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www.filmcritic.com - : Blazing Saddles isn't the funniest Mel Brooks movie (that'd be The Producers), but it's by far the least politically correct. Oddly, by venturing into new realms of racist humor, Brooks finds comedy gold, because he's mocking a genre (the western) that's chock full of racist content. And Brooks realizes, as do we during the screening of this film, that history has been willing to look the other way if John Wayne is the racist, so why can't a Jew do the same thing? more...
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www.mutantreviewers.com - : Ask any random group of people what Mel Brooks’s best film is, and the ones who don’t smile nervously and start edging away are likely to give you a wide array of answers. Purists might say it’s surely Young Frankenstein, for being the most subtle (by comparison) of Mel’s movies, and one he’s not actually in. Nerds will head right for Spaceballs, bringing up the spot-on skewering of every major sci-fi franchise popular at the time. Hell, some oddballs might even point to History of the World, Part 1, just to be different… stranger things have happened. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : There are some people who can literally get away with anything -- say anything, do anything -- and people will let them. Other people attempt a mildly dirty joke and bring total silence down on a party. Mel Brooks is not only a member of the first group, he is its lifetime president. At its best, his comedy operates in areas so far removed from taste that (to coin his own expression) it rises below vulgarity. more...
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