![]() If there’s any measure of just how big the spoof biz was at the time, it’s Loaded Weapon 1. Starting with February’s National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, continuing with summer titles Hot Shots! Part Deux and Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and wrapping up in the fall with Fatal Instinct, 1993 was both the spoofiest year in modern film history, and a sign of how unsustainable the form would become. Thanks to the twin spoof successes of The Naked Gun 2 ½ and Hot Shots! back in 1991, ’93 saw a full crop of comedies imitating the gag-a-minute stylings of Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, the team behind Airplane! and the Naked Gun series. Further down the charts, however, are a gaggle of movies uniting all of those elements into a single unlikely trend: In 1993, the spoof movie was booming.
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