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Melanie Johnson (34 KP) rated To Be or Not to Be (1983) in Movies

Aug 14, 2018  
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
1983 | Comedy, Drama
9
7.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Farce (1 more)
Nazis loose
A few flat moments (0 more)
To watch or not to watch
If you currently have an HBO subscription then you need to add this to your watch list right away. It's not one of Mel Brooks bigger title films, but it should be as it's just as witty and funny. A remake of a 1940s film, it stays true to the classic with a touch of Brooks. A polish theater troupe in Warsaw use their love of the stage to fool the nazis and escape the ghetto. It's a farce in the truest form, and when this movie makes you laugh, you will be rolling.
  
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Lenard (726 KP) rated Sausage Party (2016) in Movies

Oct 16, 2017  
Sausage Party (2016)
Sausage Party (2016)
2016 | Animation, Comedy
8
5.8 (37 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Food looks to humanity as gods who will release them from the mundanity and oppression of their shelf life. But, it was a lie created by the original settlers to disguise the horrors of life outside. Lots of racial and ethnic humor influenced by Mel Brooks ensues. I would have felt a little better if Lavosh was not the Middle Eastern bread since Armenia is neither Muslim or Middle Eastern, but creative license
  
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Paul Wernick recommended Blazing Saddles (1974) in Movies (curated)

 
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
1974 | Classics, Comedy, Western
8.3 (19 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"I’m in no particular order, but I will go Blazing Saddles, which was the first R-Rated movie that I ever saw. We had it on VHS. It was our first VHS new. Me and my brothers — my two brothers — we watched it probably a hundred times and loved it. Mel Brooks is a hero of ours, and Rhett actually ran into him at the grocery store. Like, went up to him."

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Barry Levinson recommended I Vitelloni (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
I Vitelloni (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
1953 | Comedy, Drama
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I used to tell Mel Brooks stories about the guys I knew hanging around a diner, and he mentioned Fellini’s I vitelloni as something I should see. Back in those days, it was very hard to find a film like that. So I wrote Diner and eventually saw I vitelloni. In retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t see it before making Diner. If I did, I think it might have made me too intimidated to write about my own friends."

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Bill Plympton recommended The Producers (1967) in Movies (curated)

 
The Producers (1967)
The Producers (1967)
1967 | Classics, Comedy
8.3 (19 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"Number two is The Producers by Mel Brooks, of course. The reason I like this one is that it’s essentially a cartoon with live actors. They’re so over the top and so exaggerated, and of course the Germans, and Hitler and everything. It’s just like a wacky, wacky Warner Bros. cartoon with live actors. And also, the idea is so unique and so fresh and so dark. It’s a very bleak, dark idea, and I love that."

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Joe Mantegna recommended The Producers (1967) in Movies (curated)

 
The Producers (1967)
The Producers (1967)
1967 | Classics, Comedy
8.3 (19 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"The Producers is one of my favorite movies, and I don’t mean the musical. I mean the original one that Mel Brooks directed, with Zero Mostel. I saw it when it first came out. I saw it in the movie theaters, back in the ’60s. I just think as a comedy, and also being in the business as I am, and coming from theater, it just had that much more impact for me. That’s a movie I like very much."

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David McK (3233 KP) rated Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) in Movies

Mar 23, 2024  
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
1993 | Comedy
5
6.8 (11 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
"...and why should they listen to you?" / "Because, unlike certain other Robins, I can speak with an English accent!"
Mel Brooks 1993 spoof, that takes aim primarily at the Kevin Costner 1991 'Prince of Thieves' version, with bits of the classic 1938 film thrown in as well as the Disney animated version.

Not as funny as I remember it being, unfortunately, with some questionable acting and the 4th wall breaking bits not really adding anything to the mix.

YMMV, of course!