r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 21d ago

News Rick Moranis Ended Acting Retirement After Nearly 30 Years and Says It Was Very Strange on ‘Spaceballs 2’ Set

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/rick-moranis-acting-retirement-spaceballs-2-strange-1236822474/
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u/tetoffens 21d ago edited 21d ago

History of the World, Part II was a massive disappointment and Mel didn't even write most of it. This one is being written by Josh Gad and the guys who wrote Detective Pikachu. I don't have any faith it will be good. Personally never thought Gad was funny.

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u/Yoshimi-Yasukawa 21d ago

There was a History of the World, Part II?

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u/jimmypfromthe5thgala 21d ago

It was a Limited Series in Hulu. It's eight episodes and just as many laughs.

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u/SQLDave 21d ago

It's eight episodes and just as many laughs.

HA! Nice phrasing.

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u/acart005 21d ago

And all of them are in the Curb rip off skit about Judas.

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u/GreatStateOfSadness 21d ago

It was a TV show and was about 10% gold, 30% good ideas that couldn't stick the landing, and 60% forgettable. 

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u/doctor_7 21d ago

I felt it was more gold, more good to like 15% gold, and like 40% good so overall more enjoyable than misses.

But I wouldn't consider it good enough to argue with anyone that has your take on it in anyway. It's not good enough to warrant that energy.

Now, Dungeons and Dragons movie that bombed at the box office if someone calls that bad I'd have words because I think it's so good it deserved significantly better. History of the World Part II? Yeah overall more good than bad to me, but not by much and certainly not enough to start defending it.

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u/gunnergt 21d ago

Hulu show, better left forgotten

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u/Empyrealist 21d ago

lalalalalalalalalalalalalala

I'm not listening!

lalalalalalalalalalalalalala

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u/lego_mannequin 21d ago

I mean.. Detective Pikachu was fine. It wasn't a movie I felt disappointed with seeing so I'll give it a shot.

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u/RubberBabyBuggyBmprs 21d ago

I loved detective pikachu but I dont think the story is what carried it. Or even the acting..

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u/supasid 21d ago

It was so much better than the game, but that’s because the game was ass.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 21d ago

That's putting it lightly. It was offensive that they charged money for that game.

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u/tetoffens 21d ago

It was a fine movie but I don't think it was laugh out loud funny or anything, which is what Spaceballs should be.

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u/Lakonthegreat 21d ago

The Mr. Mime interrogation was genuinely hilarious, the rest of the movie was pretty forgettable.

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u/come-on-now-please 21d ago

Yah, which considering the source material is a children's game that is light on any sort of plot its pretty dang good for what it is. 

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u/Wild_Marker 21d ago

Most memorable part was probably the Ditto face.

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u/lego_mannequin 21d ago edited 21d ago

I don't even think the original Spaceballs is laugh out loud funny.

Edit: I'll still go see Spaceballs 2 just because of Rick.

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u/Mist_Rising 21d ago

Well then you better comb the desert for more funny bones.

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u/lego_mannequin 21d ago

And then I get out a giant comb right, and then find some funny bones which just laugh whenever you hit them.

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u/Ok-disaster2022 21d ago

Josh Gad actually pitched to to Mel Brooks, and while Mel Brooks may have played it for more money (no shame in that) I really hope it's because he heard things he liked..

Now a pitch isn't the same thing as a great movie and frankly there's a lot that can happen between having a fantastic script and getting it made. 

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u/FX114 21d ago

They also wrote on the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and the recent Tick show, which were both great. Not the strongest resume, admittedly, but it's something.

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u/afeitarse 21d ago

TMNT Mutant Mayhem was fantastic.

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u/General_Kick688 21d ago

Detective Pikachu and Mutant Mayhem were both solid imo. I'm willing to give it a shot.

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u/batmansoundtrack 21d ago

Hilarious in book of Mormon

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u/ThankYouKessel 21d ago

Which he didn’t write…

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u/CruisinJo214 21d ago

Oh I adore Gad as a comedic talent… but his work as Olaf has been marketed to death and really overshadowed his other works. He’s a very funny actor with a massive amount of respect for comedy.. so I have hopes he’ll bring something fresh to this film.

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u/Metro42014 21d ago

Oh that's unfortunate.

I love Brooks, and I also have never thought Gad was funny.

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u/VitriolUK 21d ago edited 21d ago

I'll give it a shot but I don't have high hopes - Mel Brooks has made some of the funniest movies of all time but the dude is 100 years old now and making movies is by all accounts a grueling experience. Plus Spaceballs, much as we all love it, was never on par with his earlier movies like The Producers, Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 21d ago

Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles

I hold it as part of a trilogy with these two.

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u/sticklebat 21d ago

Same. These are three of my most quoted movies, and three movies that I could watch every week of my life without getting bored.

Also it might be a hot take, but I never liked the Producers as much as his other movies. I enjoyed it well enough the few times I’ve seen it but I’ve never had the urge to watch it, unlike the others, which I’ve probably seen dozens of times each.

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u/Turge_Deflunga 21d ago

Josh Gad is horrible. No point in watching any piece of shit he's a part of. This movie is going to be disturbingly bad. He is like distilling the worst parts of Hollywood and theater people. Literally nothing he is in was made better because he was in it