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rinkworks.com - : After a creative departure from his movie spoofs with Life Stinks, Mel Brooks returns to his usual with this send-up of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and swashbucklers in general. The routine is tired, but many of the jokes manage to be funny in spite of the formula. Not all of them work, but enough do to recommend it to Brooks' fans. While it can't hold a candle to Brooks' earlier work, it's a notch better than its contemporaries. more...
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2.5/
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movies2.nytimes.com - : Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. more...
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4.5/
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Imagine an amalgamation of The Naked Gun, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and you have a pretty good idea what to expect from Men in Tights. This is a film packed start-to-finish with satire, puns, one-liners, and other assorted visual and audio jokes. Nothing is too high-brow or low-brow for Mel Brooks, although you can bet there are more occurrences of earthy humor than that of the intellectual variety. Every opportunity for a laugh, no matter how feeble or juvenile, is seized upon. more...
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2.5/
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