Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money

It all hinges on if Mel Brooks can talk Rick Moranis into doing the film.

Moranis wasn't prepared to come back to Ghostbusters even if Bill Murray and Harold Ramis had been involved. I doubt he'll come back for this.

A shame. He's an extremely talented comic actor. No Dark Helmet = no Spaceballs.

I saw Mel Brooks on Bill Maher two weeks ago. Man, he's getting old.

Screw all that shit, Moranis need to do Streets of Fire II: The Re-Return of Ellen Aim!

Coincidentally, I'm seeing The Blasters on Wednesday.

While we're at it, who should be the new Maug, half man, half dog, he's his own best friend. No more John Candy.

John Goodman?

Moranis is back acting, and we're getting History of the World Part 2, so ...

Okay, but what if Spaceballs 2 was instead a parody of the sequel SW trilogy this time?

(I would've gone with the prequels, but I feel like that horse was beaten into glue by the time Red Letter Media did their first prequel review 15 years ago)

Hmm, who would be parody-Kylo?

I'm thinking Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Parody-Rey, that's trickier...

Cole Sprouse.

Google it.

Jughead?!?!


Oh, do you mean for Kylo? Cuz that would work.

No, google "Cole Sprouse Daisy Ridley".

Ahhh.

I think having Adam Driver play the parody Kylo Ren would be great. He's already shown he isn't afraid to parody his role with those SNL Undercover Boss skits.

Meanwhile, Bill Pulman these days could pull off "Old Han" OR Palpatine. Not that Spaceballs had Palps. He could be the new Spaceball President though.

Oooooh, it's Bill Paxton who's dead.

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I better see Lonestar visiting Barf's grave.

To parody the sequel trilogy, it seems like Barf would be alive and Lonestar would be dead.

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I imagine Lewis Pullman playing an emo-goth Kylo Ren pastiche, enthralled to Dark Helmet as part of some new evil scheme, and Lone Star has to be brought from self-exile (a la Luke Skywalker) to save the day. Sprinkle in lots of Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Avatar, The Matrix, etc. references. Oh, and lots of jabs at the prequel and sequel trilogies. I'd make the lead a young Rey-like character and call her Marysue Wokepander or somesuch.

I'm not super-optimistic about this, but I loved the original so I'll give it a shot!

I don't think I will understand why Rey gets attacked as a Mary Sue, while Luke and innumerable heroes that are just good at everything don't take that flak.

As Mary Sues go, Rey isn't too bad.

But she does manage to defeat Kylo Ren--a powerful Force user who has trained for years--despite never having held a light saber before. (granted, he had been wounded)

And she knows how to repair the Millennium Falcon better than Han Solo. (granted, she might have had plenty of time to learn about that ship while growing up)

And she even defeats Palpatine basically by summoning up belief in her own power. (granted, she dies in the act)

Luke, on the other hand, takes three films to grow to full.power and has a number of setbacks and failures along the way.

"The Last Jedi" is devoted to Rey's fuckups.

The fact that you have to do all these caveats is telling.

But also, Rey doesn't defeat Kylo. In Force Awakens, she fights him to a standstill in the first film AFTER he had been shot by Chewie's bowcaster of death, and AFTER non-force user Finn had fought with him.

Han had never been shown to be particularly good at keeping the Falcon in good repair. And as you said, Rey had ample opportunity to learn about that ship and others while acting as a scavenger. Plus, the Force lets Force users take on tasks that non-Force users might find daunting.

Rey took three films to grow to full power and had a number of setbacks and failures along the way, including the aforementioned DYING. Indeed, many of Rey's accomplishments come because Kylo propped her up. Without his help, it's debatebale at best that she would have fought off the Knights of Ren or defeated Snoke.

That there are in-universe justifications doesn't change the dramatic effect. But, again, I said I didn't think she was all that terrible a Mary Sue.

She physically overpowers Ren, throws him off balance, slashes his face, knocks him to the ground, and stands over him. She won.

The only reason Kylo Ren survived is that a fissure opened up separating them.

Maybe, but it still plays like "I can fix your ship better than you can!" It isn't so much that she did it, it was the way it was presented.

By the end of TFA, Rey has not only defeated Kylo Ren in a light saber duel, she's used the Jedi Mind Trick, repelled Ren's mental probe, and telekinetically grabbed a light saber. She had no Kenobi, no Yoda, no training, no real awareness of the Force. She's just that talented!!!

She is a little Mary Sue-ish to me. But if you disagree, fine. I still like Rey as a character, though most of the ST was complete shit (though reasonably entertaining).