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s0nicfan posted...

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.

Definitely. They (and the Zucker/Abrams/Zucker films) played their roles like they weren't in on the joke. Where everything after that tried to capture it, but the actors involved were doing the "wink at the camera" acting way too much.

As good as they were, I felt it started to turn with the "Hot Shots" movies. Where they almost shoehorned as many jokes as they could.