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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Description of Blazing Saddles [Region 2]:
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 [Region 2] Reviews:
Classic! 
2009-12-29 - Great movie. Continues to make me laugh even after repeated viewings over all these years.
Blazing Sladdles 
2009-12-28 - Great movie I owned it on DVD and decided to buy it on bluray after I saw it go down in price on Black Friday. They did a good job of restoring the color
when it was ported over to bluray. Funny movie allround.
Great movie at an Amazing price. 
2009-12-28 - I bought this movie for $0.97 with free shipping, you really can't get a better deal than that.
Classic any way you call it 
2009-12-27 - What a classic! Third copy I've bought over the years, can't NOT have it in the collection~
A blast from the past 
2009-12-27 - The best $3 movie I've ever purchased. I hadn't seen this in years and forgot how funny it is. It was fun to share with my teenage kids. Thanks, Amazon.