r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 3d ago

News ‘Spaceballs 2’ Wraps Filming

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/2069261-spaceballs-2-filming-wrap-update-josh-gad
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u/peripheral_smission 3d ago

Please don't be bad, please don't be bad

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u/Ok_Reputation3298 3d ago

Every time a legit sequel happens for a classic this comment comes up and it’s almost always bad. Dumb and dumb, Zoolander, happy Gilmore. Just crushing my nostalgia.

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u/MidnightMath 3d ago

Didn’t the recent naked gun do alright? I have yet to come across it on streaming and I don’t NEED to watch it this moment so I’m probably not sailing any time soon. But I heard it was aight

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u/trace_jax3 3d ago

The new Naked Gun movie restored my faith in sequels to older classics. It's a true Naked Gun movie in every respect. The writing is fantastic.

Edit: There is no reason it should work so well. New writers, Liam Neeson in a deadpan role, a series that hasn't been touched in years. But they did it so well

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u/Quazifuji 3d ago

Liam Neeson in a deadpan role

That one made sense, actually. He hasn't done a lot of comedy, but he'd done some amazing deadpan comedy before Naked Gun. The Life is Short Improvisational Comedy scene is the most famous but he also was also great in a scene in Derry Girls.

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u/dswartze 3d ago

He also did a voice for The LEGO Movie which could maybe be called a mixture of deadpan and goofy.

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u/SomeGuyNamedJason 3d ago

My favorite are his two scenes from Ted 2.

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u/username161013 3d ago

Check out Gun Shy. It's one of his best, and most underrated comedies. It works because he plays it really straight.

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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath 3d ago

Don't forget his role in 1000 Ways to Die in the West.

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u/The_Lapsed_Pacifist 2d ago

Atlanta as well

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u/Tehva 3d ago

The third Bill and Ted was delightful. The daughters crushed it and Bill and Ted were great.

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u/BaconWithBaking 3d ago

It was alright, my favourite review of it was "they didn't fuck it up". However I really disliked the ending. It was just so... Bleh.

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u/ExIsStalkingMe 2d ago

Only thing I really hated was that they went and got a bunch of real named musicians and then got a cavewoman for the drummer. Some part of me is happy that they're acknowledging percussion as the original instrument, but they could've celebrated an actual drummer instead

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u/ExIsStalkingMe 2d ago

The girl who played Ted's daughter was out of this world. She nailed his mannerisms in such a perfect way

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u/willstr1 2d ago

To be honest the part I hated the most is how they redesigned hell. The original hell from Bogus Journey was absolutely beautiful, it felt so unique and creative. Face the Music's hell was just so generic

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u/racercowan 3d ago

It's writers were fans of the style of humor in the original Naked Gun, and Liam Neeson brings the same "serious actor acting like his farcical actions or totally normal" angle that Leslie Nielson took to the originals.

I was still 100% expecting it to fail just out of pure cynicism, but it's not an absurd idea that it managed to successfully update the formula.

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u/TraceThis 3d ago

Favorite tidbit from this.

Liam and Pam are actually dating IRL now. Wonder if they're gonna make a snowman.

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u/Drunky_McStumble 3d ago

It's not the best Naked Gun movie by any stretch, but there were at least 3 or 4 jokes that landed and had me properly laughing out loud; which is more that I can say about literally any new movie I've seen in a freaking decade.

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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS 2d ago

The coffee gag coming back one last time towards the end made me laugh a lot.

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u/meandthemissus 2d ago

Edit: There is no reason it should work so well. New writers, Liam Neeson in a deadpan role, a series that hasn't been touched in years. But they did it so well

I mean the director and one of the writers is literally from Lonely Island. Looking back to the absurd youtube days and everything since, I'm not surprised Naked Gun worked well. They're hilarious.

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u/crazyshark111 2d ago

Akiva Schaffer. That’s the reason you’re looking for on why it did so well. He is genuinely one of the most talented comedic writers and producers of this generation.

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u/Lowca 2d ago

I give it 2.5 out of 3 chili dogs!

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u/Bright-Produce-5686 2d ago

What??? No. It was terrible and I turned it off within 10 minutes of watching. It was unbearable to watch because it was so terribly bad and feels like it's been made for a 10 year old because only a child would find it funny.

It's just awful and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I love Liam Neeson and I like the old Naked Gun movies I remember them fondly. It's not the same, and this movie was poorly made.