Why didn't they understand camp? [SPOILER]

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2001)

...at one point Mostel asks "where did we go right?" How could he have missed the whole camp phenomenon of the `60- `70's? Here he is "King of Broadway", yet no understanding of the tastes of the time. Bialystock and Bloom are 1955 men stuck in a 1968 world. Unless Chris Hewett couldn't pull off drama, and told Shawn to ham it up, or Shawn ad-libbed the whole thing, which would have ticked off Hewett. Mostel wasn't minding the store, in other words. Ken Mars' Nazi was a hoot (no pun), a broader character then his Inspector Klemp in "Young Frankenstein." Like all Brooks' movies, either you like it, or you don't. Mel is more subtile than the ZAZ team, or the Farreley brothers (who took notes from ZAZ), John Hughes, Ivan Reitman, or the other comic directors of today. Like Ken Russell, Brooks is totally in thral with the Nazis, and took cracks at them whenever he could. Like the "Monty Python" team after "Monty Python" there are hits and misses, and more misses as Brooks career went along, esp. in the Reagan years.