Released in 1987, Spaceballs assembled some of the biggest names in comedy including John Candy, Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, and Joan Rivers, and blasted them into a galaxy far, far away as they embarked on a farcical parody of the original Star Wars trilogy. Full of slapstick sight-gags and intergalactic puns, no one was safe from the parodying of director and co-writer Mel Brooks who took aim at Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Transformers, and more.