From start to finish, I cracked up with laughter at this film. Several times I had to stop the video tape and run to the bath-room, I was so close to wetting myself with laughter. I saw it as a continuous string of spoofs on all that makes movies bad, with cameos lifted straight from the absolute worst schtick from "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Gods Must Be Crazy," "Dr Strangelove," "Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," and a host of others.
!!!!!!SPOILER WARNING!!!!!! Just one example- the final scene with the drunken Texan fighter pilot crashing his plane into the Mother Ship to save the whole world is an almost exact mirror image of the final scene of Dr Strangelove, with the crazy Texan bomber pilot riding his nuclear bomb down to the destruction of the whole world.
This film out-Brooksed Mel Brooks by a light year. Anyone who didn't like the film must have never been to the movies before in their lives. If you're one of those viewers who didn't see this as consummate comedy, try watching it again and see how many other movies you can identify - you'll die laughing like I nearly did.
!!!!!!SPOILER WARNING!!!!!! Just one example- the final scene with the drunken Texan fighter pilot crashing his plane into the Mother Ship to save the whole world is an almost exact mirror image of the final scene of Dr Strangelove, with the crazy Texan bomber pilot riding his nuclear bomb down to the destruction of the whole world.
This film out-Brooksed Mel Brooks by a light year. Anyone who didn't like the film must have never been to the movies before in their lives. If you're one of those viewers who didn't see this as consummate comedy, try watching it again and see how many other movies you can identify - you'll die laughing like I nearly did.