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Spaceballs
1987
· Movie
· 96 min
C
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2866
- IMDb #1907
- Google retired #1498
- Rotten Tomatoes #2593
- Metacritic #2997
- Letterboxd #2431
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3659
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1305
- Metacritic Critics #3825
- Metacritic Audience #1375
- Criticker #1800
- Douban #1902
- Kinopoisk #3771
- AlloCiné #2875
- Trakt #1494
Every rating
46–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 46, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 50, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The greedy President Skroob sends the vain Lone Starr to rescue his kidnapped daughter from the evil Dark Helmet. This sends them on a frantic adventure through space, a spoof of popular science fiction films filled with absurd gadgets and intergalactic mishaps.
Details
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Writers
- Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Brooksfilms
- Released
- 24 June 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $22.7M
- Box office
- $38.1M
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