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* One of the opening scenes of ''[[Armageddon (Film)|Armageddon]]'' has a dog chewing on a toy Godzilla. The remake of ''[[Godzilla]]'' was another big blockbuster the same summer.
* One of the tidal wave scenes from ''[[Deep Impact]]'' shows the water wiping out an offshore oil drilling rig, which was a [[Take That]] against ''Armageddon''. ''Armageddon'' didn't consider ''[[Deep Impact]]'' enough of a threat to [[Take That]]; as mentioned above, they took their shot at ''[[Godzilla]]'' instead.
* A scene in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Film)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]: [[The Movie]]'' features [[Big Bad]] Ivan Ooze--as he is trashing the Command Center--lamenting the terrible things he missed out on while sealed away for a couple thousand years: "the Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition! [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|The]] ''[[Brady Bunch]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Reunion]]''!" Made funny by the grave emphasis he puts on the ''Brady Reunion''.
* In ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'', [[Daffy Duck]] suggests that they call their basketball team "The Ducks". [[Bugs Bunny]]' response: "What kind of [[Mickey Mouse]] organization would call their team the Ducks?" Besides using "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative term, this could be considered a slam against both the [[Walt Disney]] Pictures film series ''[[The Mighty Ducks (Film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' and the then Disney-owned NHL hockey team The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
** The Anaheim Ducks dropped the "Mighty" when Disney sold the team. This leaves them simply "the Ducks" in a league where most teams have names like "Predators", "Thrashers", "Flames", "Hurricanes", and "Wild". Hockey teams are supposed to have names that inspire ''fear''. Even names like "Canadiens" and "Canucks" inspire fear in those familiar with Canadian military history.
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*** But when the animated series came out, Zilla's son Zilla Jr. had a much better reception. Zilla was even featured in the Japanese only Dreamcast game Godzilla Generations, where he is called Godzilla-USA. Zilla Jr. is also called Godzilla Jr. ''by Toho themelves!''
** In ''[[Godzilla]] 2000: Millenium'', the aliens' flying saucer attack could be seen as a subtle [[Take That]] against Devlin and Emmerich's ''[[Independence Day]]''. And in the final act, one of the forms adopted by the alien [[Kaiju]] Orga is an obvious [[Expy]] of GINO.
* In the [[B
** May also be a [[Shout Out|reference]] to the fact that the boat used to kill <s> Jaws</s> [[I Am Not Shazam|the shark]] was called ''Orca''.
** The movie ''Jaws 2'' fires right back as one of the shark's early victims is none other than... you guessed it, a killer whale.
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** It is well known among fans, however, that Dr. Bakker actually loved the scene, and even called Horner after watching the movie and told him "See? I told you it was a predator!" (Horner is the oldest- and practically, the only- defender of the theory of T-Rex as a giant, slow-moving full-time scavenger, whereas Bakker always defended the idea of T-Rex as a fast, ferocious killer).
* The Hong Kong movie ''High Risk'' had the character Frankie Lone, an overt [[Take That]] by the director at [[Jackie Chan]]'s expense -- portraying him as a boozing, womanizing fraud whose stunts were really done by the main character, played by [[Jet Li]]. However, Jet Li did publicly apologize for his involvement later.
* [[M Night Shyamalan]]'s movies following ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' weren't very well received. So in ''[[Lady in The Water]]'', he has a [[Straw Critic|pompous blowhard critic character]] who gets killed off in a scene that proves how little he knows. Did we mention that M. Night Shyamalan included an obvious [[Author Avatar]]--''played by Shyamalan himself''--who was a messiah figure who would sacrifice his life to write a story so beautiful and wonderful it would change the world? Of course, the movie stank ''and'' made Mr. Shyamalan look like [[Small Name, Big Ego|a petty child with delusions of grandeur]]. Furthermore, as part of a near-universal savaging anyway, the critics gleefully pointed out the amazing hubris demonstrated by the elements discussed.
* ''[[Dodgeball a True Underdog Story]]'' has a scene after the end credits that is basically a [[Take That]] to the studio executives who forced him to change the ending from a [[Downer Ending]] to a [[Happy Ending]], as well as American audiences for not being able to handle sad endings or any complexity in their movies.
{{quote| {{spoiler|White Goodman: "Yep, I hope you're all happy now. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Big freakin' surprise! I love happy endings. You know, that's the problem with the American cinema. Can't handle any complexity in it, you know, 'Don't make me think, I just want to be entertained!'"}}}}
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*** This gets zigzagged later in ''Dark of the Moon'' - the Autobot Dino is a Ferrari, the Decepticon {{spoiler|Soundwave}} is a Mercedes Benz.
** In the first movie, when Sam and his Dad are car-shopping, the salesman sits behind the wheel of a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, which is promptly slammed by the Autobot Bumblebee (disguised as a yellow Camaro). [[Word of God]] is that this was a [[Take That]] against the original [[Transformers Generation 1]] Bumblebee character.
** in ''Dark Of The Moon,'' Megan Fox's character Mikela does not appear, and dumped Sam between films, which is likely Bay's commentary on Megan Fox, who shortly after wrapping ''Revenge of the Fallen'' [[
* The opening sequence of ''[[All That Jazz]]'' is Bob Fosse showing that he can do ''A Chorus Line'' better in under five minutes with almost no dialog.
* The [[View Askewniverse]] movies have varying levels of this in each movie, but it reached fever pitch in ''Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back'', taking shots at pop culture, themselves, their audience, and everything in-between.
** The character of Elias in ''Clerks 2'' essentially exists so Kevin Smith can insist that ''[[Star Wars]]'' is better than ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Transformers]].'' He's [[Straw Loser|an unlikable mama's boy]] and fan of ''[[Transformers]]'' and ''LotR,'' while Randall is a mean yet likeable guy and a ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan, and even [[Writer On Board|copies Smith's statement]] that "''Lord of the Rings'' is just a bunch of people walking". They have a fight over which is better. Guess who "wins" and makes the other vomit.
* The [[So Bad
** Don't forget the scene where the main character repeats the line from Fast And The Furious-"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time" to which Shane replies-"That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard!"
* ''[[Funny Games]]'', an attempted [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Gorn|Torture Porn]] genre, consists of an extended [[Take That]] directed at ''[[You Bastard|its own audience]]'' for being the kind of people who would like that kind of movie.
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*** Kael noted it ( "a homage a la moi") in her negative review. She also made an interesting observation that after Lucas' well publicized divorce where his ex got half his fortune he now made a fantasy movie where women had all the power.
* ''[[Warriors of Virtue]]'', a Mystical Kung-Fu adventure from the mid-90's, features a scene early on in which the movie's protagonist Ryan is told by an Asian chef about a magical world he winds up travelling to later on. The chef describes this place as "a world beyond anything you've ever seen...no guns, no lasers, no Morphing...", a rather obvious Take That! at ''[[Power Rangers]]''.
* ''[[Office Space]]'' did this with a character named Michael Bolton. When Peter asks Bolton why he doesn't change his name if he's dissatisfied with [[
* It is believed by some fans that the villain of ''[[Up (Film)|Up]]'', Charles Muntz, is a jab at Charles ''Mintz'', the man who took the rights to [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] away from [[Walt Disney]], in addition to his animation team, forcing him to start over with his own company and create [[Mickey Mouse]]. However, This has actually been [[Jossed]] by Pixar staff, who claim that it was just a coincidence.
* The start of the first ''[[XXX (Film)|xXx]]'' movie (the [[Vin Diesel]] spy thing, not the porn genre) features a [[James Bond (Franchise)|tuxedo-wearing spy]] finding himself in a club, looking very out of place amongst the hip young kids, before getting himself shot several times.
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* When [[Wes Craven]] read Kevin Williamson's script for ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'', he was worried that the line about how the first ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' was good, "but the rest sucked" could be mistakenly seen as a [[Take That]] from him to people who made the sequels. But then he realized that "the rest" would include his own ''New Nightmare'' as well, and left it in.
* ''[[The Producers]]'' portrays the cultural elite of New York as being so shallow that all it takes to make the musical of the year is to portray Hitler as an idiot -- a dig which can also be seen as taking on the audience as well!
* In ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'', in Deathly Hallows Part 1, there is a moment where a wizard is reciting a "short" list of dead or missing witches and wizards. Among them is a witch named "Ebony Raven," who any Harry Potter fan could recognize as part of the name of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, a Mary Sue of epic proportions that served as the protagonist of the bad fanfiction ([[Alternative Character Interpretation|or]] ''[[
* The Hallmark Channel made-for-TV movie ''The Santa Incident'' is just one big take that at [[Lawful Stupid|Homeland Security]].
* ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' contains what is perhaps not only the finest example of this trope but also an [[Author Tract]], [[Tear Jerker]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] all rolled into [[Truth in Television]] in its final scene, where [[Charlie Chaplin]] breaks character in awesome fashion to deliver a moving speech on the state of the world.
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