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Summary: does not deserve to carry the title "12 Chairs"
Review: "Twelve Chairs" is one of the greatest classics of Russian literature, the 1977 movie rendition of it (directed by Mark Zakharov) is simply an excellent movie. In comparison (and actually, even without one) this Mel Brooks film is simply pathetic. It is, actually, beyond me why Brooks would choose this poignantly satirical work for a slap-stick comedy. If this is the only version of "12 Chairs" that you have seen, or read, then you have no idea of what that book is all about.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever seen!!!
Review: A movie that talks to your heart. A movie that tells what one could do for money, for survival. Lough and tears, dignity and indignity, trust and untrustworthiness, arogance and humbleness! Human feelings suceeding one another. Strong film with great performances in the immense Russian landscape. A movie that makes you think and reconsider.
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Summary: Hilarious, The Best Mel Brooks Movie EVER!!!
Review: By far my favorite Mel Brooks movie. Highly reccommended! I found this in a friends parents movie cabinet, lonely and unwatched. I ended up keeping it.
The comedy is a bit more subtle than many of Mel's movies. Ostap Bender, the main character is a sexy con man, best liar in the world. Mel Brooks plays a former slave who misses the good old days when he master "hardly ever beat us." There's really not much I can say, except-WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!
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Summary: Hilarious, The Best Mel Brooks Movie EVER!!!
Review: By far my favorite Mel Brooks movie. Highly reccommended! I found this in a friends parents movie cabinet, lonely and unwatched. I ended up keeping it.
The comedy is a bit more subtle than many of Mel's movies. Ostap Bender, the main character is a sexy con man, best liar in the world. Mel Brooks plays a former slave who misses the good old days when he master "hardly ever beat us." There's really not much I can say, except-WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!
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Summary: One of Brooks's best
Review: For my money, the best Mel Brooks movies are those in which he appears the least or not at all. It's not that I don't think that he isn't a brilliant comedic actor: he is. But my top three Mel Brooks movies are THE PRODUCERS, THE TWELVE CHAIRS, and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Although he does have a few minutes on film in this movie, they're brief and effective. But he never comes close to stealing the scene from Ron Moody, Frank Langella or Dom DeLuise--and all three of these actors are perfect in their roles. DeLuise is at his best here, and Moody, with his Trotsky looks and high strung personality is hysterical.THE TWELVE CHAIRS is brilliant historical spoof of strong materialism in a place where no one is to have possessions: post-Revolutionary Russia. But humans will be humans, and the desire for comfort and money will always be with us, I'm afraid. But this isn't a morality film. It's huge fun, great satire, and loaded with an understanding of humanity.
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Summary: Very Funny!
Review: I bought this movie last night without a doubt that It would be really funny, and it was!!!!! I recommend this to anyone looking for a good laugh
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Summary: Overlooked classic!
Review: I didn't even know this movie existed until I saw that scene in "Spaceballs" when that one guy is looking for the cassette and he passes "Twelve Chairs". I wondered "What the heck is that movie?" and, lo and behold, it was at the library. So I rented it and watched it that night. IT...WAS...FUNNY!!!!! Mel Brooks is by far the funnies person in this movie, followed closely by Dom DeLuise. This should've won the Oscar for Best Original Song, "Hope for the Best (Expect the Worst)". If it already did, I wouldn't know.
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Summary: Great overlooked comedy
Review: I first saw this film when I was a Russian major in college in the 70s. It's based on the 1920s novel "Dvenadtsat' stul'ev" by the Russian-Jewish writing team of Ilya Ilf & Yevgeny Petrov, beloved for their hilarious, biting satires of the Bolshevik regime. (The Amazon reviewer said that 12 Chairs is from a Russian folk tale, but that's not the case.) While many of Ilf & Petrov's jabs at the inanities and bureacratic lunacies of Soviet life would be lost on an a non-Russian audience, Brooks does a marvelous job of turning this material into a parody of human foibles that can be appreciated by anyone regardless of time or place. What a masterstoke it was on the part of Mel Brooks to bring this uproarious classic to the screen!
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Summary: Overlooked Mel Brooks Classic
Review: I have been a fan of Mel Brooks for a while, all this time considering Young Frankenstein as his all time best...now I have to rethink that! I discovered this movie a couple months ago, and now in my book it rates up there with Young Frankenstein as the best Mel Brooks movie out there. Why doesn't it get the publicity of his other films? It is a classic! The performances in the movie are great, I couldn't stop laughing! I wish that Mel Brooks would also make a movie of The Golden Calf, the sequel to this story.
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Summary: This is a keeper!
Review: If you liked Blazing Saddles and The Producers, I know you must like this one, no matter what anyone says. This may not be a hysterical movie, but it is worth getting in DVD so it'll keep. Buy it today and have a good time when it arrives..Cheers
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