Filmmakers
- Christopher Guest has made several mockumentaries of his own, such as Best in Show (dog shows), Waiting for Guffman (local theater), A Mighty Wind (1960's folk music) and For Your Consideration (Oscar Bait films), all of which can be considered affectionate towards their (rather daft) characters.
- Larry Blamire's films are all affectionate parodies of B horror movies from different eras.
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and The Lost Skeleton Returns Again are for the 50's and 60's
- Dark and Stormy Night is for the 40's
- Trail Of The Screaming Forehead is for the 70's
- Tales From The Pub shorts are parodying The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits (1963).
- Mel Brooks is a Grand Master of this trope. He has made it clear that he only parodies movies and genres he likes. In fact Mel Brooks has said that he could never do a parody of, for instance, slasher flicks because he can only work with genres he respects. Brooks was even awarded the AFI Achievement Award
by none other than Martin Scorsese for being "a great filmmaker just for laughs"- Blazing Saddles is an affectionate parody of Westerns, so affectionate that the singer of the theme song, Frankie Laine, did not know it was a parody. They added the whip sounds into the music later.
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It was an Affectionate Parody of past Dracula films.
- High Anxiety for Alfred Hitchcock films.
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights for the Robin Hood legends
- Silent Movie, anyone?
- Spaceballs parodied Star Wars and included what were very good special effects for the time. The care put into his movies makes them affectionate parodies instead of cheap spoofs.
- The Twelve Chairs is an Affectionate Parody of the novel
- Young Frankenstein is an Affectionate Parody of the 30's Universal Frankenstein movies. It is so well done in that style that it is possible to miss that it was a parody. Points to the director for recreating the way the films from back in the day were made; gigantic, multi-story sets (like the lab, that managed to all fit onto screen, with its huge staircase), extended takes done without cuts, as well as just the slow and deliberate way the actors move and talk.
- Phil Lord & Chris Miller have made a career of making wildly imaginative, manic, meta-modernist parody films.
- Their 21 Jump Street adaptation parodies every trope of the original series while also making fun of reboots and high-school teen movies from the 80s and present time. It's sequel'' parodies college movies and action blockbuster sequels.
- Strays (2023) is a hard R-rated parody of "talking animal adventure" children's movies like Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
- The Wayans Family have made a name for themselves in making Rapid-Fire Comedy parodies.
- The 1994 comedy, Blankman satirizes superhero/crime fighter vigilantes in a manner much like the the Adam West Batman (1966) TV series (lampshaded in-movie).
- Dance Flick parodies "Dance Movies" in the vein of Save the Last Dance, You Got Served (2004), Fame, Flashdance, as well as music-related features like Hairspray and the biopic Ray.
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is an Affectionate Parody of "Growing Up In The Hood" movies, sometimes parodying whole scenes (and bringing over actors) from the movies it references.
- Fifty Shades Of Black: A blatant parody of Fifty Shades of Grey.
- A Haunted House and its sequel parody supernatural Found Footage horror like the Paranormal Activity films, The Devil Inside as well as Ed and Lorraine Warren from The Conjuring Universe.
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka: A send-up of every Blaxploitation trademark imaginable.
- The first two Scary Movie films were produced by the Wayans' before David Zucker (see below) made the next two. The first film parodied Slasher Movies remaking the basic plots of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer (even though Scream was already a deconstructive satire of slasher films) while the second film spoofed supernatural horror like The Haunting (1999), Poltergeist (1982), etc.
- Woody Allen has parodied genres like 1970s sci-fi (Sleeper) and epic historical romances (Love and Death). One section of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* but were afraid to ask parodies 1960s Italian films, and another 1940s-50s mad scientist films (complete with John Carradine as the scientist in question).
- Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker famously reinvented the Slapstick Parody genre for a generation to the point where everyone thought that any spoof movie that came out was made by them.
- Airplane! is an Affectionate Parody of disaster movies, especially the movie Zero Hour! (with which it shared entire lines of dialogue, such as "The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner"), and one of the best Deconstructions you'll ever see. It's now very, very hard to play the "disaster on a plane" trope straight— and impossible to watch Zero Hour! (1957) or read the Arthur Hailey book Airplane is based on (it's from the guy who wrote Airport) without going into hysterics from visualizing all the jokes in Airplane.
- BASEketball spoofs inspirational sports movies.
- Hot Shots! Parts 1 and Deux parody military action films, Top Gun and Rambo in particular.
- Jane Austen's Mafia! spoofs Italian-American mafioso gangster films, particularly, The Godfather, Goodfellas and Casino.
- The Naked Gun trilogy and, by extension, Police Squad! qualify as affectionate spoofs of Police Procedurals.
Films
- 21 Jump Street and its sequel not only parody its source show like crazy, but also aspects of teen movies, crime thrillers and police dramas.
- Stephen Chow's All For The Winner was a parody of Chow Yun-fat's God of Gamblers, but it was so well-received (by some reports even out-earning the original) it was tied into the series "officially" with two more sequels starring Chow and several other movies without him.
- Another Gay Movie has been described as merely "a gay American Pie" as it spoofs that basic plot with four gay teenagers vowing to lose their virginity before graduation and features cameos from many LGBT icons.
- Super Junior's film, "Attack on the Pin-Up Boys" is an Affectionate Parody of the idol culture, obsessions with passing fads, and the life of a teenager set in a High School AU. The second half of the film dips into Deconstructive Parody territory though as it becomes more introspective than the first half.
- The Austin Powers trilogy and The Second Best Secret Agent in the World are affectionate parodies of James Bond-style spy movies. Which were heavily inspired by Our Man Flint. Austin lampshades this, saying In Like Flint is his favorite movie.
- While we're on the subject, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint spoof the James Bond series films, particularly Flint's savoir faire and knowledge of esoteric subject areas.
- Back to the Beach is a parody of 1960s Annette Funicello / Frankie Avalon beach movies, starring... Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon!
- The Girl Hunt ballet in The Band Wagon lovingly parodies tropes from hardboiled and noir fiction and film, from the Femme Fatale to the Private Eye Monologue.
- The Big Lebowski affectionately parodies the works of Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep particularly, by showing what would happen if you took a standard twisty-turny Chandler-style plot and occupied the role of the hero with a lazy hippy slacker instead of the usual hard-boiled Private Detective character.
- The Brady Bunch and A Very Brady Sequel qualify. They make light of several stories and moments from the original series while still standing true as film adaptations.
- The Cabin in the Woods is both this and a deconstruction parody of horror films, with a giant Take That! towards reality tv for good measure.
- The Carry On film series were one of the first films that did parodies. In many cases, it was because the production team wanted to make a friendly rival between films that they were parodying and see what made more in the British box office.
- Carry On Cleo parodies Cleopatra, with elements from Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.
- Carry On Screaming! is a parody of Hammer Horror, featuring a parody of Frankenstein and characters that seem to be based off The Addams Family.
- Carry On Doctor is a parody of Doctor in the House.
- Carry On Henry is a parody of Anne of the Thousand Days. It was originally supposed to be named Anne Of A Thousand Lays.
- Carry On Pimpernel (also known as Don't Lose Your Head) is a parody of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- Carry On Spying was the first James Bond movie parody in movie history. Some of the production team later moved on to work on other James Bond movies.
- Carry On Up the Khyber is a parody of Zulu.
- Casa de mi Padre is an affectionate parody of latin telenovelas and grindhouse movies.
- The Cheap Detective spoofs hardboiled detectives.
- Clue, both the movie and the classic board game, affectionately parody murder mysteries.
- The Comedy Central original movie A Clusterfunke Christmas is a parody of the made-for-TV Christmas movies which aired on the Hallmark Channel.
- Cry-Baby was an Affectionate Parody of teen musical, and they made sure everyone would realize it.
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is an Affectionate Parody of film noir.
- Michael "Bully" Herbigs films Der Schuh des Manitu and its semi-sequel Traumschiff Surprise: Periode 1 parody the western genre, especially Karl May, and science fiction, especially Star Trek and Star Wars, respectively. They are also two of the most successful german films of all time and are generally considered to be Cult Classic.
- Die Hard started as both an action film and an affectionate parody of 80s action films, notably in casting Bruce Willis, who was best known before Die Hard for comedy roles. The movie ended up becoming the template for future action movies and transformed Willis into an action star. And the Die Hard movies eventually became an Affectionate Parody of themselves.
- Disney
- Enchanted was Disney's Affectionate Parody of... itself, replete with Shout Outs and and subverted tropes. Not that it didn't turn out to still be a good film (which it did).
- Disney's Flubber sends-up the Mad Scientist trope.
- Inspector Gadget (1999), like the original cartoon, parodies the Cyborg concept and is pretty much a Denser and Wackier RoboCop (1987).
- Down with Love parodied Doris Day and Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the 1950s an 60s.
- Dragnet (1987) is a parody of its non-comedic TV source material Dragnet.
- Eight Legged Freaks was an affectionate parody of monster B movies. Had the nice blend of features like the characters playing their roles without any obvious irony, the classic trope of toxic waste causing spiders to mutate, and it even had spiders acting cartoony and making cartoony noises, and yet everything was played straight.
- ElectroBabe & DynaChick is a loving (sexy) parody of sixties shows like Batman (1966) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, with cheesy and bizarre villains, Male Gaze and slow deathtraps.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once parodies a lot of Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh martial art movies in a very bonkers, over-the-top way while combining existentialist sci-fi into the mix.
- The Evil Dead series includes several subtle jabs at common horror movie tropes, but Army of Darkness is pretty much a giant, overt Affectionate Parody of Heroic Fantasy films. And it is awesome.
- Fatal Instinct parodied "Femme Fatale" noir of varying vintages, particularly, Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction (...as evidenced in the title.).
- The Fearless Vampire Killers, or, Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck is a parody of the Hammer Horror vampire films that were so popular when it was made, and it works so well that it's sometimes more suspenseful than they are. This was in itself later adapted into the stage musical Tanz Der Vampire, which includes songs mimicking various musical styles.
- The Fifth Element can be seen as straight Science Fiction flick, but works very well as a friendly parody of common action and science fiction concepts, particularly those of European sci-fi/fantasy comics.
- The 2008 film Fool's Gold is a parody of the "treasure hunting adventure" genre. The Adventurer Archaeologist is a flat broke dreamer, his ex-wife wants out after searching for years with nothing to show for it, their investors are a doddering millionaire and his vapid Spoiled Brat of a daughter, and the Loan Shark is a rapper.
- William Shatner did an Affectionate Parody of himself in a little-appreciated movie called Free Enterprise.
- Galaxy Quest is an Affectionate Parody of Star Trek, especially Star Trek: The Original Series and its stars (though with some Star Trek: The Next Generation mixed in). Notable in that numerous Star Trek actors have publicly declared their love for the movie. And not just Wil Wheaton (who has always been snarky about being Wesley Crusher); even Patrick Stewart loved it. The Other Wiki has a list of some of the actor's reactions. It is sometimes described as the best Star Trek movie ever. William Shatner apparently loved it, too, even though he's the one the movie comes closest to actually being less-than-affectionate about. Of course, Shatner's developed a pretty good sense of self-deprecating humor about his past behavior.
- The Gamers knows too much about D&D to make it a normal parody, and its jokes are mostly aimed for the same people it mocks. An example would be most of the Bard jokes in the second movie.
- The Turkish movie G.O.R.A. parodies, well, pretty much every big-budget Hollywood sci-fi movie ever made. At the beginning, the extraterrestrials are talking in English before realizing what they're doing and switching to Turkish. The prisoners on the alien ship carry lightsaber shivs. Even the main character Arif is very conscious about doing things 'right', including finding an appropriate hero costume and having his sidekicks film him as he embarks on his adventure.
- Grease was an Affectionate Parody of 1950s teen musicals, although most people don't seem to realize this.
- The Beatles film Help! was an Affectionate Parody of James Bond movies.
- High School High parodies Save Our Students films like Dangerous Minds or Stand and Deliver.
- Hobgoblins was clearly meant to be such a parody of Gremlins — an incredibly stupid idea considering that Gremlins is itself a parody, of both the "monster attacks small American town" genre of horror films and the "A Boy and His X" genre of feel-good family films.
- Hobo with a Shotgun: Of exploitation films, especially those focusing on revenge stories.
- The Korean film The Host (2006) is hard to take as anything other than an Affectionate Parody of Asian monster movies. Watched with a group of friends, the movie is hilarious.
- Hot Fuzz self consciously uses every possible cop movie trope it can, often hanging a lampshade on them, while paying tribute to those films.
- Hydrozagadka is a giggle-fest parodying just how silly the superhero genre is (complete with Clark Kenting and Cartoonish Supervillainy).
- Kingsman: The Secret Service, of Roger Moore-era James Bond films, as well as campy spy fiction in general.
- Knives Out is a parody of Whodunnit mysteries in the vein of Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Kung Fu Hustle is, of course, an Affectionate Parody to modern Wuxia Martial Arts genre.
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, Steve Oedekirk's awesome tribute to martial arts flicks.
- Loaded Weapon 1 parodies Buddy cop thrillers specifically lampooning the Lethal Weapon series, while also taking shots at The Silence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct, and more.
- Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera is an Affectionate Parody of The Western pulp movies, and quite the Cliché Storm. There are no Western movies made by Czechoslovakian film school, just this one, and you can sense just how much everybody involved in the movie loved it to bits.
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an Affectionate Parody of B-rated sci-fi horror movies from the 50s.
- Man of the House parodied the role that made Tommy Lee Jones famous, the lawman.
- The Man with Two Brains is a modern day take on Gothic Horror.
- Mars Attacks! is an affectionate parody of 1950's science fiction Alien Invasion B-movies.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Terry Jones was an Arthurian scholar and knew a lot of the source material. As a result, the movie has a lot of fun parodying Arthurian Legend while still being one of its more accurate portrayals.
- Stanley Donen's sadly all-but-forgotten 1978 film Movie Movie was a loving Valentine to the cheesy B-list 1930s/early '40s era black-and-white films Hollywood would churn out during the height of the old studio system. Complete with lines so cornball they'd make Captain America blush. It's glorious fun for fans of vintage kitsch.
- The Muppets Take Manhattan is an Affectionate Parody of 1930's/'40's-era movie musicals of the "let's put on a show variety".
- Murder by Death is an Affectionate Parody of Agatha Christie-type murder mysteries.
- Music and Lyrics is an Affectionate Parody of "disposable" bubblegum pop music, and its slightly pretentious-yet-cheesy tendencies, from the 1980s — especially in the mock MTV video clip for fictional band Po P!'s big hit "Pop! Goes My Heart" — to the present day, with the Britney / Christina Aguilera-type pop star character.
- My Name Is Nobody takes this concept to its logical extreme, no wonder as it was produced by Sergio Leone himself. Whimsical, hysterical, warm and ultimately an achingly gentle farewell to the genre he himself created, it's a wonderful mood-rollercoaster of satire and homage, to the point you will cry Manly Tears every bit as much as laugh while watching it.
- Mystery Men parodies the Superhero and Super Team genres. The over-the-top architecture of Champion City was inspired by Gotham City as portrayed in the Joel Schumacher Batman films.
- Mystery Team does this for Kid Detective series in the Encyclopedia Brown/Three Investigators mode
- Not Another Teen Movie spoofs, well...Teen Movies (from at least the 1980s to the early 2000s). The plot mostly parodies She's All That, but it also pays homage to (and mocks genre conventions with) other classics like Can't Hardly Wait, Varsity Blues, The Breakfast Club, American Pie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cruel Intentions, Never Been Kissed, Sixteen Candles, Bring It On, Save the Last Dance, Pretty in Pink, etc.
- Paul parodied "first contact" alien films like ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and, with them, pay great homage to Steven Spielberg.
- Pootie Tang, The Hebrew Hammer, and Black Dynamite are a few examples of this trope on Blaxploitation movies.
- Press Start (2007), to every videogame in existence.
- The Princess Bride is a parody of medieval romances.
- While Punch-Drunk Love is a Deconstruction of Adam Sandler's roles as a sociopathic manchild, Anger Management is its parody.
- Rock Slyde is a parody of Film Noir, even having the first scene in black & white, though doesn't last.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a very affectionate parody of the old B-movies Richard O'Brien grew up loving.
- Rustlers' Rhapsody makes fun of all those B-grade singing-cowboy westerns produced back in the 50s. But it makes fun in a friendly way.
- Samurai Fiction affectionately parodies traditional samurai epics while including a few modern art-film touches — and a rock-and-roll soundtrack supplied by co-star Tomoyasu Hotei.
- Scream's tongue-in-cheek meta-references to established Horror Tropes were so cleverly done that it initiated a self-aware trend in later horror films. The fact that it was helmed by master of horror Wes Craven only cemented its status as affectionate.
- Its parody, the Scary Movie series, also started a trend for other movie genres not taking themselves as seriously, ranging from decent things like Not Another Teen Movie and Superhero Movie to abominations like Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie (all of which come from Seltzer and Friedberg, one might notice...).
- Shaun of the Dead. Star and co-writer Simon Pegg said it was closer to "a love letter" to Romero's zombie films than a parody.
- Singin' in the Rain, considered one of the all-time great film musicals was itself intended as an affectionate parody of the original big Hollywood musicals. Right down to there being an overblown fantasy sequence inside the overblown fantasy sequence.
- Sky High (2005) is fond of pointing out the more ridiculous tropes in both the superhero and high school drama genres, which it typically accomplishes by using them straight but to an absurdly over-the-top degree. For example, the Commander has an entire drawer full of identical phones for when he pushes the buttons too hard.
- Slither is an affectionate parody of (roughly Seventies-Eighties era) horror movies.
- Snakes on a Plane is an affectionate sendup of a number of genres, such as airplane disaster, animal horror, and even action-adventure.
- Some Like It Hot is replete with shout outs to past gangster films.
- Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, a Finnish amateur film, makes fun of Star Trek and Babylon 5.
- Stardust: the affectionate parody of classic fairy tales and fantasy genre.
- The Starsky & Hutch movie is not only a send-up of the original show but also of the Buddy Cop genre.
- Superhero Movie particularly parodies superhero films that made a resurgence throughout the 2000s though it mostly takes from the plot of the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man (2002) but it also satirizes X-Men and Batman Begins among other things.
- Support Your Local Sheriff is an Affectionate Parody of The Western. Interestingly it's not a bad example of that genre even if you manage to take it seriously.
- Support Your Local Gunfighter, a non-sequel follow-up produced by more or less the same people, treads the same ground with less success.
- They/Them (2022): Full of nods to Friday the 13th (1980), complete with Kevin Bacon.
- This is Spın̈al Tap is a fairly obvious example of this, it being a parody of the hard rock and Heavy Metal of the 70s and 80s. It is also parodies concert films and "rockumentaries" of the time. It's shown to be an affectionate parody by the sympathetic portrayal of the band towards the end of the film, and the fact that it references things that only fans of the genre could possibly get. The amount of effort the three leads put into writing the songs for the film makes this even more evident.
- Throw Momma from the Train is a love letter to Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.
- Top Secret! parodied World War II espionage movies, though it's set in The '60s Cold War era, the better to also send up 1960s rock and roll musicals.
- The made-for-TV Totally Awesome parodies '80's teen flicks.
- Tremors, while not an out-and-out parody, includes several gentle swipes at 50's monster-movie plots.
- Tropic Thunder is an Affectionate Parody of both classic Vietnam films such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon, as well as the wider absurdities of Hollywood itself.
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer parody Hillbilly Horrors.
- UHF is rife with Affectionate Parodies. Since "Weird Al" Yankovic not only starred in, but co-wrote the film, this wasn't exactly surprising.
- Vamp! is one for nearly every vampire movie ever made.
- Vampires Suck parodies Twilight. Given who's parodying it, affectionate is probably not the right word though.
- Walk Hard is a parody of music biopics such as Walk the Line and I'm Not There, but it also mocks the traditional clichés associated with many musical biopics.
- Wet Hot American Summer is an Affectionate Parody of the multitude of teen Summer Campy comedies released in the '80s, such as Meatballs.
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story lampoons musical biopics such as Bohemian Rhapsody. What else would one expect from the subject matter?
- Without a Clue parodies Sherlock Holmes films, particularly their tendency to Flanderize Dr. Watson.
- Wrongfully Accused parodies The Fugitive and a host of many other movies and TV shows as well as Fugitive Arc action thrillers as a whole.
- The short The Your Name Here Story is a parody of corporate promotional films. It is intentionally vague on what exactly it is about or who makes it, and thus is supposed to be "all purpose". The product is referred to as "Your Product Here" so it can fit any number of inventions and the company is also just "Your Product Here". The product is described as astounding to ridiculous manners. It apparently helps training your dog, lets you have more spare time, helps shave your facial hair, grow better crops, helps your cigarette taste better, help keeps your romance alive, helps you lose weight, and helps various other things.
