Spriiiiingtime for Hitler

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2009)

The plot to this movie is really quite interesting, and gives Mel Brooks a podium to go completely over the top with one politically incorrect (whatever that phrase means) joke after the other. The "Springtime For Hitler"-sequences are pretty hilarious, just so in your face, even by today's standards. Nazis who are singing and dancing are just really really wrong. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder work well as a duo, but it's really Kenneth Mars who steals the show as the insane German guy stereotype. The whole comedy acting is pretty old-fashioned, by the book even, but this is just the type of screenplay that needs to be done that way. Exaggerated characters and grotesque situations, the system works. I wouldn't go as far as calling it the funniest movie ever made though. Don't get me wrong, it has plenty of good bits(the auditions, for instance), but not all of the material is that great and it does tend to drag at some points, I didn't really care for that. But it's still one of the most inspired comedies ever made.