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Agrimorfee

Mongo only pawn in the game of life...

11 years 5 months ago

Dragan88

"where them white women at!" scene is classic :D

12 years 1 month ago

rhitwick

A great movie....a lot of serious topics discussed in a very light hearted way.

13 years 7 months ago

Kamrado

Funny and controversial as hell.

14 years 3 months ago

With Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks broke new ground (and new wind), calibrating a tone that allows audiences to laugh at aberrant racism, punching up, now down, and it's perhaps a mark against how little attitudes towards race have evolved in the past 50 years that it still feels edgy and relevant. It might not have worked without charming performances from Cleavon Little as Black Bart, the West's first and only black sheriff, and the fallen Waco Kid played by Gene Wylder who, along with Madeline Kahn's German showgirl, I find a lot more interesting than the buffoonish villains. And despite the anachronisms, slapstick, metatextual humor, and scenes right out of Looney Toons (Bart is nothing if not Bugs Bunny in this), it's got a fun story you want to follow and that sends up westerns without feeling overly familiar. It stands up.

6 years 2 months ago

Oneironaut

Enjoyed it, unfortunately - as with the other Mel Brooks' movies that I've seen - it didn't make me laugh out loud, or really laugh at all. I got all the humour, thought it was done very well... but no kick to it. Damn, I was really hoping it would get me.

Though one random scene got me towards the end involving the villain, brilliantly done. Would watch it again just for that!

11 years 12 months ago

jacktrewin

this is BRILLIANT

12 years 10 months ago

Boei

I’m all for simple humor. But this has not dated well and I don’t believe it was ever truly funny. It’s boring, childish, and just lazy… There are many old films that are way more funny then this.

Guys farting after eating beans… that’s the level we’re talking about here.. And I’m sure you could make that funny with some effort, but this is just lazy…

2 weeks 4 days ago