What Is Your Favorite Mel Brooks Movie?

12 Chairs (No votes)
The Producers (the original not the remake)
Total votes: 4 (7%)
Blazing Saddles
Total votes: 25 (43%)
Young Frankenstein
Total votes: 18 (31%)
Silent Movie (No votes)
High Anxiety
Total votes: 1 (2%)
History of the World
Total votes: 4 (7%)
Spaceballs
Total votes: 6 (10%)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (No votes)
Total votes: 58

What is your favorite Mel Brooks movie?

52
Such a tough decision. I voted for Young Frankenstein. The first time I saw it I thought the pace was almost unbearably slow, but I was going in with expectations based on Mel's other, more manic films. The pacing is actually really close to the kinds of films it is sending up, and is actually just right.

Werewolf?

There! Wolf!

There's a few I'm not familiar with but the Producers, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, History of the World and Spaceballs are all great in my book. The quality tails off a bit, but not so far as to actually be bad or unenjoyable. Just less good.

What is your favorite Mel Brooks movie?

53
When I was a kid, my mom would occasionally comment (with a grin) to my dad that he hadn't touched his food. He would stick his hands in it and yell, "There, I touched it!" This is a family classic, and up there with Fast Times as an all-time comedy for me. Plus, mid-70s era Teri Garr makes me a bit weak.

Feldman, Hackman, Kahn, Leachman, Brooks himself as the cat getting hit by a dart.

With respect to some other great ones, Young Frankenstein, easily

What is your favorite Mel Brooks movie?

58
"Excuse me while I whip this out..."

I love Young Frankenstein. I do.

However, I have watched Blazing Saddles hundreds of times over since I was about 4 years old. It is crass and hilarious. It is...

"Mongo only pawn...in game of LIFE."

"Give the Governor a HARUMPH!!!"

"I'm not a wabbit!/ I need some weeeeessssttttt!!!"

Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.


I can understand not "getting" Young Frankenstein. However, if you don't get Blazing Saddles...God save your poor soul.
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

-Gustave Flaubert

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