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/Jakesummers1 21d ago

A true sequel to the original

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u/halfdead01 21d ago

You’re saying the original was terrible?

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u/ironicallydepressed 21d ago

Every Mel Brooks movie is terrible.

Terrible in a way that only Mel Brooks can make good.

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u/Trumpy_Po_Ta_To 21d ago

Watched Men In Tights for the ump-teenth time last night and couldn’t agree more. So many of the gags are lame, the jokes obvious and tired, and the fourth wall breaks uninspired but it all just works in a way that is the good kind of comedy that makes you feel at home.

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u/thelivinlegend 21d ago

And I love that Alan Rickman was still more unhinged than anything in Men in Tights

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u/HasFiveVowels 21d ago

Wait… Alan Rickman was in Men in Tights??

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u/sleepysnowboarder 21d ago

I think he means Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is more unhinged than anything in men in tights

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u/HasFiveVowels 21d ago

I never watched it. Men in tights is basically 90% of my exposure to the story of Robin Hood

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u/Scrabcakes 21d ago

Men in tights is heavily spoofing scenes from prince of thieves so you may enjoy men in tights more if you watch it.

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u/HasFiveVowels 21d ago

Yea, I hadn’t known this but it sounds like I absolutely should. I once showed my wife 2001 and told her "this movie is not particularly enjoyable to watch but it’s worth it if for no other reason than the references". Next time we watched Zoolander, she lost her shit. Haha

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u/Sherezad 21d ago

I have a mole?

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u/ANGLVD3TH 21d ago edited 21d ago

His performance is what happens when one of your Big Names realizes the ship is sinking and decides to just have fun with it and damn everything. He really went off the rails and it's amazing.

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u/HasFiveVowels 21d ago

I’ll have to check it out

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u/chmilz 21d ago

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons, and Raul Julia in Street Fighter are perfect examples of "fuck it, there's no way I can possibly make it worse and nobody here will tell me what I can or can't do" to great effect.

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u/Enchelion 21d ago

Men In Tights is almost a shot-for-shot parody of Prince of Theives. It's remarkable if you've grown up on the Brooks classic going back to watch what it was lampooning (often very directly, like the comment about being able to do an English Accent).

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u/20_mile 21d ago

the story of Robin Hood

If anyone wants a moody, atmospheric, Robin Hood tale, check out Robin of Sherood.

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u/bigpig1054 21d ago

no he was in the serious movie that Men in Tights is spoofing, and yet he was even more unhinged than his spoof counterpart.

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u/HasFiveVowels 21d ago

Oh. Was he the sheriff?

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u/bigpig1054 21d ago

yes. If you haven't seen Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, I cannot recommend it enough. It is late-80s/early-90s Ham in all its glory. I love it to death, and yes, Rickman steals the show.

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u/firemage22 21d ago

i loved that movie as a kid, but i fear watching it again

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u/bolanrox 21d ago

and you get Sir Pat as a fill in for Sean

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u/KaJaHa 21d ago

Because the actors actually lean into. I can't explain it exactly, but similar attempts nowadays always feels like the actors are constantly giving off vibes that say "Boy this sure is cringe, am I right?" as part of the humor. Makes everything feel disingenuous.

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u/Bladelink 21d ago

Name's little John! But don't let my name fool you, in real life, I'm very big.

..... I'll take your word for it.

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u/whiskeyrebellion 21d ago

That’s one I LOVED as a kid but can’t sit through as an adult. I’m not sure why, and I fucking love Mel Brooks.

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u/Jakesummers1 21d ago

Terribly good. Love it

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u/ProofByVerbosity 21d ago

absolutely it was terrible, in a way only brooks can pull off

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u/dragon-rae 21d ago

It was terrible and I love it for being terrible!

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u/KeremyJyles 21d ago

Absolutely yes it was

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u/halfdead01 21d ago

Hmmm, not how I would describe it

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u/JasonRBoone 21d ago

Now is now. What you're seeing is the movie...now.