By the time Army of Darkness turns into a retread of Jason and the Argonauts, featuring an army of fighting skeletons, the film has fallen into a ditch between parody and spectacle ".

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.

The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s.

It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

" The Curtain Dress ", from the Carol Burnett Show worn in the Gone with the Wind ( film ) | Gone with the Wind ( film ) parody, " Went with the Wind " ( 1976 ).

Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

) In this film, a movie director played by Ichikawa is shooting Kuroi Hyaku-ichi-nin no Onna ( a hundred and one dark women ), a parody of Ten Dark Women.

The film is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U. S. president Richard Nixon.

French Marxist film makers, such as Jean-Luc Godard, would employ radical editing and choice of subject matter, as well as subversive parody, to heighten class consciousness and promote Marxist ideas.

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Mad has since relaxed its requirements, and while the U. S. version still eschews overt profanity, the magazine generally poses no objections to more provocative content such as the Swedish edition's 1999 parody of the film Fucking Åmål.

The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s.

Fox re-released it around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, but again it drew small audiences.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.

Tom Thumb ( 1732 ) had introduced a parody of operatic plots and Walpole by focusing on a mythical kingdom where the queen would fall in love with an absurd character, but Carey goes much further by having the Queen fall in love with an absurd character and then walk away with two unrelated and unmotivated characters while, at the same time, having the king die due to vanity.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

"), " The Simpsons " ( Episode: " Co-Dependent's Day "), as well as the parody Star Wars episodes of Robot Chicken, in which Best reprised the role in voice-over form.

episode " Star Koopa ", being a spoof of Star Wars, also had its own parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi called Obi-Wan Toadi.

The 1998 Animaniacs episode " Star Warners ", which spoofed Star Wars, featured Slappy Squirrel portraying a parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi as " Slappy Wanna Nappy ".

In the 1977 Star Wars parody Hardware Wars, Obi-Wan is parodied by the character " Augie Ben Doggie ".

Its plot and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films.

His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).

* Barf ( Barfolomew ) is an obvious parody of Star Wars Wookiees and more specifically Chewbacca.

Helmet is the commander of the Spaceballs ' " Imperious Forces " ( a parody of the Imperial Forces in Star Wars, as well as the Imperious Leader from Battlestar Galactica ).

* Colonel Sandurz is a parody of the leading Imperial Officers from Star Wars, such as Veers and Piett or Moff Jerjerrod.

Most likely, he could be the parody of Grand Moff Tarkin since he was partnered with Darth Vader in the first Star Wars film, as Colonel Sandurz is with Dark Helmet.

Many critics agreed that, while it was funny, doing a Star Wars parody ten years after the original film had been released seemed slightly pointless.

In the film's climax, he reappears to bring the Blue Monkey diamond to the ACME satellite, but is thwarted by Bugs ( who he duels in a parody of Obi Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ) and Daffy ( who arrives as Duck Dodgers to save Bugs after he is exhausted from the battle ), resulting in Marvin trapped in a bubble floating through space.

In this segment, Adam and Joe used 1980s Star Wars action figures to parody current British TV shows.

The Monstars make a cameo in the Pinky and the Brain / Animaniacs episode " Star Warners " ( a parody of Star Wars ).

He occasionally wanders into other skits, usually while eating a sandwich, and often doesn't realize that the skits aren't real ( such as thinking that he had wandered into space while entering the set of a Star Wars parody ).

* Jediism, In 2001 following an Internet campaign, the fictional Star Wars " religion " Jedi became a parody religion in several Commonwealth countries as 1. 5 % of the New Zealand and 0. 7 % of the UK population stated their religion as Jedi in the official census ( see Jedi census ).

* In the Family Guy episode Blue Harvest, a parody of the first Star Wars film, Chevy Chase and Beverly D ' Angelo reprised their roles from National Lampoon's Vacation, in a cameo as Clark and Ellen Griswold.

The gag continued in " It's a Trap ," the series ' parody of " Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ," as Stewie, an analogue for Darth Vader, seduces Chris, the analogue for Luke Skywalker, into a lightsaber duel by mocking Green's career, or lack thereof.

* A special, hour-long Star Wars themed episode of the animated television series Family Guy entitled " Blue Harvest " is a parody of the original film, A New Hope, and not Return of the Jedi.

A very fast scrolling text at the beginning of the third series ( a parody of the Star Wars opening crawl ) explains that Kryten smashed the space-bike into an asteroid.

Fallon also hosted the 2005 MTV Movie Awards and played Anakin Skywalker in comedic parody of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Siths Mustafar scene, in which Anakin and Padme have their last conversation.