Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) (B0001Z4OXS)

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Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Louis Gossett Jr., Steve Landesberg, Millie Slavin
Directed by: Mel Brooks, Robert Butler
Binding: DVD
Published: 2004-06-29
ISBN: 0790757354

$4.35

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The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got.and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours.But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, h
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Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

Editorial Review:

The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Still the King of Farce:

Mel Brooks is still the undisputed King of Farce. This movie is still the leading exponent of truly outrageous farce. With his fabulous cast (Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and Cleavon Little, Brooks hit upon every prejudice, foible and behavior of the '70s, and made mincemeat of them. Nothing subtle about it, but that's the point of farce. A classic to own.

A More Crude Version of Men In Tights:

I've seen a few Mel Brooks movies, so I'm a bit familiar with his style. It's always silly, but in a way that works. Blazing Saddles is no exception. It's about as funny as Robin Hood Men in Tights, which is a good thing, but it's really nasty in a lot of places, especially with regards to racism. Still, Blazing Saddles probably does paint an accurate picture of how harsh racism was back in the late 1800's, even though I'm sure that's not what Mel Brooks was aiming for when he donned the jacket with "GOV"... more info

Classy:

What a crazy movie, seen it so many times but I still bought the DVD. But now that I have it I havent even taken it out of the dvd. how ironic.

Tasteless and lame comedy à la Family Guy:

Racism, sexism. Every ism thrown together so as to almost induce vomiting. I heard before watching that this movie was "politically incorrect". That is not the half of it! This is clearly only meant for the enjoyment of white men who have no sense of social equality or for the brainless of any race or sex, i.e. the kind of people who enjoy watching Family Guy.
If you want a silly but clever Western spoof, watch the Paleface

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