John C Reily plays the titular role and models his character on the lines of Jimmy Hendrix, Ray Charles and Johnny Cash. The script is co-written by Jude Apatow, hence loads of sexual innuendos are thrown in for laughs. It follows the textbook path of a musician’s life in movies, going topsy turvy through the glamourising world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It follows the life and times of a musician and parodies the way biopics are made, referencing every cliches that one finds in a biopic. Walk Hard’ is pure fun, as it pokes into Hollywood’s affinity with musical biopics. Read More: Best Mother’s Day Movies of All Time 12. It’s the sequel to ‘Hot Shots !’ and lampoons the ‘Rambo’ movies, Casablanca, Terminator, Apocalypse Now and what not! Starring Charlie Sheen as Topper Hurley, ‘Hot Shots Part Deux!’ is a laugh riot. Bizarre yet outrageously funny, that’s Hot Shots Part Deux! for ya. Hardly anyone would have thought of making a Terminator-esque sequence of Saddam Hussein and a pup getting fused together ! Or for that matter, a Rambo inspired hostage situation where the protagonist, on finding he’s out of bullets, fires a hen at the adversary, instantly killing him. Read More: Best French New Wave Films of All Time 13. Two scenes stand out in particular- one where English disrobes the Archbishop of Canterbury to prove he’s a fake and two where a surveillance video shows him to be dancing at a Abba song. Rowan Atkinson played the titular role with élan and brought the house down with his antics. Spoofing the pants off the atypical spy movies-with-gadgets style of film making, ‘Johnny English’ was written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who had prior experience of writing two Bond films. When the top agent of the British secret service dies in the line of action and remaining agents get blown away at his funeral, the responsibility of the crown and its monarchy comes to the most inept agent – Johnny English. Read More: Best Single Movies of All Time 14. It opened the gates to many such movies, which unfortunately never could reach the success levels of ‘Scary Movie’. Opened to mixed reviews, it went on to become one of the most successful spoof movies. The premise was simple, take up the basic plot point of a masked murderer slashing teenagers, bomb it with numerous double meaning innuendoes, with cross referencing numerous film cliches and voila ! you’ve made a film. The Wayans brothers just did that with ‘Scary Movie’. When movies like ‘Scream’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ brought in fans of the teen slasher genre to the theatres, it was natural that somebody will take up the task to lampoon the films. You can also watch some of these spoof movies on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime. We, at The Cinemaholic, bring you the list of top spoof movies ever, based on actual movies.
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