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Movies that feel likeSpaceballs (1987)

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

If you loved Spaceballs, the closest films we have are The Producers (1968), Dark Star (1974) and Blazing Saddles (1974). All three share Spaceballs' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lost in America (1985).

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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Both are Mel Brooks's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: space travel

The difference: Trades the dark humor of Spaceballs for an angle of its own

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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Blazing Saddles
1974 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 89%★ 7.7western · comedy

Mel Brooks working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Spaceballs

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

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Mickey 17
2025 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 77%★ 6.7science fiction · comedy · adventureMax

Common ground: space travel

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Spaceballs does

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 60%★ 6.7adventure · comedy · science fiction

Two things both keep coming back to: galaxy and android

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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A Trip to the Moon
1902 · dir. Georges Méliès
🍅 100%★ 8.1adventure · science fiction · comedyMax

Both are built on the same subject: satire

The difference: Made in the 1900s, in a different era of the craft

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

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Galaxy Quest
1999 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 90%★ 7.4comedy · science fiction · adventureParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: space battle

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

One thread runs through both: space marine

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Another one that scratches it

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Mars Attacks!
1996 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: laser gun

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

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Brazil
1985 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 98%★ 7.8comedy · science fiction

Both land ideas and dark humor at once

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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