Santa Claus Conquers the Martians or perhaps Robot Monster.

Don't forget the funny ants of THEM, voiced by Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger.

Wait, I want a remake of Mac and Me! :)

Jim Carrey as a robot cowboy gone berserk? Sold!

Has to be Metropilis...

The original is already pretty funny, what with all the wierd silent film auto-breast-groping.

-Kle.

i think one of those movies that takes itself so seriously like Stalker with woody allen as the prof - and instead of the film mode change over to colour it could be a changeover to acid-delusional tie-dye. The Zone could be a hippie enclave and the sacred room could be... hmm.. the metaphor of the perfect joint...
Or - we could just do Brazil but with steve martin and john candy as surgeon and protagonist respectively... put in the spirit of trains, planes, and autos.. amusement-ness ensues...

I dunno, I think Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare and with all those nifty sets that became so iconic, just scream for a smart parody ... heck, it even starred Leslie Neilsen ... get him to star in the parody!

Seth Rogen is playing the Green Hornet? Jesus, shoot me now. The Green Hornet is supposed to be a suave playboy, who's being a news publisher only helps him fight crime. How is retard stoner that wears t- shirts and sometimes is a decent comedy writer supposed to fight crime? I had heard Clooney was going to do it a long time ago, but Seth Rogen...come on. That's just asinine. Is there some way we can sue for his not doing the film?

Silent Running, definitely.

Didn't Lilly Tomlin already remake "The Incredible Shrinking Man" as a comedy?

Solaris, probably. Yeah, definitely Solaris.

Seth Rogan's Run

'sall I am sayin'

Wait - if we re-do Westworld, all the robots could go berserk, not just the gunslinger... and Jim Carrey could be ALL of them! This is box office gold!

@mistermac2000: Hey...actually...

Oh god! NO! DON"T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS!

1. Seth Rogen wins.

2. The fact that anyone is remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still from the literally PERFECT 1951 version makes me want to kill myself. KILL. MYSELF.

Actually, I think I have to not vote in this poll, because wishing the remake treatment on anything is too horrible. Except ...

@bigswingdaddy: YES.

Michael Cera in Westworld. Wow. Brilliant.

When wasn't The Incredible Shrinking Man a comedy?

Those seven films, viewed today, are so unintentionally funny that there would be little point in producing comic versions.

2001: A Space Odyssey with wacky CGI monkeys and Zach Braff as the voice of HAL.

Eugene Levy in anything rocks

@OnwardChristianLaettner: Zach Braff as HAL FTW!

Zardoz with Ben Stiller. Just putting Stiller in that wrestling singlet with thigh-high boots, a handlebar moustache and a pony-tail is all you need for comedy gold.

Silent Running with Owen Wilson. I can just picture him talking to the robots, "Guys, c'mon, it's not cool when you cheat at cards". Although the suicide scene at the end might have to be re-written as a pie fight between him and the robots.

Alphaville with Jack Black. Instead of having the movie dialog in French, Jack Black will talk with a French accent ala Inspector Clousseau. It will be the Pink Panther meets Existentialism meets Hilarity.

Isn't that last one actually the plot (I use the term in its broadest sense) of "Earth Girls Are Easy"?

@BullfightsOnAcid:

Zardoz the Comedy? Sold.

@Evil Tortie's Mom:

As soon as I was reading those above, that was my first thought.

then I was going to put in "remake Earth Girls are easy, but make it funny"

OK, rather than have a film, why not a theatre production? You could get The Reduced Shakespeare Company do "All the Great Science Fiction Movies... Abridged!"
It'd be an instant hit.

Did no-one learn from the whole Stepford thing?

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome:

Agreed! heart Mike,

also the incredible shrinking man was already a comedy in the eighties. Anyone remember the gem The Incredible shrinking woman?

@BrandonSweet: I hate to admit it, but I would watch that until my eyes fell out. Sounds awesome!

I don't think any of those movies warrant a remake. What would be great though would be a comedic remake of "Six Million Dollar Man".

@SuperBien: Doesn't the new Bionic Woman series qualify as that?

The Blobb

Starring Jonah Hill as Barry Lobb (B. Lobb, get it?), the guy who accidently eats his brother's (Jay Baruchel) science expirement while on the munchies after getting high. The result is the always hungry BLOBB who runs (or rolls) around town eating anything and everything in his path, trying to put an end to his permanent munchies.
Meanwhile, his brother enlists the help of his zany chemistry professor (Billy Conolly) to find a cure, and his cousin (Seth Rogen) home from the army reserves to catch and restrain Barry. Sounds awful...ly HILLARIOUS.

I think I would watch Michael Cera in anything . . . so just put his name in any of these and I'm there. Though it was hard for me to sit through Juno just to get my Cera fix. So please no wacky alien impregnations.

The entire series of "Futurama" is one big stack o' sci-fi funny.

I notice nobody mentioned "Spaceballs" which was based on some movie io9ers might remember from the 1970 called "The Star Wars."

Oo! "Invaders from Mars!" & "Amazon Women on the Moon."

First!

@Smeagol92055: I would pay many, many monies to see that.

They already (unintentionally) did a comic remake of Westworld...It was called "Futureworld" (1976)

I always thought the "Alien" movies would have been a lot funnier if they used ass huggers instead of face huggers.

I'll give you a minute to reimagine Kane on the operating table with thing attached to his ass, almost enjoying it. (Dallas: "We've got to get this off him!" Kane: "Yeah no rush.")

Now imagine the infamous dinner scene and try to imagine the hilarious sound effects one might add to creature blasting it's way out of John Hurt's (oh the sweet irony of his last name) posterior.

(I apologize for post-hogging.)

What I'd like to see is the opposite: A darker, edgier "Mork and Mindy" Helmed by Ronald D. Moore.

Doesn't your spoof description of "It Came from Outer Space" sound suspiciously like "Earth Girls are Easy?"

...and Kane would be in the egg chamber, bent over to examine one egg while his rear end keeps inadvertently bumping into an egg behind him, reanimating it...

@Rusty626:

Evil Torti's Mom nailed it about 15 posts above this.

Owen Wilson as Rick Deckard. Carrot Top as Roy Batty. Tina Fey as Priss. Kathy Griffin as Rachel.

And that's my E-ticket to the third circle of Hell.

Why not a comedy version of 'Silent Running'....I am sure there are a lot of laughs that could be wrung out of that movie.

@Rus:

You forgot Larry the Cable Guy as JF Sebastian as long as you're getting the handbasket ready.

@Annalee Newitz:

Cera has been in Tim and Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job!

So no, not everything he does is gold.

I'll throw in a vote for Zardoz, that really needs to happen.

@GenXCub: Actually, I considered Jeff Foxworthy for the role. "If you stab your fingers through my throat, you might just be a ReplicaUGKT!"

@Seth L: I'm thinking Sasha Baron Cohen as Zed. He already has the wardrobe and body hair down.

@Bluecell: "The Blobb"

Simpsons did it.

@robertmonsters:

No, they never learn.

@Priam: In a way yeah, but wouldn't it be great to have "Six Million Dollar Man" comedy? Think of all the gags you could come with knowing that you had to build a bionic man with a budget of just $6 mil? This should have Luke Wilson starring as "Steve Austin" and Alec Baldwin as "Oscar Goldman" . . .

Planet of the Apes. I think keeping humans as pets is funny.

I would have to be Queen Latifah for Maria because you can never go wrong with a sassy black robot.

THX-1138. A kneeslapper just waiting to happen.

I thought Westworld was already a comedy?

Flesh Gordon really made a mean comedic Flash Gordon. I mean, today the sex wouldn't even have to be toned down that much. But then again, who knows what got cut out of the film that I saw.

@Spoony Bard: They already remade Robot Monster. It's called Ghost In The Shell.

Jack Black would make a pretty decent Guy Gardner...