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Mel Brooks - what members say


  • Blazing Saddles
  • Blazing Saddles review by A customer from Flint
    Rated - 4 stars Funny, and will remain so for years to come 20 September 2003
    ... but also be able to tell a good story. 'Blazing Saddles' meets this challenge. Mel Brooks has taken the typical 'classical' western story and turned it upside down. The ...  
  • Robin Hood - Men In Tights
  • Robin Hood - Men In Tights review by Roberta#1 from TWICKENHAM
    Rated - 5 stars 9 April 2004
    ...time favourite movie, no matter how many times I watch it. The comic genius of Mel Brooks taking on the Robin Hood legend....well, as the man said, he had it coming. ...  
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Young Frankenstein review by Minty from the Midlands
    Rated - 4 stars A Comedy Classic 24 January 2004
    ...not as stupid as some of Mel Brooks' other work, this has some genuinely funny moments with some great acting from the likes of Peter Boyle (Dream Team) and Gene Wilder (...  

Mel Brooks - filmography


  • Screw Loose (2000)
    Starring: Mel Brooks,  Ezio Greggio,  Julie Condra
    Director: Ezio Greggio
    Certificate: 12
    Following the adventures of Bernado Puccini and Jake Gordon. When Bernado liberates Jake from a mental institution to reunite him with his father things don't quite go according to plan..........
    Rate this: 2.0 36% from 5 members
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  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
    Starring: Leslie Nielsen,  Peter MacNicol,  Steven Weber
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: TBC
    Count Dracula (Leslie Nielsen) has a longing to free the damp climate of his native home and leave the bats, spiders and draughty corridors behind. Short of eligible virgins to get his teeth into he looks towards England. Count Dracula, with his American European accent, is all set to take ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 210 members
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  • Life Stinks on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Mel Brooks,  Lesley Ann Warren,  Jeffrey Tambor
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 12
    In 'Life Stinks', Goddard Bolt, a billionaire developer, is challenged by business rival Vance Crasswell to live on the streets without money for one month among the homeless both men are trying to further displace by building on the property that is their only home. Goddard is forced to dance for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 273 members
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  • Get Smart Again on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Don Adams,  Barbara Feldon
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: PG
    This film is based on the American comedy series `Get Smart' in which Maxwell Smart is called out of his retirement to save the world once again. He is delighted with the thought of being re-activated and his wife, 99, wants to get involved too. However, she's already more involved than she knows...
    Rate this: 2.5 48% from 173 members
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  • Spaceballs (2 discs) on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Mel Brooks,  John Candy,  Rick Moranis
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 12
    In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 2,239 members
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  • High Anxiety on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Mel Brooks,  Madeline Kahn,  Cloris Leachman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 15
    In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 67% from 230 members
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  • Silent Movie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Marty Feldman,  Marcel Marceau,  Mel Brooks
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: PG
    The film 'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days for one thing, he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 174 members
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  • Young Frankenstein on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Peter Boyle,  Marty Feldman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 15
    An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 74% from 1,635 members
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  • Blazing Saddles on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Cleavon Little,  Gene Wilder,  Slim Pickens
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 15
    A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 2,669 members
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  • Blazing Saddles - HD DVD Version (1974)
    Starring: Alex Karras,  Madeline Kahn,  Gene Wilder
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: 15
    A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 173 members
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  • Twelve Chairs on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Mel Brooks,  Dom Deluise,  Ron Moody
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: U
    A stylish, frantic fable and one of director Mel Brooks's earliest films, 'The Twelve Chairs' is a madcap mystery set in revolutionary Russia. An aging ex-nobleman of the czarist regime, Count I.M. Vorobyaninov, has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. But when both he and the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 127 members
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  • The Producers (2 discs) on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Zero Mostel,  Gene Wilder,  Dick Shawn
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: PG
    An early Mel Brooks classic and regarded by many as one of his best. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), one-time King of Broadway, now living upon the crazy whims and cash of amorous old ladies meets Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), a neurotic accountant. Together they plan to produce the biggest theatrical ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 1,438 members
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Mel Brooks - downloads


  • Robots for Download (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  ewan mcgregor (voice),  halle berry (voice)
    Director: Chris Wedge,  Carlos Saldanha
    Certificate: PG
    Rent from: £2.99
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    Run time: 86 minutes
    Set on a world populated entirely by robots, this is the story of a young genius, Rodney (Ewan McGregor), who wants to make robots capable of making the world a better place, but he finds his dream challenged by a corporate tyrant and a master inventor, Big Weld (Mel Brooks), while also being ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 7 members
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Mel Brooks facts

5 most recent films


Robots - 3.5 stars
Producers, The - A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks - 2.5 stars
Screw Loose - 2.0 stars
Dracula: Dead and Loving It - 3.0 stars
The Little Rascals - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
The Little Rascals - 3.5 stars
Young Frankenstein - 3.5 stars
Blazing Saddles - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Blazing Saddles - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Screw Loose - 2.0 stars
Jakers! - Sheep On The Loose - 3.0 stars
Producers, The - A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks - 2.5 stars
Get Smart Again - 2.5 stars
Twelve Chairs - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Madeline Kahn - 11 times - show films
Gene Wilder - 8 times - show films
Cleavon Little - 6 times - show films
Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. - 6 times - show films
Harvey Korman - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Carlos Saldanha - 2 times - show films
Chris Wedge - 2 times - show films
Alan Johnson - 1 times - show films
Penelope Spheeris - 1 times - show films
Susan Fromke - 1 times - show films