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Mel Brooks’s 1981, three-part comedy–set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution–is pure guilty pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar’s soldiers (the other Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works best if you’re in a take-it-or-leave-it mood. –Tom Keogh … More >>
#1 by Big Bertha on March 12, 2010 - 12:40 pm
This is a terrible, terrible movie. This is not funny at all. Seriously. This is not funny. I had to turn it off halfway through. This is not a joke review. This is mel brooks worst film.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by James Carpenter on March 12, 2010 - 1:51 pm
I am a Mel Brooks fan – I watch Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein at least once a year, and I have seen most of Mel’s other films. This one is the worst of the lot, a certifiable stinker, incoherent, self-indulgent, and definitely not funny. I watched the entire film waiting for the laughs to come, but they never did. And after all, this is a Mel Brooks movie – if it’s not funny, what is the point?
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Eltopo on March 12, 2010 - 4:37 pm
… the begginning was funny..until it got to the roman empire part…really stupid..u can find alot more funnier movies then this..spaceballs was better then this…way better..anyhow nuff said…peace
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Abby on March 12, 2010 - 5:06 pm
This is not a funny movie. There is a difference between being nasty and unfunny, and being funny with the occasional bad joke. Until I saw this, I thought that Mel Brooks was the latter, but this movie is most certainly the former.
It starts out with the cavemen. This part really isn’t so bad, so much as stupid. Sid Ceasar does a good job as the head caveman, with the occasional slightly funny slapstick bit.
Following it is the old testament, where Moses finds the ten commandments. Along with the “Spanish inquisition song” it’s about the only funny part in the whole entire film.
The Roman empire: A bunch of sex jokes. ‘Nuff said.
The Spanish Inquisition: About the only funny part in the film. Wish it was longer.
The French Revolution: I didn’t even get through the whole thing. I turned it off after the scene where King Louis (Brooks) plays a human chess game that ends up in a gang bang on the queen.
In conclusion: A VERY sophomoric film that isn’t even funny, and is nastier than anything of its time. DO NOT WATCH THIS, IT’S A WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND MONEY!
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by H. Jansen on March 12, 2010 - 7:27 pm
The DVD you supplied does not play in South Africa because it is coded for a different zone (Ithink it is called). I would have thought that you export DVDs to South Africa regularly and know what zone/code/area we have here. Is there any way I can fix this problem?
Rating: 1 / 5