# What's your favorite Mel Brooks movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662 "2014-01-25T02:07:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/1 "2014-01-25T02:07:17Z")
What’s your favorite Mel Brooks movie? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/2 "2014-01-25T02:21:10Z")
_ **The Producers** _, hands down. Followed by \*\*\*The Twelve Chairs Blazing Saddles Dead and Loving It\*\*\* in that order. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/3 "2014-01-25T02:23:42Z")
You left out _ **To Be or Not To Be** _. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/4 "2014-01-25T02:31:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > You left out _ **To Be or Not To Be** _. ☹ Sorry I only included films he directed, [from here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mel_Brooks_films) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/5 "2014-01-25T02:34:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sorry I only included films he directed, [from here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mel_Brooks_films) Aha! Never mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/6 "2014-01-25T02:38:27Z")
**Blazing Saddles** is one of my top few favorite comedies ever. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/7 "2014-01-25T02:48:12Z")
Mel peaked with his first movie. **The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein** After that, silence. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/8 "2014-01-25T03:00:34Z")
I’ve seen 'em all, liked or loved most of 'em, but _Young Frankenstein_ is the pinnacle. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/9 "2014-01-25T03:04:04Z")
Young Frankenshteen. Just saw this recently, still great. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/10 "2014-01-25T03:08:11Z")
I picked Young Frankenstein because it’s a better made, more structured movie. But for sheer, gut-busting laughs Blazing Saddles wins hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/11 "2014-01-25T03:14:44Z")
We’ve done this before. The answer is always Young Frankenstein. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/12 "2014-01-25T03:45:08Z")
**Young Frankenstein** is the only choice. It’s his only film that is consistently funny and where his over-the-top sensibility works throughout. **Blazing Saddles** is uneven (though with some great high points) and **The Producers** works because of Zero Mostel. **Silent Movie** was OK, but nothing great, but all his movies after that were more and more uneven. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/13 "2014-01-25T03:56:17Z")
Sorry, but I get no kick out of **Young Frankenstein** and fail to understand the love for it. Except for _Putting on the Ritz_ I don’t think much of it’s funny. **Blazing Saddles** is getting funnier every year. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/14 "2014-01-25T04:17:04Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > …and **The Producers** works because of Zero Mostel. Isn’t that like saying JLo only works because of her ass? There’s very little that endures that let’s us remember how great Zero Mostel was. I knew very little about him until I saw the **The Producers** , yet he instantly shot to the top of the heap. It’s an amazing performance, and possibly the best comic performance ever. **The Producers, Blazing Saddles** and **Young Frankenstein** make up the Holy Trinity of movie comedies, IMO, and **The Producers** takes the #1 spot. Mel Brooks is God, if for only what he did during that 7 year span. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/15 "2014-01-25T04:27:21Z")
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are great (as is The Producers), but Spaceballs is the only movie I’ve ever owned on VHS, DVD _and_ Blu-Ray. It’s a personal fave. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/16 "2014-01-25T04:38:34Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > But for sheer, gut-busting laughs Blazing Saddles wins hands down. And that’s why it gets my vote. Nobody quotes YF, but most people know at least one or two from Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/17 "2014-01-25T04:42:11Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > And that’s why it gets my vote. Nobody quotes YF, but most people know at least one or two from Saddles. That’s behind my vote as well. I think I can quote almost all of the funny lines in _Raising Arizona_ which is also in my Top Few. And I do rate Mel a little higher than the Coens, but not by much. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/18 "2014-01-25T04:43:48Z")
**The Producers** is the one I quote from the most. “What do you want, you fish-faced enemy of the people?” gets used quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/19 "2014-01-25T05:28:28Z")
_History of the World, Part I_ gets my vote, followed by _Blazing Saddles_. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662/20 "2014-01-25T05:35:38Z")
I voted _Blazing Saddles_, but, I admit, I’ve never seen _The Producers_. Some research is in order. _Young Frankenstein_ is another clear vote, but I’m also quite a fan of _History of the World_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-mel-brooks-movie/679662.md?page=2)