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Jun 16, 2024 · But Mel Brooks, who is 97, is most beloved for his films — almost all of them parodies of beloved movie genres, from silent movies to monster movies to Westerns. Here are all 11 Mel Brooks movies, ranked from entertaining to hilarious.
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It
- Life Stinks!
- The Twelve Chairs
- History of The World, Part 1
- High Anxiety
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- The Producers
- Spaceballs
- Silent Movie
- To Be Or Not to Be
...but we come close. This, unfortunately, is the last film Brooks has directed. It’s a shame that the jokes cannot match the movie’s exceptional production design and costuming, which are remarkable facsimiles of the old Hammer horror films Brooks chooses to satirize in the film. But instead of parodying the conventions of the source material like...
A rare non-parody for the comedy auteur. Also a rarity in that it was a critical and commercial failure, grossing just $4 million on a $13 million budget. Instead of a laugh-a-minute romp, this modern treatment of How the Other Half Lives tells of a rich executive (Brooks) floundering on the streets to win a bet, and the results are more morality t...
This film, Brooks’ second, follows the model of The Producers in examining the morality and relationship between two conmen (Ron Moody, Frank Langella) as they try to find a chair that has jewels hidden in its stitching. One of many film adaptations based upon the 1928 Russian novel of the same name, Brooks’ film follows the mode of an adventure ca...
Theatrical sketch comedy, with pieces humorously depicting cavemen, Moses and the Old Testament; a Roman Empire gone to excess; the Spanish Inquisition; and the French Revolution. There are so many laughs to be had in this film, that were it not for the film’s overall lack of framework or structure, it would likely be higher. The Rome segment bears...
An ode to the Master of Suspense, this Alfred Hitchcock-inspired flick dovetails elements of thriller classics like Psycho, The Birds, and (mostly) Vertigo and Spellbound in its story of an acrophobic psychiatrist (Brooks, naturally) who oversees the strange Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. If there’s a problem with the film, i...
Perhaps the fastest-paced of all of Brooks’ films, this one boasts mile-a-minute one-liners and gags. The effect is akin to being bludgeoned over the head with a hammer; eventually, dazed and numb, you acquiesce to the circumcision-performing rabbis and gravity-bending arrows. Or something like that. Luckily the jokes boast a favorable hit-miss rat...
Controversial at the time of its release, Mel Brooks’ first feature film as a director feels fittingly like a play. Many of its scenes involve the two main figures, sleazy Broadway producer Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and nervous accountant Bloom (Gene Wilder), discussing their plan to produce a theatrical bomb that will net them a (fraudulent) profit...
It’s big, it’s loud, it’s dumb, and it’s pretty funny. Spaceballs is Mel Brooks doing Star Wars, and it’s natural territory for the comic master with the franchise’s easily spoofable setting and characters. Instead of the ornate Millennium Falcon, we get a carpeted RV, and Princess Leia (Daphne Zuniga) is churned out as a caricature of the Jewish A...
Brooks is a man who always conveys a love of the films and genres he satirizes in his pictures. But none are as positively ebullient as Silent Movie, a touching ode to the medium and early comedic heavyweights like Buster Keaton. With a plot as meta as it gets for Brooks, the film’s story follows a director and his two companions (played by Brooks,...
Interestingly for the Brooks canon, the film is not an original work; it’s a remake of a 1942 film about a troupe of actors in war-torn Poland using their abilities to pull one over their Nazi invaders. Additionally, Brooks didn’t write or direct the film (though he produced, and essentially would direct the actors from the sidelines, as recounted ...
Daring, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny, Blazing Saddles is a gleefully vulgar spoof of Westerns that marks a high point in Mel Brooks' storied career. Read Critics Reviews Cast & Crew
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Mar 17, 2024 · Mel Brooks directed several of the 20th-century’s funniest movies, including a few that were especially well-received.
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Mar 2, 2016 · The following is a handy guide through the best Mel Brooks films and TV that are available to stream today. NOTE: Neither Young Frankenstein , Silent Movie, nor The History of the World,...
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Mar 5, 2023 · Watch the History of the World, Part II Trailer. A trailer for History of the World, Part II was released on January 13, 2023. It opens with the brilliant Mel Brooks giving a comedic...
