Blazing Saddles [Blu-ray] starring
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim
Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline
Kahn
What A Classic
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 Kahns
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
This is not only classic Mel Brooks but it is classic farce and satire all rolled
into one. Something EVERYONE should see.
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