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The Road To Ruin: Spaceballs (1987)

The Road To Ruin: Spaceballs (1987)

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Listen to the fourth episode of an six part mini-series where movies that were disastrous are explored. Spaceballs is now considered a top tier comedy, and THE Star Wars parody. But when it was released in 1987, it fell well short of predictions for a new Mel Brooks comedy. And yet, it managed to enter the lexicon and become Mel Brooks most profitable movie on video.

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