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Monday, July 19, 2004
The railroad's bound to run through the sleepy town of Rock Ridge. Land there will be worth a fortune - but the townfolk already own the land. How do you drive them out? Send the roughest, toughest, meanest, leanest gang you've got... and appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film - many called it his best - gets under way, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste - or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wack Waco Kid and Madeline Kahn in her wonderful Marlena Dietrich send-up that earned her an Academy Award nomination all give this sage brush saga their lunatic best. And when the Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same.
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A Wed Wose; how Womantic!
James from Limerick, 02 Dec 2008
Mel Brook's rips the living piss out of the western. Excellent cast & script come together in a genuine laugh-riot, breaking down into a collossal fist-fight to finish. What's not to like?
Best bits? Any scene featuring the late, great Harvey Korman RIP, as the hilariously eee-vvilll Hedley Lamarr.
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Brilliant!
Regina from Dublin, 26 Jul 2007
I defy anyone to watch the campfire scene and not burst out laughing..
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