28th June 2007, 4:30 PM
Eegad, the original Producers is hilarious. I highly recommend renting it. Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel have great chemistry, and are both really funny in it.
For those who don't know, the Producers is a story about a Broadway producer and his accountant who figure out a loop-hole in which if they raise enough money and produce a show that they know will flop, they can keep the millions for themselves. So they choose a play called "Springtime for Hitler", written by a crazy nazi in Manhattan, and assign a transsexual hack for a director and a bum burned out on LSD for the starring role. Hilarity ensues.
This is even consistently funnier than History of the World (Part 1), although the latter still has the winning scene of the Spanish Inquisition musical number (don't you love Mel Brooks?).
I've also seen the remake, which was released a couple years ago. The original is better all around, but the remake has Will Ferrell in one of his few good roles as the crazy nazi author, and unexpectedly delivers better than Kenneth Mars of the original. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are also shoe-ins for the leading roles.
Anyway. Go rent "The Producers". In the mean time, I'm gonna be watching Blazing Saddles, another Brooks movie that's supposed to be great. Is it me, or is his old stuff much better? Spaceballs was good, but it was also a bit of a turning point, and while Robin Hood: Men In Tights was pretty funny, it was also a little too corny.
Alright, alright, that's the last tangent. Thread, off.
For those who don't know, the Producers is a story about a Broadway producer and his accountant who figure out a loop-hole in which if they raise enough money and produce a show that they know will flop, they can keep the millions for themselves. So they choose a play called "Springtime for Hitler", written by a crazy nazi in Manhattan, and assign a transsexual hack for a director and a bum burned out on LSD for the starring role. Hilarity ensues.
This is even consistently funnier than History of the World (Part 1), although the latter still has the winning scene of the Spanish Inquisition musical number (don't you love Mel Brooks?).
I've also seen the remake, which was released a couple years ago. The original is better all around, but the remake has Will Ferrell in one of his few good roles as the crazy nazi author, and unexpectedly delivers better than Kenneth Mars of the original. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are also shoe-ins for the leading roles.
Anyway. Go rent "The Producers". In the mean time, I'm gonna be watching Blazing Saddles, another Brooks movie that's supposed to be great. Is it me, or is his old stuff much better? Spaceballs was good, but it was also a bit of a turning point, and while Robin Hood: Men In Tights was pretty funny, it was also a little too corny.
Alright, alright, that's the last tangent. Thread, off.