There hasn't been a good spoof or parody movie in years. When was the last time you remembered a spoof film getting a wide release that also had a strong critical following? Even 'Anchorman ...

There are few movies as quotable as the 1980 disaster-movie parody Airplane! — and of the movie’s many memorable gags, arguably the most enduring is the moment when reluctant pilot Ted Striker ...

"Airplane!" director David Zucker takes issue with what people are offended by, and says he wouldn't be able to make his hit movie today in the same way he did in the 1980s.

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While that movie is great, it was an appetizer for what Airplane! brought to us. ZAZ as they were known, were not the first people to parody or spoof famous movies.

Rather, Airplane! is a parody of the glut of disaster movies that flooded cinemas throughout the 1970s, but draws most explicitly from the 1957 film Zero Hour!, using the same central aerospace ...

Airplane! (1980) The daddy of parody movies, this disaster spoof packs a breathtaking number of laughs into its 88 minutes – and part of what makes it so hilarious is the utterly deadpan ...

Scary Movie at 20: How the comedy franchise killed off the spoof film By the end of the 2010s, parody had become shorthand for cheap gags and scatalogical riffs, rapidly metastasising much the way ...

Zucker is now offering a Master Class program that teaches the fundamentals of spoof comedy, of which the man who co-directed and wrote films like “Airplane,” “Scary Movie 3,” and ... a class of how ...

As the beloved Airport movies parody ‘Airplane!’ turns 40, Graeme Ross counts down the best spoof films of all time ...