Spaceballs 2 has over 40 years of new Star Wars content to work with and has a golden opportunity to make the film's best joke even better. Parody movies are making a surprising comeback in the 2020s.

“Spaceballs 2” is incoming, director Mel Brooks confirmed Thursday on social media, 38 years after the original “Spaceballs” crashed onto the space-opera scene. Hey, what’s a few decades between ...