That was my first Mel Brooks movie; my favorite was Inspector Kemp. Hey, I was six!
:rolleyes:
Mentioning Teri Garr is…a…joke. All the given reasons are jokes. I mean, do you think Spaceballs! quality (or lack thereof) is based solely on Daphne Zuniga’s wedding dress?
I go back and forth between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, with The Producers occasionally sneaking into the top spot. Currently, it’s YF.
But I have to confess that Silent Movie is, for me, the honorable mention on the Brooks list. It never fails to crack me up, and is the finest use of the superb physical comedy skills of Marty Feldman. Throw in all the big Hollywood star cameos and Brooks’ subversive parody of the corporate studio culture, and it truly stands up to repeat viewings.
I also enjoy To Be Or Not To Be, though it’s not as good as the Jack Benny original. Also, props to History of the World–though uneven, it satisfies comedically, and is the source of the most quoted line from Brooks’ films, the ubiquitous “It’s good to be the King!”.
My biggest disappointment was Spaceballs. I really had high hopes for it, being a huge Star Wars fan, but so many of the jokes fell flat and the comic timing is haphazard. Joan Rivers as the voice of Dot Matrix could have been very funny, but she sounded like she was reading her lines under heavy sedation. The best performance in the film was Rick Moranis, and even he has given much better performances.
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Er, yes. She sounded like that, but it was only an illusion. Sure.
Young Frankenstein for me simply because it is as funny as Blazing Saddles, but it seems just much more complete in a whole movie sense. Wonderfully directed, acted, Gene Wilder deserved an Oscar nomination but they don’t really give them out for comedic performances (Kevin Kline excepted).
“SED-A-GIVE?!?!”
Shtupp is Yiddish for “fuck.”
You’re just mad about Yoda and “muychendising.”
I can’t breathe in this thing!
But these polls are important! If I vote for something I don’t 100% agree with, there’s no telling what may happen?! 
But, anyways, I voted for Spaceballs!. I honestly think it was good. I saw Blazing Saddles, and it seemed more like a Monty Python movie, lots of absurd comedy, very little plot. In Spaceballs, there’s an actual story. And while everyone whines about it parodying only Star Wars, I’ve never seen a single Star Wars film, and I still got most of the jokes. Heck, I wonder if they were funnier that way.
As for everything else? Haven’t seen 'em. Maybe they are so amazing that they make Spaceballs! look like crap.
Yes, I knew. It’s an onomatopoeic word for “fuck”. One of Brook’s planned titles for the film was “She Shtupps To Conquer”.
I’d call it the most important film ever made about racism. I mean that very honestly and sincerely.
It’s a damn shame that Richard Pryor wasn’t stable enough to star in the film as planned, although Cleavon Little was excellent.
Wait a minute!
Skald is black?!?
I heard he was hung!
On the other hand, that explains a lot.
Satch (pigmentally challanged as well for anyone playing along at home)
Well, he might be Irish. I am easily confused.
But I voted Young Frankenstein not for Teri but for Marty.
Don’t get me wrong, Teri was primo eye candy.
Marty, on the other hand was primo eyes!
Truer words were never spoke. Writ. Whatevered.
After consulting with the ghosts of James Whale and Boris Karloff, **Young Frankenstein **gets my vote.
“His brain is rotten! Rotten, I tell you!”
“Ixnay on the ottenray!”
I voted YF, and that’s not my favorite scene in Blazing Saddles, but I have to ask - “resort to?” We’re talking about Mel Brooks here. He does lowbrow comedy. He’s done more with it than just about anybody and never pretended to do anything else. Blazing Saddles resorts to fart jokes like Hamlet resorts to being a ghost story.
The silence must be deafening. 
…and photographed. The movie just looks beautiful.
**Young Frankenstein **was a favorite of mine until History of the World Part I came out and then I changed my loyalty due to one thing: " The Inquisition “. I remember me and my friend laughing hysterically and telling my mom all about and she getting positively indignant because” there is NOTHING funny about the religious persecution and torture of innocent people (mom wasn’t usually so humorless but she could get rather Godwinesque at times)".
Also, to this day I still say “Don’t get saucy with me, Bernaise”.
Teri Garr screwed up "Tootsie’. It was unbelievable that the hero would leave Teri to go after Jessica Lange. Such complete impossibility makes the movie hard to follow after that.