Films That Break the 4th Wall

Mel Brooks often does so in his films like 'Blazzin Saddles' and 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights'.

Also 'The Simpsons Movie' when Homer is in the cinema at the start and talks to the audience and another random one I just thought of is in 'Jumanji' when the little boy is asked to fetch the axe from the shed, picks the axe up to break the lock on the shed then realises - turns to the audience and shrugs.
 
Friday - when Ice Cube's character opens the freezer and an "ice cube" falls out onto the floor. He picks it up, looks directly at the camera, smiles and the scene continues.
 
On Her Majesties Secret Service - When George Lazenby says "This never happened to the other fella" in the pre-credits sequence.
 
I suppose technically it's a breach of the 4th wall, but I'd dispute it on the grounRAB that the film is revolving around Ray Liotta's narrative to the watcher anyway - it fits in with it quite well.

For me, a true breach is when it's totally random and isn't in the context of the whole film & story..

/shrug
 
Scrooged, right at the end when they are singing. And Bill Murray in a cringeworthy moment gets the people in the "theatre" to sing along.

Spaceballs, when Lord Helmet is watching a VHS of the movie "Spaceballs" to find the location of Princess Vespa. :D
 
Airplane! - When Ted Striker gets told how it is from Elaine, whereupon he turns to the camera and says. 'What a pisser.'

The reason I always remember this particular moment is because I got in to trouble with my mum for repeating that very same line. :D

You see, films do affect small children. Ban them all!
 
Although I can't think of a particular moment when it happens, I'd bet my left arm that the 4th wall is broken at some point during Hot Shots! Part Deux.
 
Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety": the camera bangs into the window of a room where the characters are having dinner and they all turn to stare at it.
 
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