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The Twelve Chairs **** (1970, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Diana Coupland, David Lander, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 4,133

Mel Brooks’s witty and amusing 1970 movie version of the classic Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs stars Ron Moody as a poor Russian government clerk chasing a dozen similar dining seats, one of which […]

Aug, 06

The Producers *** (2005, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Michael McKean, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 4131

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick re-create their Broadway stage roles in director Susan Stroman’s entertaining 2005 movie of the hit Broadway and London stage show of the old Mel Brooks film classic, The Producers (1968). Ideally […]

Aug, 05

Life Stinks *** (1991, Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin) – Classic Movie Review 3,028

Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who takes a bet with a rival property developer that he can’t live as a penniless tramp on the streets of LA for a month, in his 1991 film Life […]

Nov, 02

Hotel Transylvania 2 *** (2015, voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Mel Brooks) – Movie Review

Hotel Transylvania 2 is mild and minor but it is quite pleasant, amusing and fun. Adam Sandler returns as the voice of Dracula, whose daughter Mavis (voice of Selena Gomez) has married human Johnny (Andy Samberg) […]

Sep, 27

Robin Hood: Men in Tights *** (1993, Cary Elwes, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Patrick Stewart, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2,636

Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John and what made Will Scarlet. Mel Brooks’s 1993 spoof comedy film Robin Hood: Men in Tights is amiable and amusing. ‘The legend had it coming… Find […]

Jun, 24

To Be or Not To Be **** (1983, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, José Ferrer, James Haake, George Gaynes, Christopher Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 1,944

The surprisingly entertaining and successful 1983 remake of the classic 1942 wartime comedy drama To Be or Not To Be stars Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft. Director Alan Johnson’s surprisingly entertaining and successful […]

Dec, 10

The Producers ***** (1968, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars) – Classic Movie Review 1,942

Mel Brooks’ inspired 1968 first film The Producers is a wonderfully tasteless look at the devilish staging of a Broadway flop. Writer-director Mel Brooks’s inspired 1968 first film The Producers is a wonderfully tasteless look […]

Dec, 09

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