After all these films, the gags got sillier, some might even say tasteless, and in the case of "Jane Austen's Mafia!", just plain stupid. Magoo", Nielsen became the King of Serious Actors turning to comedy. Between "Spy Hard" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", even playing "Mr. Leslie Nielsen got in the custom of playing serious looking men who were actually much less serious. After the gut-busting "Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots!" films (some better than others) came "Loaded Weapon", "Fatal Instinct" and even "Repossessed!", the disastrous spoof of "The Exorcist". By the time all the former serious actors got together to show they knew how to provide a silly laugh for "Airplane!", the genre was perfected, and even to this day, just the sight of Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in their earlier films can bring on hysterical laughter.įast forward two decades. Mel Brooks brought back the genre years later, spoofing Gothic horror and westerns Even Alfred Hitchcock got a good ribbing. Prior to the fast-moving gags of "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun", there was the film version of the Broadway farce "Hellzapoppin'" where the gags flew faster than the stuffed stork with a baby over its audiences head. Every archetype of film has had a day as a victim of polite ridicule over the years from westerns, horror movies, disaster flicks, and even the big musical. Movies have been spoofed by themselves since the early days of Hollywood. Reviewed by mark.waltz 1 / 10 How to destroy a film genre in one easy lesson. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?-Julian Reischl So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. In a donkey's, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see.
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