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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.
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Mel Brooks has come up with his most outrageous comedy to date in the brilliantly funny Blazing Saddles. Feb 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Mel Brooks has come up with his most outrageous comedy to date in the brilliantly funny Blazing Saddles.
Ron Pennington
Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.' Aug 22, 2008 | Full Review…
Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'
Richard Schickel
One of the funniest awful movies ever made. Apr 2, 2008 | Full Review…
One of the funniest awful movies ever made.
Don Druker
Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon. Apr 2, 2008 | Full Review…
Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon.
Variety Staff
The screenplay is credited to five writers, and it shows in the confused melange of styles. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The screenplay is credited to five writers, and it shows in the confused melange of styles.
It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken.
Roger Ebert
by making harmless staples of Western films, such as Gabby Hayes, talk like real-life small-minded white men is unsettling and damning of the unspoken bigotry and entitlement in what is often perceived as harmless Americana. Feb 7, 2019 | Full Review…
by making harmless staples of Western films, such as Gabby Hayes, talk like real-life small-minded white men is unsettling and damning of the unspoken bigotry and entitlement in what is often perceived as harmless Americana.
David Crow
An extraordinarily gutsy film. Jul 3, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An extraordinarily gutsy film.
Tim Brayton
More than simply a loving spoof of Hollywood westerns, Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies ever made... and one of the most audacious satires of racism to come out of Hollywood. Jun 14, 2017 | Full Review…
More than simply a loving spoof of Hollywood westerns, Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies ever made... and one of the most audacious satires of racism to come out of Hollywood.
Sean Axmaker
Its genius, then and now, was the manner in which director Mel Brooks and his writers turned a broad Western spoof into what was, for its time, a revolutionary satire of race relations. Jun 18, 2016 | Full Review…
Its genius, then and now, was the manner in which director Mel Brooks and his writers turned a broad Western spoof into what was, for its time, a revolutionary satire of race relations.
Jason Bailey
A movie that neither blazes or misfires, falling somewhere between the horrors of Spaceballs and the genius of Young Frankenstein. May 1, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A movie that neither blazes or misfires, falling somewhere between the horrors of Spaceballs and the genius of Young Frankenstein.
This all-singing, all-belching western spoof remains one of Mel Brooks's finest creations. May 1, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This all-singing, all-belching western spoof remains one of Mel Brooks's finest creations.
John Ferguson
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