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Summary: Mel Brooks' best work; Zero in Oscar caliber performance
Review: The definitive Mel Brooks. A young, innocent Gene Wilder gets drawn into a seductive web of deception by Zero Mostel, way off-Broadway producer. Dick Shawn and Kenneth Mars add to the mayhem. Be careful of poor quality VHS copies, circa 1985- this movie is not easy to find, either on TV or video stores. Wait for the new re-release, Spring 2000.
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Summary: Perhaps the funniest movie I have ever seen.
Review: The wonderful writing and directing of Mel Brooks, and the brilliant comic timing of Zero Mostel make this movie my favorite. I just wish they would rerelease it on video.
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Summary: Too funny!
Review: They are looking for a BAD play to produce. One classic scene has them pouring through volumes of plays. Zero Mostel finds one called "Metamorphosis" and describes it: "A man awakens one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a giant cockroach." He tosses it aside and says "It's too good."
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Summary: Arguably the funniest movie ever made.
Review: Meet Max Bialystock, a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer wearing a cardboard belt. Meet Leo Bloom, a smart, honest accountant, about to be corrupted. These two put together the worst elements possible for a Broadway musical: the worst script, the worst director, the worst cast, and the worst imaginable taste. Voila! "Springtime for Hitler," destined to become the surprise hit of the Broadway season!Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder set it in motion, and a string of character actors set it out of control. We have the insane playwright, who wants everyone to know that Hitler was a lovely dancer. We have the incorrigible director, who insists on turning a spoken drama into a Busby Berkley musical. We have the lead actor, so doped up he has Hitler calling Eva Braun "Baby" every other sentence. And in the "Good Sport" category, we have Lee Meriwether as Max' new Swedish secretary, who go-go dances in a bikini whenever Max tells her, "Go to work." Anyone up for a game of The Contessa and the Chauffeur? Wonderful movie. Whoever borrowed my copy, er, can I have it back, please?
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Summary: The funniest movie I've ever seen!
Review: I can't begin to express my disappointment at not being able to get a copy of this profanity-free gem of a comedy. I've been trying for years since I last saw it on TV probably 20 years ago. Mostel and Wilder are a preciously rare and unlikely duo who leave no question as to why they both have both enjoyed such acclaim in their subsequent works. This is Mel Brooks' classiest and perhaps funniest film. It's a wonder he's been able to follow this one with so many other successes the most noteworthy of which, in my humble opinion, "Young Frankenstein". Please re-release this one.
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Summary: Got the ball rolling for Mel Brooks
Review: Shining comedic performances by the late veteran Zero Mostel and the then up-and-coming Gene Wilder. A very imaginative plot about two guys who diligently plan a broadway production to fail; and by some rotten luck, this show turns out to be a success. This film is unceasingly funny from beginning to end.
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Summary: A terrifically funny film!
Review: How Mel Brooks came up with this one is anyone's guess, but the film works at every turn -- from the hilarious opening scene where Zero Mostel is conniving little old ladies out of their savings to the look on Gene Wilder's face when he finds out he'll have to pay those unsuspecting ladies 25,000% of the play's profits. This film needs to be re-released. It could easily find a new adoring audience more than 30 years after its debut. It certainly needs to be re-offered to the video market.
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Summary: absolutely the best comedy ever made!!
Review: The opening half hour of dialogue in Max's office between the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder contains, for me, the best moments of the film. The "you're going to jump on me", the "I'm assuming you're making those caroon noises to get my attention", and the "fly of to Rio" scenes are the three most hilarious single scenes ever captured on film. The interplay between the two actors is pure magic. Mel Brooks got lucky. He's never been able to top this film in my book. Honorable mention to the late Dick Shawn as "L.S.D." The funniest actor ever to play Hitler!!
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Summary: One of the two Mel Brooks' best
Review: The producers is undoubtedly one of the funniest and most iconoclastic movies ever made. It is Brooks' best movie next to Young Frankenstein. The cast is perfectly over-the-top; the gay director and Dick Shawn playing their parts to perfection. But, Kenneth Mars as the crazy German steals the show (as he does as Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein). The movie is especially funny when considering that it came out in the late sixties when there was still much live resentment of the Nazis. It took more than a little courage to spoof the Nazis back then.
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Summary: Classical comedy for the ages
Review: The age old business of swindling explodes before the very eyes of swine in charge. Wonderfully acted, great one-liners, you have to see it. Makes you laugh out loud more than once in a matter of seconds.
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