The Twelve Chairs (1970)
[3] There are a couple of Mel Brooks movies that I kinda like, at least a little bit, but for the most part, I don't get them. The Twelve Chairs is no different. Frank Langella, Ron Moody, and Dom DeLuise…
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
[4] When I ask myself why I like so few Mel Brooks movies, I think the answer has to do with character investment. Even in a parody movie, I still need it. There just isn't much to latch onto here.…
To Be or Not To Be (1983)
[7] Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft star as leaders of a Polish theater troop forced to entertain the Nazis while simultaneously plotting their escape to Allied territory. You might think the material is too heavy for a comedy, but To…
High Anxiety (1977)
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Mel Brooks sends up Alfred Hitchcock in High Anxiety, a spoof centered around a psychiatrist who uncovers shenanigans at ‘The Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous’. Brooks plays the shrink, a man who must cope with his own ‘high anxiety’ while getting to the bottom of a murder mystery before the Institute’s nefarious head nurse and former administrator order him killed! Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman are stand-outs as the villains. In one scene, you see the hunch-backed, mustached Leachman don a Nazi uniform when she lashes the bound Korman during a clandestine S&M session.
Silent Movie (1976)
[5] Three charlatan filmmakers try to save a studio from corporate takeover by uniting all of Hollywood's biggest stars into one big movie -- a silent one! And the title of this Mel Brooks yuk fest isn't an empty boast…
The Muppet Movie (1979)
[9] Jim Henson's Muppets make the leap from television to the silver screen in this comedy-musical road trip across America that shows us how the foam and felt vaudeville troupe found each other and entered show business. We meet Kermit…