Last Updated on 25 March 2024
I searched far and wide for lists of best parody or spoof movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and covering all time, not just a decade. The lists were generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 32 lists. I took the 32 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 110 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 32) were:
- Airplane! (1980) – 24 lists
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) – 21 lists
- Blazing Saddles (1974) – 20 lists
- Young Frankenstein (1974) – 19 lists
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) – 19 lists
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) – 19 lists
- Hot Shots (1991) – 18 lists
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) – 17 lists
- Spaceballs (1987) – 17 lists
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – 17 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- YardBarker – 20 Dec 2022
- IMDb – Dec 2022
- BBC Maestro – 21 Nov 2022
- Chillopedia – 8 Nov 2022
- MovieWeb – 17 Sep 2022
- In Your Eyes – 18 Aug 2022
- Cinemaholic – 1 Jul 2022
- Collider – 12 Jun 2022
- Stars Insider – 12 Jun 2022
- SlashFilm – 3 Mar 2022
- Medium.com – 16 Feb 2022
- CBR.com – 30 Jan 2022
- ScreenRant – 2 May 2021
- Quirky Byte – 27 Jan 2021
- Independent (UK) – 27 Aug 2020
- Digitec.ch – 23 Jul 2020
- List Monster – 22 Apr 2020
- ScreenHub – 16 Apr 2020
- More.com – 17 Jul 2019
- Steemit – 6 Sep 2017
- MovieBabble – 1 May 2017
- The Things – 29 Apr 2017
- AV Club – 27 Jan 2016
- One Room with a View – 3 Sep 2015
- Showbiz CheatSheet – 22 Aug 2015
- Hey U Guys – 12 Nov 2013
- Men’s XP – 6 Nov 2013
- Flickchart – no date
- Rank Top Ten – no date
- ReelGood – no date
- The Top Tens – no date
- W3 Schools – no date