Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 57 | Rotten: 4
A hilarious satire of the business side of Hollywood, The Producers is one of Mel Brooks' finest, as well as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
A hilarious satire of the business side of Hollywood, The Producers is one of Mel Brooks' finest, as well as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
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Theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was once the toast of Broadway. Now he lives in his seedy office, cadging cash contributions from wealthy old ladies in exchange for sexual favors. Even worse, he's reduced to wearing a cardboard belt. Max's new accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), the soul of honesty, suggests that Max produce a hit to try to recoup his losses, but Max knows that it's too late for that. Offhandedly, Leo muses that, if Max found investors for a flop, he could
Jun 1, 1968 Wide
Dec 3, 2002
AVCO Embassy Pictures
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The Producers has many things going for it -- notably a wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines.
Top CriticMel Brooks has turned a funny idea into a slapstick film, thanks to the performers, particularly Zero Mostel.
Everything that can go wrong in an amateur film does go wrong, from the timing to the structure to the pitch of the performances.
Some of it is shoddy and gross and cruel; the rest is funny in an entirely unexpected way.
The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
The film is ripe with treasures worth rediscovering.
Slapstick comedy-musical -- not meant for kids.
Like The Producers itself, Springtime for Hitler, with its Busby Berkeley-meets-Leni Riefenstahl choreography and creatively crude lyrics, ends up proving that bad taste can be irresistible.
Quite possibly Brooks's finest hour.
The original, and by far the best.
An anarchic reminder that laughter can be mightier than the sword.
Brooks' first feature, an absolutely hilarious and tasteless New York Jewish comedy about Broadway.
You don't need to be a WWII vet to feel the glee as the movie invites us to dance on Hitler's grave.
Headlining the DVD extras is The Making of The Producers, a generous five-part, hour-long feature from 2002 by Laurent Bouzereau.
If you love and understand live theatre, or the old-school movie musicals of the 1940s, you will enjoy this much more than people who cannot transfer their minds to that world.
Wilder's like a baby monkey--you get the feeling he'd cling to your leg if you let him.
A Broadway producer and his accountant team up to make a flop as part of a get-rich-quick scheme.Maybe it's because this film is an oft-imitated classic, but I found much of the plot and gags to be predictable. Zero Mostel's performance was over-the-top, and even Gene Wilder occasionally abandoned his deadpan, "I'm in
December 7, 2011
Super Reviewer
One of Mel Brooks best, ably carried by Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, around the theme ( like the song ) There's No Business Like Show Business. Dated a bit but still noteworthy, still funny.
September 8, 2007Super Reviewer
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