Title: The Schtick don't stick
Review: After watching this film, it seems quite obvious this was Mel Brooks's first film. The playing out of the gags, the directing, the progression of the film, it all just didn't feel quite on the mark for Brooks. Sure, it's without a doubt his style, but a whole lot of it isn't funny. Springtime for Hitler is hilarious, sure. Their solution to their dilemma, funny. A Hitler-obsessed writer. It's all there. It simply lacked execution. It's as if the soul was taken out of the flamboiant gags and left us with a shell of what might have been. A good movie that could have been better, at least the first sixty minutes.
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