You Must Watch This Movie

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2005)

The characters in "The Producers" are all over-acted, taking to the extreme what you see on a wacky afternoon soap opera or sit com. Take this (if you can) and add a plot that is preposterous (but convincing), offered to you on a silver platter by some of the best comedic personalities on the planet and what do you get? You get a classic comedy that invokes laughter from even the most stoic and sardonic. Not all the jokes work, but there is humor for everyone, humor that sometimes makes you question your sanity for laughing at it.
(e.g. No words can describe the reaction of the audience and the expression on their faces after having been subjected to the first act of "Springtime for Hitler")
There is no subject, not even evil, that can escape satire....and Mel Brooks does a great job at attacking our sensibilities.
This movie has its minor flaws, but it is near the top of the best ten comedies ever produced.