And its counterpart from last April.
I love both, but I will pick Young Frankenstein as the better.
Young Frankenstein, no doubt.
“Could be worse. Could be raining.”
I like both movies, but the scene with Peter Boyle as the monster and Gene Hackman as the blind monk was probably the funniest five minutes in film.
“Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make espresso!”
BS is the better film. YF always got a “meh” Funny and all, but not all that and cookies too.
Young FrANKHenSteen, is the best.
I agree.
Additionally, while in general I think both films are great, I don’t like the way BS breaks the fourth wall at the end; it seems to me to be a failure of plot. I think the same thing about Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
And YF does seem to work better as a movie, with a much better plot and an ending which stays true to life as represented by the movie. BS:YF::The Cocoanuts:A Night At The Opera.
Young Frankenstein, hands down.
As has been mentioned above, there are a lot of great jokes in Blazing Saddles, but it’s not a great story. And the ending is awful; I get why Brooks did it, but I don’t think it’s at all funny, and it kills all the humor before it.
Young Frankenstein is a better movie. There aren’t as many great gags, but the humor is more integrated into a story. And just try saying “Blucher” in a crowded room.
Since Blazing Saddles is eclipsed by Rustler’s Rhapsody as the greatest Western of all time, and Young Frankenstein isn’t eclipsed by anything as the greatest B-grade monster movie of all time, I have to go with Young Frankenstein.
I can’t pick. It’s not fair.
YF! The good doctor was teaching at my medical school in his first scene!
BS is pretty good, though.
Sweet! I’ll have to remember that next time I watch it!
Same, except that I didn’t find BF to be as funny, except in spots. To me at least, potty humor is irritating, not funny. YF was much more consistantly funny, at least for me.
Young Frankenstein. I’ve got the full-sized poster hanging in my hallway.
I know Young Frankenstein has always been the critical favorite but, personally, I’ve always prefered Blazing Saddles.
I think the thing we can all agree on was that 1974 was a great year for Brooks.
I prefered *Young Frankenstein * at the time, and still do. I dislike bathroom humor, of which very little could be found in YF, and plenty in BS.
Still, I have to speculate that the quite iconic scene at the campfire would be recognized by more people than any other Mel Brooks movie, which may be why BS gets the nod on the list. Also, there isn’t anything really provocative in YF, whereas the whole of BS takes on all sorts of stereotyping and racial issues.
I’d give the nod th YF for the reasons mostly named, but it’s not much. IIRC, gene wilder had much more creative imput to YF, and there was so much dispute about that they never worked together again. Our loss if you ask me.
having rewatched BS recently and been bored (so bored, I turned it off), I vote for YF.
Someone can recount if they want but I did a quick tally and got;
25 votes for Young Frankenstein
2 for Blazing Saddles
and
5 can’t decide between the two
Your boyfriend is only funny in spots? 
Well since a buddy of mine was an extra in BS*, and I have never laughed so hard in my life, I have to go with BS
YF is a better made film, I will give you that.
“Somebody ride back and get a shitload of dimes!”
*The scene where they are signing up bad guys? You recall the two “bikers” on horses with ape hanger handlebars sprouting out of the front of the saddle? The first guy, the one that has the pony tail is my buddy Skip.