Originally, New World reportedly planned to re-write the dialogue in order to turn the film into a tongue-in-cheek comedy ( à la What's Up, Tiger Lily?

* The 2009 Blu-ray edition of the film includes a tongue-in-cheek trivia commentary called " Galactopedia.

( This quip is obviously tongue-in-cheek as the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not made until seven years later in 1961 and thus the title would not have been seen by him on a Leicester Square cinema marquee in 1954.

A feature-length, tongue-in-cheek version of the 1950s horror movie genre, this film was made by an all-amateur production team of writers, actors, and crew.

According to Roger Ebert's tongue-in-cheek Glossary of Movie Terms, the Down Under Rule " No film set in Australia is allowed to use the word Australia in its title where " Down Under " is an acceptable alternative.

* A tongue-in-cheek reference to Fanny Hill appears in the 1968 David Niven, Lola Albright film The Impossible Years.

The first film made for the Kinetoscope, and apparently the first motion picture ever produced on photographic film in the United States, may have been shot at this time ( there is an unresolved debate over whether it was made in June 1889 or November 1890 ); known as Monkeyshines, No. 1, it shows an employee of the lab in an apparently tongue-in-cheek display of physical dexterity.

With the candidacies of a few celebrities and many regular Californians, the entire affair became a joke to some ( there were tongue-in-cheek references to Schwarzenegger's role within the Science Fiction film Total Recall ) as well as an " only-in-California " event.

Maltin actually made a tongue-in-cheek appearance in Gremlins 2, repeating his criticisms of the original on film, as an in-joke, before being throttled by the creatures ; he later gave the second film a more positive rating, three out of four stars.

* The Pyrates ( 1983 ), a tongue-in-cheek novel incorporating all the possible buccaneer film plots into one.

Although one of Hitchcock's few true comedies ( though most of his films had some element of tongue-in-cheek or macabre humor ), the film was a box office disappointment.

It was used in the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship ( or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating ) ( 1947 ), which also contained the term, and Lifemanship titles in his series of tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this.

Moreover, Sirota suggests that " the tongue-in-cheek flavor of the film suggests Carpenter is using the Burton character to deliberately ridicule American hubris " and that the ending shot of the monster coming out of hiding in the back of Jack's truck " could be the world taking revenge on that hubris.

The orchestra started as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble but became a cultural phenomenon over the following ten years, with concerts, record albums, a film and a hit single.

For the film, she was required to shave her head, an event that was featured in a tongue-in-cheek behind-the-scenes featurette titled Bald.

In 1994, Droge released Necktie Second, his debut album which featured the tongue-in-cheek " If You Don't Love Me ( I'll Kill Myself )" ( which also appeared on the soundtrack to the film, Dumb and Dumber ), as well as " Sunspot Stopwatch " and " So I am Over You ".

As Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin ( 1997 ) was critically panned for being too jokey and tongue-in-cheek, The Crow brought in a new realm of violence absent in previous popular superhero films targeted at younger audiences and bridging a gap to the more modern action film.

In keeping with the tongue-in-cheek “ desert ” theme, each local chapter of the society is called a “ tent ,” and each is named after a Laurel and Hardy film.

The film is not often seen nowadays, but continues with generally negative reviews with critics from Rotten Tomatoes noting the film as, " highly entertaining but practically incomprehensible " and as an " unsatisfactory early tongue-in-cheek comedy / suspense yarn ".

Another notable film for the studio was Baby Face Morgan, a tongue-in-cheek gangster epic with Mary Carlisle, Robert Armstrong and Richard Cromwell, directed by German emigre Arthur Dreifuss.

Despite never achieving true film stardom, Moore made headlines with several publicity stunts, notably a five minute kiss on live Chicago television in 1954 and her tongue-in-cheek pledge to one day run for Governor of Louisiana, having been very briefly married in 1944 to Palmer Long, the youngest son of Louisiana kingmaker Huey Long.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

His first European film, A King in New York ( 1957 ), was also a political satire that openly parodied the HUAC.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a three star rating ( out of four ) describing it as " a fairly sophisticated satire.

Infused with the surrealistic satire that characterized the young Fellini ’ s work at Marc ’ Aurelio, the film ridiculed a crusader against vice who goes insane trying to censor a billboard of Anita Ekberg espousing the virtues of milk.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

The film contains themes of religious satire that were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy and protests from some religious groups.

In his view, " As a satire on religion, this film might well be considered a rather slight production.

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

* Underground ( 1995 film ), a satire by Emir Kusturica

The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.

After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers ( 1988 ), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention.

The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction ; analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption.

" The literary critic and author Wayne C. Booth concludes that the film resists any one interpretation: " Beauty cannot be adequately summarized as ' here is a satire on what's wrong with American life '; that plays down the celebration of beauty.

Jim and Jim, the Burnhams ' other neighbors, are a satire of " gay bourgeois coupledom ", who " in the numbing sameness " that the film criticizes in heterosexual couples.

Lombard's final film, " To Be or Not to Be " ( 1942 ), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death.

The phrase appears in the 2009 British black comedy satire film, In The Loop.

Ebert's reviews can clash with the overall reception of movies, as evidenced by his one-star review of the celebrated 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet (" marred by sophomoric satire and cheap shots ... in a way, Lynch's behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character ").

His 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, on the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, has been viewed by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

On the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, the film has been seen by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

A pastiche is a work of art, literature, film, music or architecture that openly imitates the work of a previous artist, sometimes with the intent of satire.

* Reefer Madness ( musical ), a 1998 musical satire of the 1936 film, or the title song

The film is a satire of the conflict between art and commerce as well as the gap between the privileged and the impoverished.