The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I’m curious if Lemmy has other such examples.
The Venture Bros is the only superhero adjacent anything I give a shit about. Greatest adult animation show ever. Making fun of comic books and old Hannah Barbara cartoons but better and more rich and consistent than any of them.
Star Wreck was a cool parody of Trek/B5 space sci-fi stuff while also holding up against them. (And being a 100% indie production to boot.)
JFC in this thread: People who don’t know what a parody is.
One Punch Man
‘The 3 Musketeers’ with Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed. Completely aware of how ridiculous all this nonsense is, and loving it.
Not a funny watch but I’d consider Neo Genesis Evangelion a great deconstruction of the Gundam genre.
Heathers. it was made to parody adolecent movies and its considered the mother of all adolecent movies (like, the mother of netflix-like movies.)
I’m surprised The Big Lebowski hasn’t been mentioned at all.
Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
What genre is this spoofing though? Crime/detective?
The plot of TBL is a parody of pulp detective novels particularly Raymond Chandler, which are set in LA.
The Incredibles
Watchmen too
I’ll add Kick Ass and Starship Troopers. Although very different movies I feel like they both satirize their respective genres to great dramatic effect and stand out as some of my favorites.
Starship Troopers is weird because the book went full on in embracing the military-industrial complex and was kind of shit because of it. The movie made it a parody instead and it worked great!
…then they made a few sequels that yeah were more in line with the original book but in this case is that really a good thing?Starship Troopers is peak sci-fi in that it holds up a mirror for society to see the ugly bits.
Can’t believe I had to get this far down in the thread to find Starship Troopers…I’m doing my part!
It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think Kingsman fits that description.
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It’s way weaker than the first, but… I still liked it.
Konosuba. It’s a parody of the Isekai Anime genre. And holy shit is it funny 🤌🏼.
Isekai refers to the trope in many popular anime where the main character or MC (majorly a male, also majorly either socially awkward, inept or both) either dies in the real world and somehow gets reincarnated/transported, or plays a VR game or reads a book that sucks them into that world.
These shows tend to have many recurring cliches; a harem of attractive women that all want the attention of the MC, MC being essentially OP at whatever fantasy world skill structure exists, shitloads of fan service (mostly overly sexual portrayal of the women in those worlds, but also random and long action sequences), overly complicated rules that they will somehow obey and many many more. I’ll be here all year listing each trope.
But Konosuba mocks the concept of the Isekai genre, and actively makes sure to do something that wouldn’t occur in a typical show.
What ended up happening was that in their quest to make the perfect parody, they ended up striking gold, and created one of the best Isekai shows. All because they wanted to make fun of that exact genre.
It’s not even like they “became the very thing they swore to destroy”, since the show doesn’t at all take itself too seriously…
There’s 2 seasons, a movie and a spin-off prequel that follows one of the main characters and leads upto the first episode of the main story. All of which is amazing and insanely hilarious.
100% recommended.
Hate to break it to you, but Konosuba isn’t a parody, it’s just a comedy isekai.
Hate to break it to you, but Konosuba isn’t a parody, it’s just a comedy isekai.
My initial reaction to this response.
But then I checked on Anilist:
(Idk how to add images or gifs to a comment response so I’m just gonna tell you what it says)
Tags for Konosuba: Isekai - 97% Satire - 94% Parody - 90% Primarily Female Cast - 86% Male Protagonist - 84%
Idk man. Anilist seems to think it is 94% Satire and 90% Parody.
Have you even seen what people write on anilist, MAL, etc.? Hell, even just social media in general. I don’t trust the general polulace to understand nuanced differences like that
But, are tags crowdsourced? I believe only reviews and ratings are crowdsourced. Everything else is managed by the Anilist team, right?
I checked right now, but I can’t really see an option to change the tags on a particular show… I checked on my smartphone via browser, so I might be wrong. Will check from my laptop in a bit.
Also, where did you get the information that it isn’t a parody, if not from these sites?
Crunchyroll doesn’t list it as a Parody, so you might be right. But they also don’t have Parody as a genre, so that doesn’t really hold any value.
Note: I’m having a genuine discussion. I don’t want this to seem like a debate or an argument. It’s just me and commenter OP having a normal conversation in a regular tone.
Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story
Glee. It started out as a parody of musicals and high school dramas in Season 1. Then went on to be a musical high school drama for the rest of the show.
The Simpsons started out as a parody of sitcoms and has since become the longest running sitcom.
The 1960s Batman was a campy satire of comics and itself influenced comic adaptations for decades after.
While it’s not a direct parody I think The Nice Guys used and subverts a lot of 70s buddy cop tropes.
And after rewatching that trailer I found it refreshing to see it didn’t spoil the story and didn’t have any BWAAAAAAAAAH
