Spaceballs: 2002 Mutie Awards
Mutant Reviewers From Hell is a cult movie review site and every year they give out awards on a variety of topics. This year, Spaceballs was a proud recipient of an award. The whole article can be found here. The relevant Spaceballs entry is below.
The Best Parody category set out to elect a satire, farce or straight-out blatant parody of a film or film genre.
This was another category that had a primarily two-film race. Although they jockied for first and second, Mel Brook's sci-fi spoof Spaceballs came away the clear victor. Harping largely on Star Wars for material, Spaceballs also lampooned everything from Star Trek to Aliens to Planet of the Apes. Good to know an eighties flick can still win the hearts of the masses.
Speaking of which, the late 70s/early 80s movie Airplane! garnered a respectable 27% of the votes, as many readers considered this the first and best of the parody genre. In a distant third was the spy spoof Austin Powers, and in an even distant...er fourth was the sly slasher satire Scream.
Final Tally:
1. Spaceballs (33% of votes)
2. Airplane (27%)
3. Austin Powers (12%)
4. Scream (8%)