The Producers (1968)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:56
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: A hilarious satire of the business side of Hollywood, The Producers is one of Mel Brooks' finest, as well as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
Reviews for The Producers
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Quite possibly Brooks's finest hour. Full Review |
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Brooks' first feature, an absolutely hilarious and tasteless New York Jewish comedy about Broadway. Full Review |
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5/5 |
It's the ultimate punchline, the killer gag, that a proto-novel that turned into a proto-play that ended up as a movie about the worst musical in history, is now the most popular musical in town. Full Review |
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10/10 |
It is moving to know that a film can be so entertaining, and almost a third of a century after its release, it still stands tall above almost every contemporary comedy and every pretentious twit who moans about films that 'have nothing to say'. Full Review |
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Like The Producers itself, Springtime for Hitler, with its Busby Berkeley-meets-Leni Riefenstahl choreography and creatively crude lyrics, ends up proving that bad taste can be irresistible. Full Review |
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The Producers has many things going for it -- notably a wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines. Full Review |
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Mel Brooks has turned a funny idea into a slapstick film, thanks to the performers, particularly Zero Mostel. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The original, and by far the best. Full Review |
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Everything that can go wrong in an amateur film does go wrong, from the timing to the structure to the pitch of the performances. Full Review |
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5/5 |
An anarchic reminder that laughter can be mightier than the sword. Full Review |
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You don't need to be a WWII vet to feel the glee as the movie invites us to dance on Hitler's grave. Full Review |
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3/5 |
If you love and understand live theatre, or the old-school movie musicals of the 1940s, you will enjoy this much more than people who cannot transfer their minds to that world. Full Review |
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Wilder's like a baby monkey--you get the feeling he'd cling to your leg if you let him. Full Review |
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Scathingly hysterical. Full Review |
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5/5 |
If Mel Brooks is remembered for only three films, then he can rest easy knowing that they're three of the funniest ones ever made. And The Producers was the first. Full Review |
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Nobody does it like Brooks! The best interpretation of the tale to date. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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4/5 |
A great introduction to Mel Brooks' humor.
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