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Holistic Guidance - Blazing Saddles
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $3.25
Your Save: $ 11.73 ( 78% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Collier, Carol DeLuise, Dom DeLuise, Liam Dunn, George Furth
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302816228
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 630281622X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1993-08-02
Running Time: 93
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1974-02-07
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Editorial Reviews:
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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: tried to watch it again after a long time.
Comment: As a little kid, I loved this movie. All the cartoonish candygram for Mongo schtick and the farting cowboys. As an adult I watched it, found it boring and was offended by all the questionable race humor.
I give it two stars because I remember a funny movie i loved as a kid. (he took hmself hostage hardy har har) otherwise I'd give it negative one star.
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Summary: Blazing Saddles
Comment:
This is one of the best classic Films
in Hollywood CA. It is VERY VERY FUNNY!!!
You should own it on BLU-RAY DISC today.
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Summary: Candy Gram for Mongo
Comment: Great! Along with The Producers and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks has made three of the all time funny movies. I remember seeing this when in was first released and the audience in the cinema were in hysterics of laughter throughout and today it still is a hoot.Great cast, crazy script(such as it is)and just a great vibe throughout combine to make a movie classic. Mel Brooks has tried many times to recreate the wackiness and great spoofery of Blazing Saddles and has never succeeded.What makes Blazing Saddles so good is that he went for it 100% and was inspired. Most of his movies since have been merely crude and boring.
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Summary: l get no kick from champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all...
Comment: ...l get a belt out of Blazing Saddles. Now l bet you're wondering why l'm singing and not reviewing. (Y0U BET Y0UR A--!!!) Well, the real people of Rock Ridge will love this movie, as will the fake ones. You'll love this movie more than a box of paddle-balls.
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Summary: Really?
Comment: String together a group of stereotypes and cliché ridden gags and you have your generic parody. Sadly, `Blazing Saddles' doesn't add anything else to the pot to make it noteworthy or memorable. In fact, `Blazing Saddles' is so generic I am still baffled at all the unwavering devotion it receives. Now understand that I am a huge fan of Mel Brooks and I adore Gene Wilder (I gave `Young Frankenstein' 5 stars recently) but this film is not one I can gather behind. It has so many loyal supporters, but I am not one of them.
The plot centers around a black man appointed sheriff of a racist white town in order to serve the interests of a railroad company who want to build a railway going through the town. If a black man is sheriff than everyone will leave, right. With the help of Deputy Jim, Sheriff Bart sets out to foil these plans.
Insert mindless gags that seem to think they are funnier than they really are.
I don't know; maybe I just don't get it. Well, I guess that is the case because clearly there is something to be gotten here, I just can't see it. Everyone has different taste, that is true, but I can't see what would appeal to anyone here. Gene Wilder is the best thing about this film, aside from Madeline Kahn who actually tickled my funny bone a bit, but for the most part nothing was even remotely entertaining...
...except the ending; I'll give it that. The final few minutes of the film are hilarious. See, writing this review has helped me to find something entertaining within the film. I think that the biggest issue I have here is the same issue I have with films like `2001: A Space Odyssey'; and that is that they are so overhyped that when I actually watch them I am expecting so much more than I receive (`2001' is a much better film than this one and deserving of most of the admiration, it's just not the second coming that many try to paint it as, and it is not even Kubrick's best work). In the end the film winds up feeling overrated; and overrated is not a good feeling.
Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn work to elevate the film, and Cleavon Little delivers what he can, but the material is not as strong as I think it could have been. The acting is for the most part fine, but the script is a let down, and without a great script than even great acting can feel bland and uninteresting.
I know that I am in the minority here, but I can't lie to myself and to the rest of the world by just conforming to everyone else's ideals and claiming this to be a `hysterical good time' when I simply don't think that it is. So, for those of you not of this particular generation (that may play into this a little, but the 70's is for the most part my favorite era for film so I don't know if that is an accurate guestimate) and have not seen this film, just be forewarned that this may not live up.
Then again, it just might and you may join the hordes of loyal supporters of this film.
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