The Producers (Special Edition) DVD

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starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder directed by: Mel Brooks

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Average Rating: Rating: - Zero is Hero - One of the great comedies Zero Mostel glides and sparkles like a medal-winning ice dancer in Mel Brook's irreverent masterpiece. A terrifcally tasteless script is rewarded with some of the most outrageous performances ever grouped for one sitting. Mostel plays a down-at-heel producer looking for an easy return to the big time who stumbles on a cert thanks to Leo bloom (played by Gene Wilder). Leo realises you can make more with a sure-fire flop than with a smash, and so they herd together failsafe flops (Kenneth Mars as the Nazi playwight, Dick Shawn as the hippie Hitler and, unforgettably, Christopher Hewitt as director of "dopey dancers in gooey gowns," Roger Debris). Moments of unadulterated joy pepper this movie; Dick Shawn as LSD gives an otherworldly audition for Hitler, the opening scene of "Springtime for Hitler" is a jaw dropper and Zero dancing in the bar at the interval is priceless (even the way he gets from the bar to the jukebox and puts in the coin is poetry). If you haven't seen this gem a dozen times, don't rent it, buy it. It's one you'll never tire of. Rating: - Springtime for Broadway What a great idea that Brooks finally took this movie and adapted it into a stage musical where it belongs! Mel Brooks' true home is the theater, where his gags, madcap humor, and rapid-fire exchanges are what audiences are hungry for. His comedy needs an audience and feeds off of it. This movie, his directoral debut, hinted at that audience-need in it's play-within-a-play: "Springtime For Hitler". I saw this movie just because it was about guys making a musical comedy about Hitler. What isn't funny about that?! I can laugh just thinking about chorus girls dressed in storm-trooper uniforms kick-lining to gunfire. This movie cannot disappoint. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are masters and were both perfect. The plot is necessarily zany and weird. It has all the traditional Brooksian elements as well as revealing a talent for staging musical productions-- this is a hint he picked up on in 2000 with his smash Broadway success. Thank you, Mr. Brooks for continuing to make us laugh. "We're HYSTERICAL! WE'RE HYSTERICAL!!!" Rating: - Another Mel Brooks Classic Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, as producer Maz Bialystack and accountant Leo Bloom, are perfectly fitted in these title roles. Zero is the out of work, out of luck broadway producer, forced to play hanky panky, with old ladies in the premise, not promise, that their checks will go toward producing plays. Gene is the nervous, shy, and constantly panick-stricken accountant with the little blue blanket who comes to balance Max's books. Discovering a minor $2000 discrepancy, he asides to himself, yet loud enough for Maz to hear, that someone can make a fortune by producing a flop. From there, the dream is born, and there is no turning back. Max and Leo embark on a journey to discover the worst play ever written, sure to close on page four. They find it in "Springtime For Hitler", a supposed tribute to Adolf Hitter written by one of his still remaining loyal soldiers. Once the play, and the playwrite are secured, the two need to find the worst director. They find him in Christopher Hewitt (of Mr. Belvidere fame); another wacky recluse who fits so well in this movie. With everything complete, including the worst cast assembled for "Springtime for Hitler, Max and Leo are on top of the world, counting the minutes to their ultimate success, or failure, as it were. In the bar across the street from where the play is going on, they are toasting their scheme as an intermission occurs. People watching the play file in and begin raving about the play, and exclaim it will run for years. Suddenly, the play that was doomed to fail is now a success, and with 25,000% worth of shares sold, Max and Leo realize they are in a little bit of trouble. What are they to do? Only Mel Brooks could come up with a solution for that one. This is an outrageously funny movie, and one of Mel Brooks best, next to "Blazing Saddles", and contains everything we want, and should expect, from Brooks. I highly recommend it.

The Producers (Special Edition) DVD

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