The cast of “Star Trek: The Original Series” had an engaging ability to make fun of themselves. It was not only about the feeling of lightness which often existed on the deck of the Starship company; It was the actors’ will to be clumsy and play widely to laugh. Even an artist as rigid as William Shatner could relax and act mad when a scene called him. This capacity for clown was fully exposed when the crew traveled over time until 1986 in San Francisco to kidnap some humpback whales in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”; Looking at Spock Learn to curse, the bones react with horror to the state of 20th century medicine, and Kirk put the movements on Catherine Hicks’ cetologist made us scream because it was so clear that the distribution spent a wonderful moment.
The casting “Star Trek” was also a game for comedy outside the universe of Gene Roddenberry. Shatner shot a Leslie Nielsen and made a mainly impassive parody of Kirk in “Airplane II: The Suite”. Walter Koenig played a Russian general named, Um, Demutri Sukitov in the son of the beach “Baywatch” Send-up “Howard Stern on the beach. And Nichelle Nichols depicts Sagan, the high priestess of Pangea in the science fiction ile” The adventures of Captain Zoom in space “.
Of all the actors of the original “Star Trek”, nobody worked harder to laugh than James Doohan. As a Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, the corporate -exasperated chief engineer of the company, Doohan, he is in a state of impunity. But he could not parody his character Scotty until he won a rather incongruous camée in a parody of Buddy cop from 1993.
James Doohan tried and failed to laugh at the loaded weapon without cheerfulness 1
When David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker perfected the form of a Joke-A-Second parody with “Airplane!,” The less talented filmmakers watched the success of this film and thought that the public appropriated with an introduction to Copycat which delivered half of the laughs. Unfortunately, they did not have the capacity to generate even a handful of belly laughs, which resulted in incredibly disastrous comedies.
One of the worst of these imitations was the 1993 “National Lampoon Weapon 1”, which took the brisable aim of “the deadly weapon” already aware of itself. With Emilio Estevez and a “pulp fiction” Samuel L. Jackson in the roles of Riggs and Murtagh, the film also included head sees without spirit to “the silence of the lambs” and “the basic instinct”, none of which was a funny distance.
An almost funny scene Frank McCrae GOOFING on his police captain as a hard time from “48 hours”. By shouting each of his lines as he tries to pour a coffee into a defective espresso machine. While the machine draws sparks, it barks from the help of Scotty. Suddenly, Doohan himself jumps behind the machine to say: “I give everything she has, captain. If I push him stronger, all will blow!”
Although it is nice to see Doohan having fun, the random cameo falls flat. By coincidence, Shatner presents himself at a given moment as an officer of the corrupt army, and his equipment is just as inspiration. As for McCrae, he would advance his “48 hours”. The role again four months later in “The Last Action Hero” by John McTiernan, who is at least sporadically hilarious.
