Parody film

A parody film is a comedy that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches, 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. Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films.

Examples

1940s

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)^{[citation needed]}

1950s

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)^{[citation needed]}
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)^{[citation needed]}
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)^{[citation needed]}

1960s

• Carry On Spying (1964)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)^{[citation needed]}
• Help! (1965)^{[citation needed]}
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)^{[citation needed]}
• Casino Royale (1967)

1970s

• Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Carry On Dick (1974)^{[citation needed]}
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Flesh Gordon (1974)^{[citation needed]}
• Young Frankenstein (1974)^{[citation needed]}
• The Groove Tube (1974)
• Love and Death (1975)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Once Upon a Girl (1975)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Murder By Death (1976)^{[citation needed]}
• Queen Kong (1976)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977)^{[citation needed]}
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)^{[citation needed]}
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)^{[citation needed]}
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

1980s

• Galaxina (1980)
• Wholly Moses! (1980)
• Airplane! (1980)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• Student Bodies (1981)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Young Doctors in Love (1982)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
• The Man With Two Brains (1983)
• Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)^{[citation needed]}
• Johnny Dangerously (1984)^{[citation needed]}
• Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)^{[citation needed]}
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
• When Nature Calls (1985)^{[citation needed]}
• Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
• Reform School Girls (1986)^{[citation needed]}
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Back to the Beach (1987)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
• UHF (1989)
• Ricky 1 (1989)

1990s

• A Man Called Sarge (1990)
• Repossessed (1990)
• Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (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)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
• CB4 (1993)
• The Naked Truth (1993)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (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)
• Plump Fiction (1997)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• Wrongfully Accused (1998)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)

2000s

• 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• Shrek (2001)
• Kung Pow (2002)
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Freak Out (2004)
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
• My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
• Date Movie (2006)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• Epic Movie (2007)
• Farce of the Penguins (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Comebacks (2007)
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• The Onion Movie (2008)
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
• An American Carol (2008)
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• Extreme Movie (2008)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Dance Flick (2009)
• Not Another Not Another Movie (2009)
• Stan Helsing (2009)
• El Agente 00-P2 (2009)
• Land Of The Lost (2009)
• Spanish Movie (2009)

2010s

• MacGruber (2010)
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• Parody Movie (2011)
• Breaking Wind (2011)
• Casa de Mi Padre (2012)
• The Dictator (2012)
• The Biggest Movie Of All Time 3D (2012)
• Movie 43 (2013)
• The Starving Games (2013)
• A Haunted House (2013)
• The World's End (2013)
• Scary Movie 5 (2013)
• 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
• Inappropriate Comedy (2013)
• Not Another Celebrity Movie (2013)