Mel Brooks' History of the World -- Part I (B00000K3CQ)

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Mel Brooks' History of the World -- Part I

Starring: Mel Brooks, Gregory Hines, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Binding: DVD
Published: 1999-12-28

$19.96

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Color
DVD
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Mel Brooks' History of the World -- Part I

Editorial Review:

Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar's soldiers (the other Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works best if you're in a take-it-or-leave-it mood. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

i didn't find it funny except for one gag:

i may have managed a few few smiles here and there throughout the
movie,but there was nothing about it would consider
funny.actually,scratch that.there was one gag i did find a bit funny
the first couple of times.after that,it wore thin,though.i didn't find
the movie boring though,and it was watchable.as a movie,it's not
bad.as a comedy,it's a different story.if i hadn't known it was
supposed to be a comedy,i would have had different expectations.i'm not
sure why i... more info

Great experience:

I ordered this movie for my dad for Christmas. He and I have always been huge Mel Brooks fans and this movie has been one of our favorites through the years. Now that he's not able to get out as much, he can watch History of the World at home and laugh to his heart's content. Everytime we watch it, we discover another great one-liner we missed before. GREAT movie!!!

History of the World Part 1:

Irreverant movie that I first saw when it came to the theater. As it says on the cover something to offend everyone. It is just plan silly and funny. Mel Brooks is very funny.

A hit-and-miss history lesson from Mel:

The moment I saw the opening scene with our shaggy forefathers reaching for the sky--and then dropping their hands to masturbate--I knew this was going to be a crude & bawdy Mel Brooks comedy. The bad news: Written solely by Brooks and, of course, directed by him, any failings the movie has rests squarely on his shoulders. Being an episodic collection of moments in history, it has so many highs & lows that you're laughing out loud one minute and groaning the next. The pace tends to ramble on, making... more info

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