Top Ten Eighties Spoofs
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Top Ten Eighties Spoofs

The eighties were a time of angst-y teens, rad clothes, and movie spoofs. Which movie's gags make you laugh hardest?

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1 Airplane!
Leslie Nielsen got a major career boost from this spoof of airplane-disaster movies likes Zero Hour and Airport. 542 936
2 The Naked Gun
Adapted from the fleeting TV series Police Squad!, this Leslie Nielsen vehicle introduced the world to the clueless detective Frank Drebin. 409 847
3 The Princess Bride
A princess named Buttercup? A prince named Humperdinck? An insidious six-fingered man? Rob Reiner turns the fairy tale upside down. 370 874
4 Spaceballs
Mel Brooks received George Lucas’s blessing in this Star Wars send-up, featuring Bill Pullman (Lone Starr) and John Candy (Barf). 360 874
5 History of the World -- Part I
With Orson Welles narrating, Mel Brooks offers his predictably hilarious take on history, from caveman times to the French Revolution. 169 735
6 This Is Spinal Tap
Christopher Guest spawned a whole new genre of spoofs with his oft-quoted and -imitated mockumentary satirizing heavy-metal bands. 46 742
7 Spies Like Us
Two bumbling government drones (Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase) try their hand at espionage -- and exceed their boss’s low expectations. 26 706
8 Little Shop of Horrors
Rick Moranis starred in this B-movie takeoff, an adaptation of a musical that was itself an adaptation of a Roger Corman flick. 12 720
9 Top Secret!
In this spy-film spoof, Val Kilmer plays a fifties rock star who performs in East Germany and, lured by love, joins the resistance. -72 664
10 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
Keenen Ivory Wayans enlisted Jim Brown and Isaac Hayes in this affectionate parody of seventies blaxploitation films. -152 656