Blazing Saddles (1974)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:40
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A madcap spoof of the classic Hollywood Western, BLAZING SADDLES is also one of the most gleefully anti-P.C. films ever produced by a major studio. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is... [More]
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman
Director: Mel Brooks
Reviews for Blazing Saddles
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It's tough to beat as an outrageously phlegmy deposit in Hollywood's spittoon. Full Review |
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The screenplay is credited to five writers, and it shows in the confused melange of styles. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Brooks' wholehearted embracing of rank vulgarity, together with his innovative quickfire sketch structure, titillated crowds more used to sophisticated Hollywood humour. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Rip-roaring comedy with fine performances from a star-studded cast.
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Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.' Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A lewd spoof of westerns and racial prejudice; enough laughs to cover the fact that it is, essentially, a stupid movie. Full Review |
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One of the funniest awful movies ever made. Full Review |
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Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon. Full Review |
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3/4 |
I laughed and laughed while viewing this again. Maybe part of it was nostalgia, but part of it came from a refreshing feeling of being shocked once more. Full Review |
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8/10 |
...at once a parody of old Western movies and a social satire on race and prejudice. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Madeline Kahn was nominated for the Supporting Actress Oscar for her wonderful parody of all the cabaret singers that Dietrich used to play, including the comedy-Western Destry Rides Again. Full Review |
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Chalk up Blazing Saddles as only a lampoon of Hollywood westerns and you miss the point by a Texas mile.... Its humor is the palliative that lets Brooks mock prejudices and, with gloves off, prejudiced people. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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4/5 |
Whacked out and brilliant. Eminently rewatchable.
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B- |
Still good for a few chuckles, but I find it somewhat overrated. Full Review |
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C+ |
Somehow the raunchy humor seemed to pass me by. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The funniest Mel Brooks film, Clevevon Little, who died far too young, is a comic genius. With the success of The Producers on Broadway maybe we can expect a stage version of Saddles which I'd pay good money to see.
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5/5 |
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3/5 |
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4/4 |
It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Full Review |
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