Parody film

A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. The main conventions for this genre are:

• Sarcasm
• Huge stereotyping, e.g., the dumb blonde, the hardboiled detective
• Mocking other films or scenes from serious movies
• Violence with no consequence for characters' actions
• Obvious meanings to characters' actions/names
• Joking around with no purpose
• Random scenes, many layers

Examples

1940s

• My Favorite Brunette (1947)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (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)

1960s

• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• Carry On Cleo (1964)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• Carry On Screaming! (1966)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• The Producers (1968)

1970s

• Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Carry On Dick (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Dark Star (1974)
• Flesh Gordon (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• The Groove Tube (1974)
• Love and Death (1975)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Murder By Death (1976)
• Queen Kong (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

1980s

• Airplane! (1980)
• The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
• Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• When Nature Calls (1985)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Throw Momma from the Train (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)
• Young Einstein (1989)

1990s

• Repossessed (1990)
• Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
• Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
• Hot Shots! (1991)
• Evil Toons (1992)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
• CB4 (1993)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• 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)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
• Spy Hard (1996)
• High School High (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• George of the Jungle (1997)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (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)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Team America: World Police (2004)
• My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
• The Producers (2005)
• Date Movie (2006)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Farce of the Penguins (2007)
• Epic Movie (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Comebacks (2007)
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)
• South Park: Imaginationland (2008)
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• The Onion Movie (2008)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• An American Carol (2008)
• Dance Flick (2009)
• Black Dynamite (2009)