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		List Price: $28.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 24191 Released: May 23, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: HD DVD

Editorial Review:
The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film - many call it his best - gets started, 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 wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Mel Brooks Feature Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentaries:Back in the Saddle
TV Special:TV Pilot

Description of Blazing Saddles [HD DVD]:
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

Blazing Saddles [HD DVD] Reviews:
Blazzing Saddles
2009-12-09 - If you need to a good laugh this is the movie you need to buy.

Blu Ray Review
2009-11-25 - This review is for the Blu Ray version of Blazing Saddles. I just got it yesterday and watched it already and I am VERY impressed by the picture and sound! I didn't see any scratchiness or white blips or anything on the picture and the sound was also very good. Obviously, it's a very old movie so there's only so much you can expect, but if you're a fan enough to buy this movie on Blu Ray, I don't think you'll be disappointed with the picture and sound. I have not seen the movie on DVD so I can't say if the blu ray is a lot better. But for the price Amazon sells the blu ray for, there's no excuse not to pick it up. I'm not going to talk about the movie very much because it's been out for 30 years and there's plenty of other reviews that give a synopsis. I had never seen it before and thought it was mildly funny. It does use the "N" word a lot so if this offends you don't bother watching. It has a few laugh out loud moments, and I recognized a lot of comedy routines and phrases in this one that I've also heard in newer movies, so I'm guessing this is where they got their material from. That being said, it wasn't nearly as funny as I thought it would be based on what my friends told me. I think they're remembering it being funnier than it really is :) Hope this helps, at least for those considering buying it on Blu Ray.

It's Twue, it's Twue
2009-11-15 - Hadn't seen this one in a while, needed a laugh, still funny after all these years. Blu-ray had a pilot episode for a TV Series spin off which has a young (and with hair) Louis Gossett, Jr.

I'd /like/ to give BS only four stars...
2009-11-14 - ...simply for Mel Brooks' heavy-handed and obvious vulgarity, but I'm obliged to give it five, for Madeline Kahn's performance as Lili von Shtupp. Specifically, her rendering of "I'm Tired", a perfect send-up of Marlene Detrich. (One would like to think that Ms. Dietrich fell into convulsive laughter after seeing it.) Brooks says he wrote the song before Kahn was cast, but she sings it as if it were written for her unique talent.

Is it a true classic? As with "Young Frankenstein", I don't know. But it is funny, mostly because of its blunt treatment of racism. In this regard, it's a much more honest film than "Crash".

The cinematography by Joseph Biroc does little to enhance his excellent reputation. The daylight scenes are flat, almost washed-out. The night scenes, though, are richly colored and jsut plain beautiful. "Blazing Saddles" is one of only two of Brooks films shot in Panavision, and it generally doesn't work. Too many scenes look overly "distant", when a tighter view of the characters would have been more effective.

Amazon's attractive price makes the BD a must-have, if only to see Madeline Kahn in a classic performance.

Still the ultimate Western movie satire...hands down!
2009-11-08 - Way Out West. Go West. My Little Chickadee. The Paleface. Cat Ballou. Western comedies have been done before...but NEVER like this! Some 30-odd years later, Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" still retains its impact, and its unapologetic political incorrectness. Brooks had told all his writers to "go for broke; anything outrageous gets thrown in!" And the movie sure looks it. BS does have an "everything but the kitchen sink" quality to it. Like "Young Frankenstein", which is gentler but just as kooky, BS aims scattershot at all kinds of satire, old & new, and scores time & again. Tucked in between the belly laughs are messages about corruption, greed & racism...but the comedy still rules, especially when you have a campfire bean-eating scene where cowboys are passing gas in turn. And like YF, BS has so many outrageously funny moments that you need a score card. Brooks gives himself dual roles as a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief, and as the misguided cross-eyed Governor LePetemaine. There are dozens of sharp, funny performances in the movie: From the gawdy heroics of Cleavon Little & Gene Wilder to the snivelling villainy of Harvey Korman to Madeline Kahn's "Destry Rides Again" spoof of Marlene Dietrich...well, even the supporting players are terrific.
Fast paced & hilarious, you definitely can't go wrong with this comedy which shows Brooks at the top of his game!