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s0nicfan posted...

I feel like something that got lost in translation with all the Mel Brooks spoofs is that movie still need to have a plot and in his movies all the characters are playing their roles completely straight. The comedy comes from the absurdity of it all. I feel like one major flaw with modern spoof movies is they're way too self-aware and expect that self-awareness to be a fair substitute for an actual story.

Yup.
Airplane, Naked Gun, Spaceballs, even Dracula Dead and Loving it had tight stories with an easy to understand plot. And the jokes almost always furthered the plot or interacted with it. They weren't just nebulous things that had no reason to except to make a joke.