I thought it was funny and the plot and parodying were clever.

Reviews of the television broadcast were highly positive, praising its close attention to detail in parodying the original film.

This parodying of the heroine is not baseless.

These movies usually have low budgets, yet achieve commercial success by parodying, making fun of or borrowing elements from high-end Hollywood blockbuster movies.

Phill Jupitus, who is among those parodying the coalition in Big Society, says: 'This is like 30 years ago all over again'.

The music video features the band as a mock football team (parodying the Green Bay Packers with Green Day).

Self-mocking theatre: Frequent parodying of tragedy is an aspect of Old Comedy that modern audiences find difficult to understand.

He appeared in Scary Movie 4 in 2006 parodying Tim Robbins's character from War of the Worlds.

Too much revivalist rock was just affectionate pastiche - fans re-creating, if not unconsciously parodying, the sounds in their collections of fabulously obscure 60's disks.

Other versions The original song was adapted in a commercial for noodles with then-beginning idol Yuki Kudo parodying the 1983 movie shortly after its release.

In September 2011, her lawyers asked RedState to take down posts that were parodying her commentary, as they made her appear buffoonish and arrogant.

Armour's books are typically written in a style parodying dull academic tomes, with many footnotes (funny in themselves), fake bibliographies, quiz sections and glossaries.

Protesters wore clothes parodying those of Donald Trump and displayed a banner reading 'Plane Stupid Golf Open 2009'.

They are bright and cheerful in tone, modest in scale, casually pieced together from wood, fabric and wire and seemingly bent on parodying masculine excess.

After Harrison's death in 1916, Bierce wrote an obituary parodying his literary style and mocking his alleged use of his wealth to buy approval:

For a reader of "Rough Beast," it doesn't help matters when Mr. Olcott attempts to write elegant sentences; the strain shows, and they end by parodying themselves.

The single was pressed on blue vinyl with a label parodying X Records, the label that released The Beach Boys' first single, "Surfin'".

The film has a few sequences parodying elements of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but is not focused on parodying Odyssey.

In a parodying, theatrical gesture, Switters pounded his right fist against his left breast and exclaimed, "So it shall be written, so it shall be done!"

Aside from parodying Ichigo in a promo for Bleach, both characters were featured together in an audio CD depicting a conversation between the two Jump leads.

MOR Spokesman Wang Yongping gained particular notoriety online, with netizens parodying his various statements and attacking his credibility and character.

And NOFX knows these conventions so well - it has been making music for 12 years - that it has no qualms about parodying itself and the punk milieu.

This exposure lead to them being parodied by the mainstream media with the TV series Spitting Image parodying the track as "No Lyrics" due to its repetitive lyrical content.

Ja'mie is a 16-year-old girl and has sponsored 85 Sudanese children for Global Vision (a fictional organisation parodying World Vision International), which gave her the National Record.

A Super Deformed Gundam short parodying the Wacky Races featured villain Yazan Gable as the stand-in for Dastardly.

But the parody has taken on a life of its own.

This play seems to have become a parody of itself.

He seemed almost a parody of his father, despite the difference in looks.

Then it will be someone else's turn to write a parody.

He was important in the development of the parody mass.

The show was written as a parody of its own series.

It's hard to figure out whether this is a parody or the real thing.

Other than that, it is a parody of what a high school should be.

In a parody of her own voice, she said, That is not enough.

Never has there been a moment when the American political system stood less in need of parody.

Each couple was like a parody of the other, their attitudes much the same.

It might help, too, if the museum parody were developed further.

This is taken to be a parody of modern political groups.

And he was an object of parody in American culture.

So, you really can make a joke out of a parody.

The group is a parody of the political party system in Britain.

Popular music has used parody in a variety of ways.

This is also the case with the parody of an activity.

What was once regarded as parody is now often a story in the morning news.

It's always a lot better when they come on and do a bit of self parody.

But the words seemed an ominous parody of real family life.

This is a parody, but not a very gross one.

I'd love to see the parody of this media disaster.

Parodies of events in the news are played during the show.

The field hospital is a nightmare, a parody of its own name.

The show has also been parodied in many different forms.

This goal has been parodied a large number of times.

The book's title also parodies the name of the movie.

Several television shows parodied the dance in the early 60s.

Ridiculous at times, she parodied herself better than anyone else could.

"They all live in fear of parodying themselves," he said.

Others parodied the video, usually showing men in a similar situation.

Often the celebrities who are parodied come to laugh at themselves.

The painting has been parodied many times in political cartoons.

Her overwhelming social media presence is often parodied in the series.

"No act or song is above being parodied," he said.

He whispered to Burden, as if parodying the other's words.

Already during May's lifetime he has been copied or parodied.

Perhaps they are parodying the people who buy them.

And he has spent the last two decades parodying the major modern art movements.

It's no longer parodied since the main show was cancelled.

The line has been used and parodied numerous times in various works of fiction.

For example, in the game show sketch which parodied Jeopardy!

The story is frequently parodied on television shows and comic books.

The series was parodied many times over the years.

Also, the political commercials that have been featured across the nation were parodied.

It has since influenced, and been parodied by, several subsequent television series.

A brand new musical parodying the novel is in development.

These critics are sometimes parodied or made fun of in the cartoon.

This parodies the concept of the cat being both dead and alive.