Mel Brooks, at his absolute finest

Rating: 10/10 (31 March 2000)

Mel Brook's The Producers is his best film to date and is personally my favorite Brooks-film. Everything in this film gets together greatly to make one big insane batch of comedy that may be repeated, but not matched.
The acting is a big element here (so is Brooks' Oscar winning script). It includes the great Zero Mostel as a low-life broadway producer, who with a nervy accountant (Gene Wilder in his best performance to date), concoct a plan to make more money from a plot, than from a hit. To do this, they get a crazy Krout (Kenneth Mars) and a hippie actor (Dick Shawn) to
create the worst musical ever- Springtime for Hitler (a gay romp with Eva in Berlich's garden).
Wow. Mel Brooks brings great originality and hilarity in this film that takes nazis, transvestites, and producers named after bagels into one big bundle. Best film of 1968, and possibly the best comedy ever.