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starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder directed by: Mel Brooks

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Average Rating: Rating: - NEVER GIVE A SAGA AN EVEN BREAK Mel Brooks' comic saga of cowboys and imbeciles. The railroad is bound to run right through the sleepy town of Rock Ridge. Land there will be worth a fortune. But the townsfolk already own their own land. How do you drive them out?. Send in the roughest, toughest, leanest, meanest gang you've got...and appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of "BLAZING SADDLES" - just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film gets under way - logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers, and outrageous assaults upon good taste. Or any taste at all. Brooks has had audiences rolling in the aisles for more than 30 years. From "YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS" as a writer, the '60s TV series "GET SMART" as creator, "THE 2,000 YEAR-OLD MAN" LP as a performer, to the Academy Award winning short "THE CRITIC" as irreverent narrator. And on to movie hits by the handful - "THE PRODUCERS" (1968, an Oscar winner for Brooks' screenplay), "THE 12 CHAIRS" (1970), "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN" (1974), "SILENT MOVIE" (1976), "HIGH ANXIETY" (1978), "HISTORY OF THE WORLD - PART 1" (1981), "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" (1983), "SPACEBALLS" (1987), "ROBIN HOOD - MEN IN TIGHTS" (1993), "DRACULA - DEAD AND LOVING IT" (1996). Brooks is just off the wall in comedy; he blows the walls away - and finds a WHOLE NEW place altogether. But "BLAZING SADDLES" is his masterpiece. And it's also the funniest Western ever made. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko "WACO KID", Brooks himself as a dimwitted polotician and Indian Chief, Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr, and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send up that earned her an Academy Award nomination, all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when "BLAZING SADDLES" can no longer contain itself at its finale, it just goes to show you that the Old West will never be the same. TWO-THUMBS UP! Rating: - By far, Mel Brooks all-time best! This was definitely Mel Brook's crowning achievement. Unfortunately you could never release a movie like this today in our "politically correct" environment. Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder were terrific (these are common-clave people. You know, MORONS!), it is the supporting cast that truly made this the all-time classic it is today. Slim Pickens first line in the movie is unforgettable, Harvey Korman's hilarious bad guy (that's HEDLEY!), Madeline Kahn's deadpan impersonation of Marlene Dietrich, and Alex Karras as dimwitted Mongo all contribute to the nonstop hijinks. All are hilarious and each of them steals the show at some point in the film. That part where Mongo punches out the horse is a classic clip. One terrific character in the film not mentioned in other reviews here is frontier gibberish-uttering Gabby Johnson, a dead-on spoof of Gabby Hayes, who appeared in pretty much every Western film from the turn of the last century up through the Roy Rogers era. But the true gift of this film is that every kind of humor is used, from subtle situational humor to in-your-face slapstick comedy. Truly a funny movie that is appreciated by several generations today and will continue to be so in the future. Rating: - The Quintessential Comedy Movie I love this movie! From the opening scene, where Cleavon Little sings the negro work song, "I Get a Kick Outta You", ala Nat King Cole, and he is corrected by the white men shoing him how to sing "Camptown Ladies", to the absurd surrealist ending (when was the last time you've seen a movie burst out of the movie, this is beautiful comedy. Sight gags flying by at the speed of light, you will have to watch it hundreds of times to get them all, one liners that would make the Marx Brothers proud ("Bart, I heard you was hung." "You heard right!) This is absurdist comedy at is best (A toll booth on the William J LaPetomaine Freeway). The Mel Brooks choreography is wonderful when Lili Von Schtup sings "I'm Tired." When was the last time you saw German Soldiers tango with their rifles. This movie is filled frame to frame with humor, and no one gets away not insulted (Okay, we'll take the Irish too!) The cast was perfection, either just over the top, or way over the top Harvey Korman is hilarious as the nefarious Hedley Lamarr. Cleavon Little is fantastic as he makes fun of his own stereotypes, it is absolutely one of the funniest movies ever made by humans on the planet earth.

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