Dare I say it, comedy classic?

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2010)

Admittedly The Producers is very tasteless but in a triumphant way. In short, The Producers is a comedy classic to me and one of my personal favourite Mel Brooks comedies. The story is a great one about two men who team up to fleece theatrical investors with the worst play of all time- a musical biopic of Adolf Hitler, while the script is constantly hilarious. The gags flow with ease, with the numbers from Springtime for Hitler faring best of all, they are just jaw-dropping. The two leads are wonderful, Zero Mostel as the down-on-his-luck impresario and Gene Wilder as the shy accountant, as is Dick Shawn as the hippy star who takes the lead in the production. Overall, brilliant, tasteless but very funny. 10/10 Bethany Cox