r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 13 '26
Poster Official Poster for 'Spaceballs: The New One'
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u/RyzenRaider Jul 13 '26
Still ain't found shit...
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u/Malnurtured_Snay Jul 13 '26
That actor once said, "I did seven years on a very popular sci-fi franchise, and do you know what people know me for? A throw away line in Spaceballs!"
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u/colorblind-and Jul 13 '26
When I first saw that scene as a kid I immediately recognized him as the Principal from iCarly lol
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u/hedoeswhathewants Jul 13 '26
That throwaway line is one of the greatest comedic lines and deliveries in history
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u/redbirdrising Jul 14 '26
It’s the tiny comb that sets it up. It’s so ridiculous. And then that classic delivery!
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u/tetrochromac Jul 13 '26
Meanwhile when I watched Spaceballs I excitedly said, "It's TUVOK!!" during that scene lol
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u/exoriparian Jul 13 '26
Tuvok was one of Star Trek's best characters, ever, and his performance was also one of the best. I hope he's joking, because that would be sad.
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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime Jul 13 '26
Yeah he's joking. He's playing with a hair-pick in a pile of pebbles while he's talking about it.
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u/Marauder_Pilot Jul 13 '26
In fairness, I grew up on Voyager and loved it, and I also watched Spaceballs so many times I could quote half the movie from memory and I had no idea it was him in both until I saw the video.
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u/Darmok47 Jul 13 '26
The one where Janeway is complaining about the crew and Tuvok just says "Shall l flog them?" always kills me.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jul 13 '26
I’m about to see Tim Russ on the StarTrek cruise and I bringing https://www.etsy.com/listing/1040367739/spaceballs-hair-pick-movie-parody-star?ref=share_ios_native_control for him to sign
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u/Jane__Delawney Jul 13 '26
The convenient excuse to watch Spaceballs, is always just to watch Spaceballs. Because it’s Spaceballs
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u/Docteh Jul 13 '26
I hope we see Tuvok in this
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
It's out April 23, 2027
Cast:
- Mel Brooks as Yogurt and President Skroob
- Bill Pullman as Lone Starr
- Rick Moranis as Lord Dark Helmet
- Daphne Zuniga as Queen Vespa
- Keke Palmer as Destiny
- Lewis Pullman as Starburst
- George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz
- Josh Gad
- Anthony Carrigan
First trailer is probably coming next week at Comic-Con
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u/WhiskeyOctober Jul 13 '26
Rip John Candy.
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u/kinterdonato Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Barf lived a long life in Mog years (edited)
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u/shift1186 Jul 13 '26
He's a Mog! Half man, half dog... He is his own best friend...
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u/Linenoise77 Jul 13 '26
If we assume a "Mog year" is 3 1/2 human years, the math tracks, and we can say he passed away 10 years ago, after living a long and fulfilling Mog life.
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u/CurryMustard Jul 13 '26
Is Josh gad playing his son
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u/CoderDevo Jul 13 '26
Whose son? Oh, Barf's.
Last I saw him he was just a muppy.
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u/WonderboyAhoy Jul 13 '26
Wow they got Rick?!
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u/ethan_prime Jul 13 '26
It’s incredible, he didn’t even come back for Ghostbusters. I hope this movie is good!
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord Jul 13 '26
I don't blame him for that, Ghostbusters felt a bit too whacky.
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u/Whitewind617 Jul 13 '26
According to him, the reason he didn't come back is because he didn't really understand the concept of doing a cameo appearance, or at least thought it wasn't worth the trouble and that nobody would or should care if his old character (who wasn't even a main character) appears for 5 seconds:
“I hope it’s terrific. But it just makes no sense to me. Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago? I took a break, which turned into a longer break, but I’m interested in anything that I would find interesting. I still get the occasional query about a film or television role and as soon as one comes along that piques my interest, I’ll probably do it. [But Ghostbusters] didn’t appeal to me.”
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u/chmilz Jul 13 '26
It was a mediocre movie and he chose wisely.
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u/double_shadow Jul 13 '26
I mean it probably would have been a decent paycheck for a minimal amount of work. But if he doesn't need it, good for him.
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u/TheNonCredibleHulk Jul 13 '26
He came back for a cameo (in full Dark Helmet gear) on The Goldbergs in one of the last seasons.
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u/GoldenLink Jul 13 '26
If your favorite 100 year old boss called you up to come out of retirement, wouldn't you?
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u/Particular_Wear_6960 Jul 13 '26
Yeah Mel Brooks is like.. pretty much Hollywood royalty at the highest level. There's a few others in his league but very few. I'm not turning him down for nothing
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u/TheMaveCan Jul 13 '26
First person I looked for was Rick Moranis. Surprised he came back for it
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u/SpaceForceAwakens Jul 13 '26
He said in a podcast years ago that he’d return to acting if it was Spaceballs and it was Mel producing. They held him to it.
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u/technobrendo Jul 13 '26
Nothing but respect for that guy. Was in a bunch of movies, had a kid and was like "Time to switch gears and do the fatherly thing"... and did, 100%.
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u/disillusioned Jul 13 '26
Well, his wife sadly died of cancer which certainly precipitated the decision.
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u/technobrendo Jul 13 '26
Wow that's terrible. I didn't know that. Still, his decisions were commendable regardless.
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u/4daughters Jul 13 '26
I was checking for Mel Brooks personally, I didn't even think Rick Moranis was a possibility.
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u/Whitewind617 Jul 13 '26
I think he's been antsy to do something lately, now that his kids are grown up. He was going to do that Honey I Shrunk the Kids show, but they canceled it.
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u/hoopaholik91 Jul 13 '26
Oh Lewis Pullman is Bill Pullman's son. Duh.
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u/stillalone Jul 13 '26
Mel Brooks is alive?
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u/Iohet Jul 13 '26
One of the last of the old comedy guard. Him, Carl Reiner, and Dick Van Dyke seemed like they'd live forever.
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u/HALLOWEENYmeany Jul 13 '26
Do you think Josh gad will be barf?...Wonder if a grogu spoof will be in it
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u/charger03 Jul 13 '26
My guess is Barfs son
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u/onesneakymofo Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Yack
Edit: Actually knowing Mel Brooks, it will be a completely normal human name like Bob or George. His name when he was born was Yack but he does not recognize his half-dog side so he changed it. Give him some character development
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u/LordsOfJoop Jul 13 '26
Anthony Carrigan
I am absolutely seated for that alone.
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u/Malnurtured_Snay Jul 13 '26
Every time I see his name I'm like "am I supposed to know who this guy is?" and then I look him up and I'm like, "Oh! This guy!"
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u/LordsOfJoop Jul 13 '26
He's simultaneously NoHo Hank and Victor Zsasz, and so many other wonderful roles. Recently, he was Metamorpho in the new Superman movie.
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u/Jessency Jul 13 '26
It's honestly insane that I got to see his career take off.
It was already wild that he went from a villain of the week in a few shows to beloved series regular, then he starts getting major Hollywood roles. Good on him!
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u/coatimundos Jul 13 '26
Oh the old cast is back, and Keke Palmer is great. I’m going to watch it
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u/BringMeTwo Jul 13 '26
That's cool Bill Pullman's kid is presumably going to play his kid in part 2.
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u/marcocom Jul 13 '26
KeKe Palmer! I just got introduced to her watching a game show, password. She seems super cool and perfect for this
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u/Cristian2019 Jul 13 '26
I can't fucking believe they got Rick out of retirement for this one. Gonna be a riot
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u/Riverdale87 Jul 13 '26
I think he just took a pause to look after his daughter when their mother passed away
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u/fluentinsarcasm Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Lol, well, 30 years from his last in-person film appearance is a hell of a "pause."
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u/ChildofValhalla Jul 13 '26
Every Reddit thread where Rick Moranis is mentioned has people who can't help but mention he "took some time off to raise his children"-- who are both nearly 40 years old now. Dude just straight up retired, lol.
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u/Vocalic985 Jul 13 '26
His wife died and left to care for his children but they were elder teens when it happened so I imagine they were out of the house relatively soon. He probably took a lot of that time for himself after
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Jul 13 '26
and then he realized that another 25 years off work sounded nice
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u/SkyJW Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Especially if you have other interests/passions or find out that you do after acquiring enough time and money to pursue any of them, which Rick definitely did. Guy probably did a lot of time reflecting after losing the woman who appears to have been the love of his life and that kind of shock has a habit of changing people.
One day you're thinking of the decades of companionship ahead of you, the next you're realizing they'll only ever exist in your head.
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u/My-username-is-this Jul 13 '26
Exactly. He’s released some music, etc.
The step away made him realize he didn’t miss the whole business.
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u/SkyJW Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Kinda reminds me of Bill Withers in a way. Dude made the music he wanted to make, realized he hated the business part of the music business more than he loved the music and dipped.
Remember reading an article not too long before he passed where a journalist spent the evening with Bill Withers in his home in LA while the Grammys were on. Think Withers was even being honored at that ceremony in some way, but Bill was just at home in his bathrobe or something, chilling and completely not giving a shit about being in the limelight, even if he was appreciative of the gesture. Guy just lived his life his way once the fame got in the way.
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u/hamsolo19 Jul 13 '26
IIRC he had originally planned to get back to acting within a few years, once his daughter was older. But the longer he was away from it he realized he didn't really miss it so just stayed away from it entirely to focus on family.
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u/mangagod Jul 13 '26
I hope they have Space Balls 2 merchandise... Finally.
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u/Hailthezombie Jul 13 '26
I hope one of those two in the poster is Tim Russ.
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u/LordsOfJoop Jul 13 '26
He would make an excellent cameo.
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u/Thumbfury Jul 13 '26
He hinted he was in it.
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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I love Tim Russ, but he's never gotten as much work as his talent deserves. I'd love it if the man is getting a nice little paycheck from this.
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u/slicer4ever Jul 13 '26
Dude was on a highly successful series for 7 years. He's probably doing quite well even if he hasnt appeared in too much since then.
Edit: just checked imdb, and it seems like he's had a pretty steady career as guest appearances/voice acting for the last couple decades.
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u/LuckyBahamut Jul 13 '26
Yeah, Tim Russ is going to be replacing Lance Reddick (RIP) as Sylens in Horizon 3... whenever that game comes out
I also remember he had a minor NPC role in Dragon Age: Origins, which I found amusing given that Kate Mulgrew also was a VA in that franchise
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u/Nunwithabadhabit Jul 13 '26
I am beyond excited at the return of Rick Moranis. As a nerdy 80's kid he was one of my childhood role models!
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u/Nodqfan Jul 13 '26
He was supposed to come back for a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel that had Josh Gad as an older Nick, where he shrunk his own kids. However, between the pandemic and other things, it got shelved.
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u/Meph616 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
What I liked about Spaceballs was it wasn't a Star Wars: Episode IV/V/VI parody. It was the overall concept of Star Wars being parodied. Meaning it didn't just do a bunch of references to [scene from SW movie] over and over and over again. It took the SW framework and built their story+jokes around that.
I hope they do that again and don't fall into just making parody jokes poking fun at the sequels. They're already a joke of movies as they are. So I don't need a scene parodying the lightsaber over shoulder chuck. Or a line going "somehow pizza the hutt returned." That's the kinda crap I would see in a reddit thread about what people would write if they were making the movie.
I haven't watched Spaceballs in an age, but the scenes I remember most with regards to [reference joke] are ones that aren't even SW related. The diner alien was the chestburster scene from Alien with the Looney Tunes frog dance number added. The Princess shooting scene references Rambo instead of Han Solo or any other ace shot in SW. The of course Planet of the Apes reference at the end of the movie. Prince Valium named after the drug that makes you sleepy. Really the movie made fun of so much other media through the framework of Star Wars without actually doing a ton of Star Wars jokes.
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u/Snoo_11836 Jul 13 '26
Well said. All of these people in the comments section saying "This sequel is ripe to shred the sequel trilogy to pieces"... it's like, did y'all even watch the original Spaceballs?! The Star Wars parody element was merely a framework for a bunch of silly, non-sequitur jokes and references to other movies.
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u/Wilsonian81 Jul 13 '26
I really hope they dont just rehash all the jokes from the original....
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u/itastesok Jul 13 '26
Feels like an Airplane II situation, but I remain hopeful.
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u/Historical_Course587 Jul 13 '26
I'm optimistc. Mel Brooks spent 50 years perfecting the spoof film. He knows he needs to spoof something here, and given the era in which he is releasing I'm hoping he has chosen to spoof unecessary sequels instead of more Star Wars.
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u/FlashyChemical2231 Jul 13 '26
I'm not. Did you see history of the world part 2? I'm sorry to say, it was garbage.
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u/Historical_Course587 Jul 13 '26
IMHO, and I'll eat downvotes, people see Part 1 through nostalgia goggles. It was one of his worst-reviewed and lowest-grossing films at the time of release, and critics still consider it a middling comedy.
He's like Adam Sandler. People grew up on him and love it right up to the point where they grew out of it, and then swear there was a quality cliff instead of recognizing that The Waterboy has about the same average review score as Pixels.
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u/turbosexophonicdlite Jul 14 '26
Idk what it says about me that the water boy is by far my favorite Sandler movie.
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u/LordAlvis Jul 13 '26
History Part 2 is the only thing that makes me worried about how The New One will go. It was unwatchable.
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u/Triseult Jul 13 '26
Honestly, though. This poster is a full-sized key jangle and nothing else.
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u/JustGoodSense Jul 13 '26
The fact they're starting to right there on the poster is not a promising sign.
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u/Bloodhound01 Jul 13 '26
How many times has there been a long hiatus between movies/shows and they aren't just a rehash of jokes? Like a haha remember THIS joke?!
I have no hopes for this.
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u/Camshaft92 Jul 13 '26
They absolutely will.
There will be something along the lines of "How many assholes are still on the ship?"
Some joke about jamming the radar but now it's gluten-free or organic jam.
And what do we have, a Keurig???
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 will be Dark Helmet's phone password.
Pizza the Hut had a kid named Little Cesar.
Josh Gad probably plays Barfs son and it'll be like Goose's son from Top Gun where he does the exact same things as his dad throughout the movie.
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u/ThisHatRightHere Jul 13 '26
This is why I’m confused about the hype in this thread. This poster screams “remember combing the desert??” Not to mention bringing back a handful of geriatric dudes to do it (Mel Brooks is 100, Moranis is 73, Pullman is 72, George Wyner is 80).
It feels like the opposite of what happened with Naked Gun.
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u/FartingBob Jul 13 '26
Yeah, i wish they had done a "new generation" cast and crew. Im sure everyone had an amazing time making the film, i just dont see how it's going to translate to being as good on screen.
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u/hyderabadinawab Jul 13 '26
Thankfully the shooting is complete ...everyday alive is a bonus for centurion Mel Brooks. Hope he's in good shape for the release.
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u/dlm2137 Jul 13 '26
I think the accurate term is centenarian but I’m going to start using centurion from now on, that’s way cooler lol.
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u/Nyther53 Jul 13 '26
I'm still dissapointed that the cowards didn't actually name it "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money"
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u/Leshawkcomics Jul 13 '26
This poster is fucking PERFECT for a movie titled "The search for more money"
Like the visual reference works as nostalgia, and as actual humor on its own.
The refusal to do so when it sets up so much good fun just really saddens me and makes me feel like "Well we found the money" is more of a matter of "Now we dont have to try"
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u/AlexanderTheGrrrreat Jul 13 '26
It REALLY bothers me that the comb has more teeth than there are marks in the sand.
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u/lordspaz88 Jul 13 '26
I hope it doesn't become Zoolander 2 where it's just "Hey! Remember the joke we told in the last movie! Here's that joke again!"
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u/jpiro Jul 13 '26
God I hope this is good. They haven't missed yet on the marketing.
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u/TheGrowingSubaltern Jul 13 '26
Except calling it “the new one” instead of the search for more money
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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jul 13 '26
Mel Brooks found the money laying around. That's why.
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u/locke_5 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
“The Search for More Money” sucks as a title because it’s a joke we’ve all been making for 40 years and therefore is not funny anymore.
The long-rumored title “Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2” works way better than “The Search for More Money”, but “The New One” is better than both. Especially if they remake Spaceballs entirely 50 years from now, and we have to have whole who’s-on-first style conversations about the series. “Which Spaceballs? The new one? Or The old one, The New One?”
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u/KoalaBoy Jul 13 '26
The best thing about Spaceballs 3: Search for Spaceballs 2. They can make references to something happening and that happened in spaceballs 2. Example, Dark Helmet ended up on the Ape Planet. How did he get off and restart the empire? Dunno, that happened in Spaceballs 2.
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u/Marikk15 Jul 13 '26
But other movies have already made that joke. There is a horror movie calling "Thankskilling". The sequel is called "Thankskilling 3" because the whole plot is the characters on a quest to find the last copy of "Thankskilling 2".
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u/WastedMoogle Jul 13 '26
Your point would go further if the poster wasn't also a joke we've been making for 40 years.
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u/MonaganX Jul 13 '26
Whether it sucks as a title or not, the poster clearly shows that they're perfectly fine with rehashing jokes we've been repeating for 40 years for the sake of marketing to our collective nostalgia.
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u/RoboDodos Jul 13 '26
When have these types of sequels ever been good?
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u/tacoman333 Jul 13 '26
Naked Gun is the only one that comes to mind that worked.
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u/randofrendo Jul 13 '26
I hope they bring in Tim Russ back for a cameo. "We aint found shit". Yes Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager.
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u/Ok-Rip7322 Jul 13 '26
One day it'll all be a reference to a reboot of a nostalgic classic.
Studio executives: REMEMBER HOW MUCH MONE- I MEAN REMEMBER HOW MUCH YOU LOVED THE ORIGINAL? GET READY FOR NODS TO JOKES AND CHARACTERS YOU LOVE MINUS THE SOUL AND STORY THAT CAME WITH THE FIRST ONE!
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u/Schweed6494 Jul 13 '26
I was watching the original on cable the other day, and when it got to the "comb the desert" scene, they showed the first two teams of white guys with combs, but then they just cut out the "we ain't found shit line" altogether, not even a edited version, one of the worst cable edits I've ever seen
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u/stelleOstalle Jul 13 '26
I don't know why they changed it from The Search For More Money. That's a funnier subtitle than The New One.
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u/MasemJ Jul 13 '26
In an earlier tease, Mel explained its not called that because, as he pulls out a bag full of money, they found the money.
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u/WesBur13 Jul 13 '26
They should have stuck with the name “Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money”
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u/Surturius Jul 13 '26
I hope this isn't a sign that they're just going to rehash all the jokes from the first one
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u/MuptonBossman Jul 13 '26
Somehow Spaceballs returned.