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Title: Hit and miss humor.... mostly misses.
Review: Being a classic Mel Brook's film does not keep me from giving a rating I think this movie deserves. A bad one. This is coming from a big parody fan. Most jokes are unfunny and the characters aren't nearly cartoony enough, with the exception of Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks himself. The main villain couldn't be less funny. I think a good parody requires a hilarious, over the top villain and the movie completely fails in this respect. I judge parodies by how often and how hard they can make me laugh and this one only made me chuckle every ten minutes or so. That just isn't good enough. The funniest jokes involved Gene Wilder's character and his hilariously exaggerated reflexes, but there aren't many of them. The ending is ridiculously silly even by parody standards.I am a much larger fan of Brooks' later works such as Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. In my opinion, they are all superior to Blazing Saddles.
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