Warner Bros Pictures
1974 - Rated R - 1 hr 33 min
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks
Oh, Mel Brooks and your curious brand of humor. There's something about the half-slapstick, half-witty combination of comedy that makes a Mel Brooks movie so unique. Some of the jokes are cheap and dumb, then others surprise you with their wittiness.
Every actor in this movie, it seems, was told "go big or go home" in rehearsals. Mel Brooks isn't subtle, ever, and this movie shows it... from the profuse use of racial slurs to the "dirtiest song he ever wrote."
Watching this again, as an adult, I got a few more of the jokes, too. Another fun movie to watch on my journey across the Wall.
What's both interesting and depressing to me is that many of the jokes he made then he can't make now. Especially the brilliant gags like "up yours nigger."
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