Parody film

A parody film is a comedy that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches,^[1][2][3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the genre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office.^[4] Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films.

Examples

1900s

• The Little Train Robbery (1905)

1910s

• Help! Help! (1912)
• The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
• Teddy at the Throttle (1917)

1920s

• Mud and Sand (1922)
• Three Ages (1923)
• Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)
• Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925)

1930s

• I Want to Be a Boarder (1937)

1940s

• You Nazty Spy! (1940)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
• It's a Great Feeling (1949)

1950s

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
• The Court Jester (1956)

1960s

• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Carry On Cleo (1964)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• Help! (1965)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
• Carry On Screaming! (1966)
• Our Man Flint (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• The Ambushers (1967)
• The Producers (1968)
• The Dove (1968)
• Zuckerkandl (1968)

1970s

• Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Carry On Dick (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Flesh Gordon (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• The Groove Tube (1974)
• Dark Star (1974)
• Vampira (1974)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
• Love and Death (1975)
• Once Upon a Girl (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
• The Black Bird (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Murder By Death (1976)
• Queen Kong (1976)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
• American Raspberry (1977)
• Hardware Wars (1977)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Piranha (1978)
• Life of Brian (1979)

1980s

• Galaxina (1980)^[5]
• Wholly Moses! (1980)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
• The Private Eyes (1980)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• Student Bodies (1981)
• Saturday the 14th (1981)
• Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
• The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Young Doctors in Love (1982)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Police Squad! (TV series) (1982)
• Pandemonium (1982)
• Wacko (1982)
• Zapped! (1982)
• The Man With Two Brains (1983)
• Bullshot (1983)
• Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit (1983)
• Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
• Johnny Dangerously (1984)
• Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
• Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984)
• Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
• When Nature Calls (1985)
• Clue (1985)
• Radioactive Dreams (1985)
• Eat and Run (1986)
• Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
• Reform School Girls (1986)
• Fresno (TV miniseries) (1986)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Back to the Beach (1987)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Dragnet (1987)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Love at Stake (1987)
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
• UHF (1989)
• Ricky 1 (1989)
• Disorganized Crime (1989)
• Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
• Transylvania Twist (1989)

1990s

• A Man Called Sarge (1990)
• Repossessed (1990)
• Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
• Mob Boss (1990)
• Zapped Again! (1990)
• The Freshman (1990)
• If Looks Could Kill (1991)
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
• Hot Shots! (1991)
• Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
• Evil Toons (1992)
• Carry On Columbus (1992)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
• CB4 (1993)
• The Naked Truth (1993)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Freaked (1993)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
• Blankman (1994)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
• Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995)
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
• Spy Hard (1996)
• High School High (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• Wrongfully Accused (1998)
• Plump Fiction (1998)
• Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Bowfinger (1999)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
• The Woman Chaser (1999)

2000s

• 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• Shrek (2001)
• Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
• Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist (2002)
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Reality Kills (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Down with Love (2003)
• G-Sale (2003)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
• Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Freak Out (2004)
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Club Dread (2004)
• The Producers (2005)
• My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
• Date Movie (2006)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
• Borat (2006)
• Bikini Bloodbath (2006)
• Man of the Year (2006)
• Epic Movie (2007)^[6]
• Farce of the Penguins (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Comebacks (2007)^[6]
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)^[6]
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• The Onion Movie (2008)
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
• An American Carol (2008)
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• Extreme Movie (2008)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)
• The World Is Hot Enough (2008)
• A.R.O.G. (2008)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Dance Flick (2009)
• Not Another Not Another Movie (2009)
• Transylmania (2009)
• Stan Helsing (2009)
• Land Of The Lost (2009)
• Spanish Movie (2009)
• Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
• Alien Trespass (2009)

2010s

• MacGruber (2010)
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010)
• Shrek Forever After (2010)
• I Am Virgin (2010)
• Easy A (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• Puss in Boots (2011)
• 11/11/11 (2011)
• Breaking Wind (2012)
• Casa de Mi Padre (2012)
• The Dictator (2012)
• Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos (2012)
• Evil Head (2012)
• Saturday Morning Mystery (2012)
• Movie 43 (2013)
• The Starving Games (2013)
• A Haunted House (2013)
• The World's End (2013)
• Scary Movie 5 (2013)^[7]
• 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
• Inappropriate Comedy (2013)
• Not Another Celebrity Movie (2013)
• Teen Beach Movie (2013)
• A Haunted House 2 (2014)
• The Hungover Games (2014)
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
• Reality TV Movie (2014)^[8]
• A Haunted House 3 (2015)
• Main Hoon Rajinikanth Later renamed as Main Hoon (Part-Time) Killer (2015)
• Screwing Wall Street (2015)^[9]
• Spy (2015)
• Superfast! (2015)
• The Walking Deceased (2015)^[10]
• Who the F#@K Took My Daughter? (2015)

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