Best Comedy Ever!!!

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2001)

Although this film predates me my 3 years, I just can't get enough of 'The Producers' by Mel Brooks. Zero Mostel (Max Bialystock) and Gene Wilder (Leo Bloom) are delightful in their roles as a washed-up theatrical producer and a mousy accountant, and the chemistry between Mostel and Wilder is just incredible. Dick Shawn is hilarious as the Jim-Morrison-wannabe Lorenzo Saint Dubois (or as his friends call him, L.S.D.). Several smaller roles provide an assortment of oddballs that makes the movie enjoyable -- the good-natured inebriate, the concierge, the assortment of Hitlers, Ulla, Carmen Giya, Roger DeBris, and the "Hold Me Touch Me" lady.
However, the movie's big scene-stealer is Kenneth Mars as Franz Liebkind, the author of Bialystock and Bloom's planned theatrical flop, "Springtime for Hitler." His performance is Oscar-quality, and he delivers some of the funniest lines of the film: "Hitler -- there was a painter. He could paint an apartment in one afternoon, two coats!" and "You are the audience. I am the author. I outrank you."
I first saw this movie on VHS, and I can easily say that this movie contains some of the funniest scenes ever on film. I had to buy my own copy, and I can watch it over and over again without getting tired of it. The plot is well-developed and funny, and ends on a hilarious note.

I'm giving it 10 out of 10. It doesn't get better than this.