# Producers: The Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252 "2005-12-26T14:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/21 "2006-01-01T15:09:27Z")
Sorry I forgot the hideous _Life Sucks_ which would qualify as anyone’s worst movie. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/22 "2006-01-02T04:47:50Z")
Saw this late Thursday night and found it not great but fairly enjoyable. I think if you haven’t seen the 1968 movie, you’d probably enjoy it more. I thought most of the best gags in the new film were holdovers from the original version. Of the new stuff, my favorite was the “Don’t Say Good Luck” number. > [@twickster](#): > > … and what was with Matthew Broderick’s weird voice? I thought Broderick’s performance was the weakest aspect of the movie. He was too affected. As for his voice, it sounded like he was trying to channel Jerry Lewis’ nebbishy title character from **The Nutty Professor**. Also, it looked like he was either wearing “funny” front teeth or was pursing his lips so he looked more like Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/23 "2006-01-02T07:18:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > They did. They replaced in another scene with a movie set joke, when Ulla/Uma (there’s David Letterman’s next gag) asks Matthew Broderick > > Why Bloom moves always to camera right when Ulla around? > > or something similar. Close. He asks when she had time to paint the office, she says, “Ulla skip lunch.” “Intermission” was better. Uma was miscast. Being tall, blonde, and Swedish (her mother) doesn’t excuse one the responsibility of actually having to _act_. And she doesn’t do it well here. It didn’t translate well, but it’s still better than 85% of what Hollywood produces ([Last Holiday](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408985/), anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/24 "2006-01-02T16:18:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Close. He asks when she had time to paint the office, she says, “Ulla skip lunch.” You’re confusing two different jokes. (I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have seen the play). The joke **Sampiro** was referring to originally went something to the effect of “Why Bloom move so far down stage right?” ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/25 "2006-01-02T17:18:57Z")
I saw The Producers in Toronto, on stage, and while I liked it, I didn’t like it a lot, especially because of the sheer power of overacting. When the Springtime for Hitler parts seem more realistic and less stagey than the rest of the play, that strikes me as a bit of a problem. I imagine it’s intentional: ‘Our satirical play is even more satirical than our satirical play within a satirical play’ but it was just so overblown that it made my head hurt. Take all that stage overacting and translate it to a movie screen where overacting is so much more obvious and it makes my head hurt quite a lot more. Where I liked the stage musical despite the overacting, the overacting was just so much larger on the screen, and I didn’t like it all. I saw The Lion, The Witch and The Warddrobe immediately after, though, and it was lovely and erased my headache entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/26 "2006-01-02T19:39:35Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > You’re confusing two different jokes. (I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have seen the play). The joke **Sampiro** was referring to originally went something to the effect of “Why Bloom move so far down stage right?” I disagree. The post to which **Sampiro** was referring said: > [@](#): > > Am I assuming correctly that > they cut out the “intermission” joke in this? That was **mobo85** ’s post. The “intermission” joke wasn’t cut, it was changed to “Ulla skip lunch.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252/27 "2006-01-02T22:13:44Z")
Well, the joke _I_ was referring to was yet another joke: During the song _Betrayed_, Bialystock is in jail remincing about everything that has happened in the musical up to this point, singing excertps from each of the songs. During one portion of the song, he shouts “INTERMISSION!” and sits in silence. (It happens to be the point of his reminice where the intermission actually occured). **Sampiro** ’s original post contained the line “They replaced in another scene with a movie set joke (sic),” so he obviously knew he wasn’t talking about the same scene. **Superdude** believed **Sampiro** was talking about _another_ scene, and he also confused the original scene I was thinking of with another scene in which “Intermission” is the punchline. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/producers-the-movie/337252.md?page=1)