They don't make them like they used to...

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2003)

I'm practically speechless... I've just seen this movie for the 12th time...Timeless, hilarious, cynical, intelligent, subtle...a masterpiece! What more can I add? The first of the superb trilogy delivered by in the 70's by the unique Mel Brooks (the other two masterpieces being Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein), this is a movie words simply can't describe! Ditto for the brilliant script (almost every line is quotable!), the incredible music, the splendid choreography and the "hysterical" performances by the fabulous Gene Wilder, the incomparable Kenneth Mars, the late great Zero Mostel and the late GREAT Dick Shawn... I hope you're laughing your hearts out in Heaven now, boys - I know I do here on Earth. And I thank you for that.