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Summary: Mel Brooks' First and Finest
Review: Mel Brooks' movies are very srange in a certain sense. I mean beyond all of the obvious zanniness. With his movies, the more often you watch them, the more hilarious they become. The first time I saw this movie, I thought the actors were trying to hard for laughs. On my second viewing, I began to really pick up on how funny all of the constant little gags are. Now I am histarical throughout. My favorite line is Zero telling Gene Wilder (a fine member of the Brooks stock company, by the way) "Shut up...I'm having a Rhetorical Conversation!" The film descends into utter insanity as it develops, with the Worst play ever suddenly and tragically become one of the best. As Zero saddly puts it, "I had the wrong script, the wrong director, the wrong actors...where did I go right?"
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Summary: Meshugana Mel
Review: The Producers is classic Mel Brooks- combination of neurotic Gene Wilder and down and out Zero Mostel will keep you in hysterics. Funny performances by Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn, and Lee Meredith. Finally on VHS after all these years-the birth of Mel Brooks insanity.
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Summary: Rolling on the floor funny
Review: When I began watching this video, it was after viewing a number of other, more familiar, Mel Brooks movies. I admit that my attentioned wandered as the plot was explained and I began to ask why this was such a funny movie -- until, that is, they began to work on the "play" that was at the heart of this film. By the time the famous "Springtime for Hitler" came on, I was laughing so hard that I was gasping for air. Some scenes are dated, but this classic is for all Brooks fans and others who enjoy truly absurdly funny cinema.
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Summary: In the realm of madness
Review: Mel Brooks at his best. One of the finest comedies I have ever seen, The Producers explode not only as humor, but an inteligent one; a brilliant script, the best performances (from magnificent Zero Mostel, a real master, to Andreas Vomtsinas), the perfect tempo, etc. Who could ask for anything more? Even if Mel Brooks career lately created not such a good pieces, with The Producers he reached the stars. Just see the "choreographic" conversation when they go for Roger Debris in his Great Duchess Anastasia dress and you'll know.
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Summary: Funny yesterday, funny today, will still be funny 20 years f
Review: For all the times I've seen The Producers, I never tire of it. And I'm continually haunted by one question: who is funnier? Dick Shawn? Or Kenneth Mars?Shawn, as LSD, the star in the Bialystock/Bloom production of "Springtime for Hitler" is outrageous, broader even than his wonderful turn in 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'. Mars, who many will remember as W.D. 'Bud' Prize on "Fernwood Tonight", is spectacular as Nazi pigeon ranger cum playwright, Franz Liebkind. The Producers never misses an opportunity to stack gag upon gag--physical, musical, intellectual-no holds barred. At 88 minutes the film falls flat at about 65, but at that point you're so full of good humor it really doesn't matter anyway. Kudos to Andreas Voutsinas, and Christopher Hewett, both hilarious in smaller roles. If you haven't seen this film, see it today. If you have, see it again, it doesn't lose a thing the second (or third) time around.
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Summary: Where is it?
Review: "The Producers" is hysterically funny and should be a mandatory experience for anyone interested in theater production. Why is it not available? My daughter NEEDS this movie! Theater students around the world are being deprived of a proper education.
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Summary: one of the funniest movies ever
Review: This is a great film which is relitively forgotten in todays world, but it is easily a classic that should not be missed. Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel click so well as theiving producers out to make a million on a "flop" called "Springtime for Hitler." Gene Wilder discovers that, through creative accounting, a producer can make more money with a flop then they can with a hit. And the fun goes from there. Rent or buy this video when it becomes available.
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Summary: When You've Got It Flaunt it!
Review: The most stolen-from movie in contemporary comedy history. You'll recognize more lines, see more lifted ideas than in a dozen other films combined. Film students should buy two, one for study and one for posterity. Normal movie fans will laugh too hard to worry about stuff things.
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Summary: A FIVE-STARE MOVIE YOU CAN'T BUY?
Review: WHY THE HELL CAN'T I BUY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES EVER MADE? RSV
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Summary: A perfect movie you'll never forget
Review: Crackpot characters right out of a madman's imagination transcend time to form a perfect movie. When a once great Broadway producer is reduced to seducing little old ladies for "check-ies" he is crazy for any out he can find. His chance comes from a most unlikely source. The neurotic Leo Bloom, a mild mannered accountant who speculates that a less than honorable man could make more money from a flop than a hit. Struck by the idea, Max Biolystock (producer) sweeps poor Leo into a madcap plan to produce the worst play ever. The Immortal "Springtime for Hitler" Written by a man who felt Hitler was a better painter than Churchill (a whole apartment in one afternoon, two coats!) a choreographer who feels the end of the play has to be changed because it's too depressing (they're losing the war) and starring a hippie whose initials are L.S.D. Can anything go wrong, er right? Everything!
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