The spin-off series of the space balls that you did not know

Amazon and MGM have revealed that a sequel to “Spaceballs” is officially moving forward, with Mel Brooks, on the cusp of their 99th birthday, repeating their yogurt role of their original parody movie of 1987. This news meets very anxious anticipation, since fans of the “space balls” (many of which have backed up) years or not. The progress of the film’s progress states that since 1987, there have been numerous television programs and films of “Star Wars”, not to mention the animated Disney films, remakes of those films and prequels to those remakes. There were also, as the Teaser points out, many “Alien” and “Predator” films, several films of “Jurassic Park”, eight “Harry Potter” movies, a television program in development of those films and 36 films set in the Marvel Cinematographic Universe. But, he adds, there was only one “Space balls”.

That, however, is not entirely exact. Technically, since 1987, there have been two “space balls.” It’s just that one hangs much further than the other. Few remember the brief and perhaps poorly advised, “Spaceballs: The Animated Series”, which worked for 13 episodes in 2008 and 2009. It was issued in G4, the digital network that became better known for its report on the video game industry of the mid -2000s.

“Spaceballs: The Animated Series” brought together the members of the original cast Daphne Zuniga, Joan Rivers and Dom Deluise, who played Princess Vespa, Dot Matrix, and Pizza The Hutt, respectively, while Brooks returned to express the yogurt and President Skroob. Bill Pullman (who played Lone Starr) was replaced by Rino Romano, John Candy (who played the barf before death in 1994) was replaced by Tino Insana, George Wyner (who played Colonel Sandurz) was replaced by David Wittenberg and Rick Moranis (who had been removed for years at that point) Bradley Baker. Julianne Groassman also assumed the role of Circón de Leslie Bevis commander, but also played most of the program’s female support characters.

The show is … okay.

The cartoon “Spaceballs” tries to capture part of Brooks’ propensity for word games, low art humor and style comedy Borscht-Belt, but most of this falls into animation. Brooks could write cheap words games in his films because a talented comic actor could deliver them with a wink to the camera. In animation, especially when the non -expressive style used in “Spaceballs: The Animated Series” is used, gags are simply bad. It is a series that tries to provoke titers of a line like “we must throw the onion ring to the Fryers de Lardor.” A live comedian or maybe Mad Magazine could make it fun. “Spaceballs: The Animated Series” does not.

In addition to that, the USA Flash Animation program, so its characters move more as paper dolls than fully articulated figures. Everything looks rigid and cheap.

Meanwhile, the plots of the program are wide and silly, but that is a preparer for their comedy. “Spaceballs: The Animated Series” is also closer to the execution of “Family Guy” than to the film “Spaceballs”, anxious to falsify all popular culture and not only “Star Wars” (with some jokes aimed at franchises such as “Alien” thrown into the mixture). Rather, the cartoons of the “space balls” biased the current events and pop culture of their time, incorporating parodies of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Grand Theft Auto” and “Lord of the Rings” (as referred to above) while simultaneously nods to incidents such as the outbreak of E. coli. The show is stronger when adheres to the “star wars”. For example, it begins falsifying the trilogy of George Lucas’s prequel, revealing that Dark Helmet was originally a boy named Pannakin Crybaby.

(The dark helmet, by the way, is encouraged to look two feet high, which is a strange aesthetic choice. Rick Moranis has 5 ‘6 “; that short.)

The only piece of “Spaceballs” Canon that “The Animated Series” explicitly rewritten was the real lineage of Lone Starr. At the end of Brooks’ 1987 film it was revealed that Lone Starr was secretly a prince all his life, which allowed him to marry Princess Vespa. In “Spaceballs: The Animated Series”, however, it was revealed that its real lineage was a wrong reading of a birth certificate, resulting in their marriage to the annulled princess.

The cartoon “Spaceballs” was not well received by fans, partly due to a mysterious production delay. The program was announced in the Comic-Con de San Diego 2007, with the plan that G4 would make 13 episodes, the first of which will be released on an unknown date. In the end, however, the program would not see daylight until September 21, 2008, 16 months after it was announced for the first time. By then, the enthusiasm had decreased, and many people had stopped paying attention.

Unfortunately, the series was not terribly reviewed either. Ign gave the program a 4 of 10declaring that parodies were simple and obvious and humor was not fun. Wiring, equallyHe felt that the cartoon of “space balls” simply was missing when it was his comedy, and pointed out that the pareo of that guy had already been ruined by the most recent wave of terrible and heavy parody movies that had infected the mid -2000 “Spaceballs: The Animated Series”, stealing the thunder of the program and reflecting badly in its satire.

If the crew behind the “Spaceballs” sequel is intelligent, the film will refer to the animated spin-off of the original film. Assuming that Brooks has some voice in the matter, he would probably mention it simply to rule out it, and the nature of the film that breaks the fourth wall will allow a character will notice that “animated programs do not count.” We will have to wait and see if the Schwartz wakes up when the film reaches theaters in 2027.