Should be The Quest for More Money
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I've been saying for years it should be Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
That was the only acceptable title. How did they screw that up? Makes me have even less hope for the movie.
I'm okay with this, since Mel Brooks already found the money! Turns out, it was in his basement all along!
"The Quest for more Money" happened offscreen and the heros should complain that such an important event was only communicated through some obscure Event in a totally unrelated medium after being flabbergasted that Money for a Mission was somehow found.
“Wait, what about the money? Aren’t we supposed to be on a search for money?”
“They found the money. Didn’t you watch the title announcement video?”
“The what?”
“Was that on Fortnite?”
“Fortnite? What kind of a stupid idea is that? It was on YouTube!”
"Somehow, the money returned."
The other good alternative Rick Moranis suggested would have been
Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II
This is one of the few sequels im very okay with having.
As Mel states in the video, he found the money.
That would be wasting their title to repeat a joke they already told 40 years ago. Instead they went with something timely, poking fun at requels that don’t differentiate themselves from the original.
requels
Requels suck. We already quelled enough the first time! :)
if they repeat a joke i hope its Yoghurt presenting a flamethrower as "the thing you used to love as a kid"
Best joke in the original was the virgin alarm. I could see them pulling off a callback to that.
While that was hilarious, I must humbly - yet strongly - disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvblGCD7qM - 1m40s in when Dark Helmet throws the mic away does it for me. But my favorite joke - not the best, but my favorite - because I didn't catch it the first hundred times I saw - is also in this clip at 2m20s where Dark Helmet taps Colonel Sandurz on the chest - who looks at the hand, the camera, realizes it's coming in, and backs out of the shot. That's just.... oh man, that is like the pinnacle of the detailed thought that went into a very very silly movie.
So many movies just throw actors out there and get them to improv, and that can be great. But the sheer density of hilarity in Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstien and others… it's just a beautiful thing. When it feels like 75% of the movie is quotable. lol
So I don't disagree that the Virgin Alarm was great, but I think the above clip is ten times better. But you're allowed to reverse that rating for you, of course. Long as you and I love the movie, I'm satisfied. :)
You got me... the camera zoom reaction is a better joke. But maybe not as good a candidate for a callback!
To be brutally honest though, I didn't so much want to disagree as really to just post that clip and talk about it. LOL
Lol, more like they went with something boring and completely unimaginative. The quest for more money is a fun throwback for a movie that only exists because it's a throwback.
Like seriously. They aren't making some new IP here. It's a shameless money grab and it would be 1000x funnier if they owned it, it isn't high art my dude
Right?!
The failure to grab this 40 year old payoff makes me nervous about the new movie
Maybe that is the third one. Or it's too on the nose.
It is a joke from the first movie that the sequel would be named The Quest for More Money. This minute long video explains why they used The New One instead.
And it would've been even funnier because this movie is a blatant money grab
Spaceballs 3: The Search for the Lost Sequel
The search for more money!
Please be good please be good
Or be so bad that we can laugh at it and then forget about it (except occasionally as a joke.)
Just don't be mediocre. Nothing worse than mediocre.
I am hopeful. Apparently Josh Gad saw it in a dream, wrote it, and won over Mel Brooks
It should have been called the search for more money!
they already found the money!
Not enough! The search continues!
I feel that we definitely need a parody of all those nostalgia reboots.
Yeah that's why I think this title is pretty good actually. "it's like the old one, but it's newer" definitely seems like a jab at The Force Awakens
Fuck those movies were trash.
Yeah. I try not to think about them. I don't want my day ruined by negative thought spirals and anger...
That's what Matrix 4 was doing this somewhat
See also Jay And Silent Bob Reboot
Video from Mel Brooks about this, for the headline-only readers among us.
Spaceballs 2: AI John Candy
Doubtful; Mel is old school about cinema and John is beloved. If anything they'd mock AI.
It'll be like the new Naked gun movie where the poster had 'no AI was used in making this poster' and he clearly had an early Dall-e 3 hand generated.
It was supposed to be spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2
A French movie did that one. Brice de Nice 3: I broke the 2
It's also canon that space balls 2 is called Spaceballs 2 the search for more money
Spaceballs 3 will be called "Spaceballs: The Other One"
I'm going to head out to Blockbuster and get Spaceballs 2 on instant cassette.
Let us know when you get to this part in the movie.
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