Editing Spaceballs (section)

===Critical reception===
The film received mixed reviews from critics.<ref name="TNYT" /><ref name="Collider" /> [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports that 52% of 104 critics have given positive reviews and an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's consensus reads; "There's fine spoofery and amusing characters in ''Spaceballs'', though it's a far cry from Mel Brooks' peak era."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spaceballs/ | title=Spaceballs Movie Reviews, Pictures | publisher=[[IGN Entertainment]] | work=Rotten Tomatoes | access-date=April 12, 2024 | archive-date=April 27, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427043512/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spaceballs | url-status=live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] score of 46 out of 100, based on 14 reviews.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |title=Spaceballs (1987): Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/spaceballs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210230017/http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/spaceballs |archive-date=February 10, 2010 |access-date=2009-05-16 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Spaceballs" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=April 7, 2021}}</ref>

At the time of the film's release, [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, and remarked "I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept thinking I was at a revival&nbsp;... it should have been made several years ago, before our appetite for ''Star Wars'' satires had been completely exhausted."<ref>{{cite news |date=June 24, 1987 |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |author1-link=Roger Ebert |title=Spaceballs |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/spaceballs-1987 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013012557/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19870624%2FREVIEWS%2F706240301%2F1023 |url-status=live |access-date=May 4, 2022 }}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying that there were "just enough funny visual gags to recommend this wildly uneven film".<ref name="Siskel">{{cite news|last=Siskel|first=Gene|author-link=Gene Siskel|title=Flick of Week: Kubrick's 'Jacket' full of raw irony|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-06-26-8702170188-story.html|date=June 26, 1987|access-date=January 23, 2023}}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' said that the film was a misguided parody and not very funny.<ref>{{cite web |date=31 December 1985|author1=<!-- Staff author(s); no by-line--> |title=Spaceballs |url=https://variety.com/1986/film/reviews/spaceballs-1200427111/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] }}</ref>

The film won Worst Picture at the [[1987 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Winners Database |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1987/1987st.htm |website=The Envelope at LA Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815213631/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1987/1987st.htm |archive-date=August 15, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=18 September 2021 }}</ref>