Friendo: “Who asked for this? A half-century ago Mel Brooks has made some hilarious comedies — The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein. Spaceballs wasn’t in that league. Then again Brooks acknowledges this in the teaser.”
HE: “Spaceballs was a genre parody that arrived too late — Mad magazine mixed with Carol Burnett-level spoofery, but with an emphasis on silly meh. And yet I still chuckle at Brooks’ “Yogurt”.
Friendo: “Spaceballs has one good joke. Brooks gets teleported, Star Trek-style, and comes out the other side with his head on backwards. He looks down and says, ‘How come nobody told me my ass was so big?!’