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Shamino posted...

Yes, but they would need to return to the original formula of spoofing a certain genre heavily and spoofing society/pop culture lightly.
This, IMO, is what dragged the spoof down. Spoofs in 80's and into the 90's were on point, but somewhere they lost connection, and just started to make fun of everything, even if it made little sense in the movie.

I feel like something that got lost in translation with all the Mel Brooks spoofs is that movie still need to have a plot and in his movies all the characters are playing their roles completely straight. The comedy comes from the absurdity of it all. I feel like one major flaw with modern spoof movies is they're way too self-aware and expect that self-awareness to be a fair substitute for an actual story.