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FILM SPOOFS DETECTED

posted 18 years ago by MoonPreacher
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Don´t know if this topic was allready made, but here are the ones I "detected":
THE GREAT ESCAPE - That´s obvious, the penguins escaping...
RETURN OF THE JEDI - Skipper doing the Jedi "you saw nothing" art
AMERICAN BEAUTY - Instead of roses Alex sees steaks falling
MATRIX RELOADED - The Penguins "protect your back while spinning around"
PLANET OF THE APES - The Liberty Statue and Alex cursing it
SPEED II CRUISER CONTROL - The ship making a 90º curve and "docking"
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS - LOL...ok, skip this one. Skip also LION KING and RACING STRIPES
CASTAWAY - You know what I mean...
THE WARRIORS - New York has probably one the best and more famous live sets in the world, so why not the metro? Who says Warriors can say a lot else...
JURASSIC PARK - Fossas (raptors) surrounding Marty and Alex as the main predator (T-Rex) appearing
HAIR - Can the policeman riding a horse be considered? (back to The Warriors )
FRIENDS (TV) - Ok, Melman is voiced by David Schwimmer, who performs the hipocondriac ( and annoying) Ross, set is New York... and so could be any Woody Allen movie...
BLACKADDER III (TV) - King Julian is just like the stupid prince regent George ( Hugh Laurie ), as Maurice is just like a more confident/less malevolent butler Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson )
ROMANCING THE STONE - The plane crashed, all crew long dead, but it´s something seen in many other movies
In reply to this post, please don´t repeat, so we can see how many spoofs there are. Thanks

[–] StepAside 18 years ago

There's also Castaway, when Alex yells at Spalding the volleyball.

[–] MoonPreacher 18 years ago

Woops, yes, Castaway! In fact I detected that but mispelled wrong the original title as "Outcast". Anyway allready fixed it, thanks

[–] markdalton1982 18 years ago

You forgot the twilight zone. When the lemurs have the meeting in the airplane, one pulls out a book that says "To Serve Lemur" and says "It's a cookbook!" Spoof of the episode "To Serve Man" from 1962.

[–] pwandmo 18 years ago

Saturday Night Fever when Marty the zebra hits the sidewalks of Manhattan.

[–] Laberoon_X 18 years ago

I also saw the whole film as being vaguely similar to lord of the flies. A group get stuck on the island and one of them turns savage. Basically the same outlines.

good evening Mr Bond...

[–] PrairieDoggin 18 years ago

Zoolander: When Alex is posing at the beginning he makes the "Blue Steel" face

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[–] Crystal (534) 5 years ago

Ditto on LOTF

[–] kaz4417 18 years ago

Great pick-up. One of my favorite Zone episodes ever. I was glad to see it in the movie....very obscure reference.

[–] astheia 18 years ago

I found one more:

Twilight zone, one of the animals on the island shows a book "how to serve..." (sorry I forgot the name of these animals.
That was an episode of the twilight zone as e.t are on earth, bring peace, and show their planet to some humans. A woman managed to translate one book they brought with (how to serve humans), and found at the end that this is a cooking book !!

[–] kevin-730 18 years ago

There was the whole CHarriots of Fire theme playing when Marty and Alex were running in slow motion on the beach. Brilliant.

[–] kristenc-1 18 years ago

After Alex has gone savage, and he's chasing Marty and about to pounce, the theme from "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" plays briefly.

[–] mfranc-1 18 years ago

Checking the credits, it was the opening fanfare for National Geographic. One of many great scenes.

[–] Blackmoon_UK 18 years ago

Born free.

"This is a pretty fast cart, so brace yourselves."

[–] ebonyruffles 18 years ago

Silence of the lambs. "We killed them & ate their livers." (penguins)

[–] sweetcolleen 18 years ago

This isn't a film spoof, per se, but after the others sing 'Happy Birthday' to Marty, ending with smelling like a monkey, the scene cuts to the monkey cages with Mason & Phil. Phil falls off his branch after smelling his finger, which is a reference to an internet passed film, commentaried by Bob Sagat. Check it out: http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/23189/

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[–] jobiejojo 18 years ago

The Mission - Alex is stuck to the cactus in a cross formation and falls over the waterfall

[–] mfranc-1 18 years ago

I want to add Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring). When Alex attacks the Fossas, its reminiscent of the prolog where flesh and blood Saron attacks the humans and elves opposing him. Alex towers above his opponents and sends them flying several at a time with each strike of his paws.

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[–] scratchnsniff_ 18 years ago

i thought i posted this already but it doesnt seem to have registered...AAAnyway can someone tell me is theres a movie referance im missing, theres a shot of the penguins standing in a blizzard of snow in the arctic, we can just see their silhouettes (spelling??) is this shot taken from another movie?!

[–] DetachedLoser_freak101 18 years ago

Somewhere on this thread someone might have posted this or something like this i'm not sure but I clicked on 'Movie Connections' on the left hand side of this page, or rather the prevoius page, and I got this:

Movie links for
Madagascar (2005)

Followed by
Madagascar 2 (2008)
Spin off
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (2005)
References
"The Twilight Zone" (1959)
"The Flintstones" (1960)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
"National Geographic Specials" (1964)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Born Free (1966)
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
"Today" (1982)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
"Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" (1989)
"Pinky and the Brain" (1995)
Ravenous (1999)
Cast Away (2000)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Spoofs
Fantasia (1940)
"The Twilight Zone" (1959)
"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" (1963)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
"The New Price Is Right" (1972)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Dune (1984)
The Mission (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Little Ghost (1997)
American Beauty (1999)
Zoolander (2001)

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[–] tessany 18 years ago

I can't believe NO ONE got this one! When they all set off to save Marty from the Foosas, Melman swings in on a vine with the tarzan yell.
Yes, that would be the many movies of TARZAN!

She had Yes-Yes in her eyes but No-Nos on her face!