Most parody movies have a very thin plot, swinging much harder towards pure parody than plot. There are two movies that stand out to me as great parody movies, while still having a reasonable plot of their own: The Princess Bride and Galaxy Quest. You can’t help but laugh at the inside parody jokes because they are so familiar to us from “real” movies, but the movie is still able to tell its own story. So the key to a really good parody film is to balance a real plot with parody features. I’m going to guess that the ability to come up with this perfect blend is pretty hard, other wise I would have expected that there would be a few more of them around.
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