Just like the best of friends, these movies see their genre’s flaws — and love them the more for it.
Galaxy Quest is a unique sci-fi movie, and one of the most beloved ever made. It is in one sense a spoof sci-fi movie: meant to be a send-up of Star Trek and similar space franchises, the plot follows an intrepid band of actors from a once-popular campy sci-fi series, now circling the drain in their acting careers.
It is that last aspect that separates it from any other sci-fi movies that it could be compared to. There are good sci-fi comedies, but precious few that are also good sci-fi genre movies at the same time. The best analogy to the unique character of Galaxy Quest, then, is not another sci-fi movie, but another genre entirely. Galaxy Quest is to sci-fi what the original Scream is to horror movies.
But just as with Galaxy Quest, Scream does not ultimately come off as a comedy, either. There are plenty of tongue-in-cheek references in both, but perhaps the most significant thing that both movies do is that they do not allow the comedy to subvert the ending. While there are plenty of jokes about classic lazy horror tropes in Scream, the ending is still terrifying and chilling.
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