34 Facts About Parody Movies That Are Honestly Better Than the Facts They’re Parodying

These facts took some movie facts down a peg or two
34 Facts About Parody Movies That Are Honestly Better Than the Facts They’re Parodying

When a movie parody is done well, you can never really look at the movie it parodies the same way again. A part of you will always see how dumb those teens’ choices are when running from a killer. What was once some full-blown suspension of disbelief now has some full-blown disbelief.

Thanks a lot, parody movies! 

No, for real. Thank you for all the laughs. As long as there are laughs, we don’t mind that you’ve sullied some of our favorite flicks. Here are a whole bunch of random facts commemorating some great (and not-so-great) parodies…

The Original Spinal Tap Sketch

This Is Spinal Tap Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. SpinaL TGO CRACKED.COM The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show --а sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

Not Another Teen Movie

CHRIS EVANS CRACKED.COM The 2001 comedy Not Another Teen Movie was one of Chris Evans' first big film roles. Evans played the Popular Jock Jake, and barely covered himself with whipped cream and a banana long before covering himself with a shield.

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey, Jr. got an Oscar nom for lampooning Oscar bait. TROPIC THUNDER CRACKED.COM The whole point of his Kirk Lazarus character was to point o

Mr. Bigglesworth

The real name of the cat who played Mr. Bigglesworth in Austin Powers? Ted Nudegent NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dr. Evil

In group therapy, Dr. Evil explains that in his youth, he was ritualistically shaven by a Zoroastrian. AUSTIN POWERS GRACKED It sounds like he's making up nonsense for the joke, but it's a reference to Zoroastrianism - an ancient Iranian religion that actually performed ritualistic shavings.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

CRACKED.COM AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER MICHAEL CAINE THOUGHT THE MOVIE WAS SPOOFING HIM. Before agreeing to play Austin's father, Caine thought Myers was being cheeky and portraying his character from the British spy film The Ipcress File.

Source: CNN

More Leslie Nielsen

Serious actors and directors doing comedy Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! Nielsen is the archetypical serious actor becoming a comedy legend. The Naked Gun movies are all brilliant, but the real game-changer was 1980's Airplane! Before that, Nielsen was a character actor, having appeared as a heartthrob in 1956's The Forbidden Planet and a bunch of serious disaster films like 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. CRACKED.COM

Airplane!

The jokes land along with the plane. AIRPLANE CRACKED.COM Like any great comedy, Airplane's main focus is the barrage of jokes, even during the climactic crash-landing of the plane. We were somehow simultaneously on the edge of our seats and rolling in the aisles.

MacGruber

Will Forte Incredi-mops up the bad guy. MACGRUBER CRACKED.COM Under machine-gun fire, MacGruber MacGyver's his way out of trouble with an Incredi-mop... crushing the competition.

Shrek

Donkey smooth-talks the dragon. SHREK CRACKED.COM En route to rescuing Princess Fiona, Shrek and Donkey narrowly escape a castle-stomping, fire-breathing dragon who ends up falling madly in love with Donkey.

Hot Shots

A bad-ass movie needs a bad-ass parody. HOT SHOTS CRACKED.COM Parodying Top Gun, this scene has a pilot scrambling on top of a fighter jet, trying desperately to save his partner. Не tries physically holding the wing onto the plane, before it ultimately crashes.

Frank Drebin

Frank Drebin commandeers a student driver's car. THE NAKED GUN CRACKED.COM This scene puts a student driver and instructor in the middle of a high speed chase and shootout. The instructor hilariously instructs the teen to flip off a truck driver.

Shaun of the Dead

A legitimately terrifying parody. SHAUN OF THE DEAD CRACKED.COM Surrounded by zombies, David gets dragged out of the window and is gruesomely (but somehow still hilariously) disemboweled and dismembered.

Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

The Wayans brothers on the lighter side of gang culture. DON'T BE A MENACE CRACKED.COM Parodying the wave of 90s L.A gang movies, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood jokingly depicts an arms race that escalates to Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) cracking open a delivery truck to flash his nuclear warhead.

This Is Spinal Tap

Just short of bad-ass SPINAL TAP CRACKED.COM Expecting an 18 foot model of Stonehenge, Spinal Tap members were more-than disappointed when an 18 inch model arrived. This error in measurement diminished their concert's badassery, but amped up their movie's hilarity.

Chernobyl

Chernobyl is connected to Scary Movie. Craig Mazin, author of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie, created Chernobyl.

Source: IMDb

Scream

The original title for Scream was Scary Movie. CRACKED.COM The 1996 horror film would be parodied in 2000s Scary Movie, starring Anna Faris and Marlon Wayans.

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