Funniest Mel Brooks flick around!

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2003)

First a comment on the "Producers" DVD, which has the worst subtitling I have come across - and I am not talking about bad translations, so that the translator can't spell Führer is OK with me, but why can't he/she/it spell ordinary English? We'll never know, but this is the first time I have come across abysmal spelling!
Now for the film, which was Mel Brooks first, and best, even if it at times shows that the budget was small. The acting is brilliant by everyone; from minor roles like the character Goebbles, played by David Patch, the character Hitler, played by Dick Shawn, to major; as those of Zero Mostel (THE producer), Gene Wilder (the accountant) and Kenneth Mars (Nazi immigrant who has written a play about Hitler, called Springtime for Hitler), which the director de Bris (played by Christoffer Hewitt) turns into a musical!!!
But we have a smattering of minor roles, such as the dumb Swedish blonde Ulla, excellently played by Lee Meredith (if not Swedish one bit!), to old dear ladies wanting a bit of sexual excitement with Zero, et cetera, et cetera.
Zero Mostel has the most expressive face I ever seen - a true gem! Gene Wilder never gets better, but that is very good indeed, while Kenneth Mars' acting is second to none, in this one of the funniest film ever!
Notwithstanding some goofs (like before Mostel and Wilder are allowed to visit de Bris' flat they are forced to take off their shoes, and yet when they sit in his den they have their shoes on!), horrible subtitling and one or two other things that could have been better the Producers is worth nine out of ten!