Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Spoof: 182 Films to Buy & Rent
- Stella Street (2003)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. John Sessions, Phil Cornwell
- Worthy bigscreen spinoff of the British TV sketch series, in which two actors (Sessions and Cornwell) impersonate a range of Hollywood stars (Michael…
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Mike Myers, Robert Wagner, Michael York…
- The third and probably final instalment of the wildly successful spy spoof series sets itself in the garish 1970s, but having run clean out of…
- Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002)
- Dir. Jeff Lau
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Faye Wong, Chen Chang…
- Silly only in appearance, this in–joke laden spoof of Hong Kong cinema stapes – Chinese opera, gender–bending romances, and…
- Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)
- Feat. Peter Graves
- A sci–fi spoof that re–dubs minor 50's B–movie "Killer from Space" with new dialogue and a plot concerning a military scheme to…
- Tongan Ninja (2002)
- Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Jemaine Clement, Sam Manu, Linda Tseng
- An engagingly cheesy martial–arts parody that derives freshness from its unique South Pacific flavour and the comic ingenuity of its star and…
- Undercover Brother (2002)
- Dir. Malcolm D Lee
Feat. Ed Griffin, Billy Dee Williams
- Over–played but sometimes hilarious spoof of blaxploitation movies and honky pop culture too, the super–elastic Eddie Griffin plays…
- Fun at the Funeral Parlour (TV Series) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Rhys Thomas, William Thomas, Alex Lowe…
- A BBC comedy series set around the Swansea area of South Wales, where four funeral directors, all known as Thomas, are running a funeral business…
- Kung Pow - Enter the Fist (2001)
- Dir. Steve Oedekerk
Feat. Steve Oedekerk, Jim Carrey
- This novelty kung–fu parody has a couple of great set pieces, a fistful of chucklers and whole lotta filler, comprised of intercut and…
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The (2001)
- Dir. Larry Blamire
Feat. Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Larry Blamire
- A dead–on Z–grade movie parody that replicates the wooden acting, dumb dialogue, sloppy editing and cheap props of 50's "creature…
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- Dir. Joel Gallen
Feat. Chris Evans, Chyler Leigh, Molly Ringwald…
- Yes, yet another teen movie. Assembling the cliches, obligatory scenes and stereotypes of the US High–School comedy, this trots out an…