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The film has received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that, as of 2020, 56% of critics have given positive reviews based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 6.39/10. The site's consensus reads; "There's fine spoofery and amusing characters in Spaceballs, though it's a far cry from Mel Brooks' peak era."[16] At another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 46%, based on 14 reviews.[17] Many critics agreed that, while it was funny, doing a Star Wars parody ten years after the original film had been released seemed pointless. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, and remarked "I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept thinking I was at a revivalit should have been made several years ago, before our appetite for Star Wars satires had been completely exhausted."[18]
The film won Worst Picture at the 1987 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.[19]