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Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
By: Warner Home Video
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Product Description: The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started logic is lost in a blizzard of gags jokes quips puns howlers growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale it just proves the Old West will never be the same!Running Time: 93 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391895923Amazon.com essential video: Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
- Best comedy of all time: If you have only seen Blazing Saddles on network TV where all the vulgarities have been dubbed over, you haven't really seen Blazing Saddles. The sanitized version leaves you wondering why people think the movie is funny. The uncensored version leave you laughing, and laughing, and laughing. Heck, I saw it when it first came out and I have watched my VHS copy over the years and I still enjoy it. I bought this DVD version to have a more permanent copy. I don't mind that it lacks a lot of extra content. All I wanted was a good copy of the original movie, and that's what I got.
- A Mel Brooks Classic: Don't buy this movie if you are easily offended; every race and ethnic group is made light hearted fun of. If you are a Mel Brooks fan this is a must have.
- Crazy - Makes Fun of Everyone Generally Great: This is my favorite movie of all time so likely my review will be slanted toward the positive. Still the movie is just completely crazy. Within the first few minutes you instantly get a feel for the sort of humor the movie is going to put you through for the next hour and a half.
The whole premise of the movie too pushes good sense out the window from the get-go. It's surprising to see such a movie do so well but this likely is because of Mel Brook's ability to tastily make fun of everyone without pushing the bar too far in any direction.
I'd say it's definitely the sort of movie you should add to your collection if you love this sort of humor. Definitely a gem in my collection. - Candy gram: He is new to the town and his job, soon he meets a drucnken Jim, and the whole town is upset to have there.
Great movie!! - Go West, Young Man (Rude Noise): What is odd about this movie is that it is still Politically Incorrect. And even after they make a movie about gay cowboys, this is still funny. And there is still no better way to show how small racial politics can make us than to shrink racism with laughter. And politicians still can't keep their pants on. This movie doesn't seem that old any more.
And that scene with the cowboys sitting around the fire, eating beans -- still cracks me up.
There's wit here, not just half-witted antics and toilet humor borrowed from other movies.
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