Blazing Saddles

Buy This Item Blazing Saddles by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 9-22-2008     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. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews What is odd about this movie is that it is still Politically Incorrect. And even after they make a movie about gay cowboys, this is still funny. And there is still no better way to show how small racial politics can make us than to shrink racism with laughter. And politicians still can't keep their pants on. This movie doesn't seem that old any more. And that scene with the cowboys sitting around the fire, eating beans -- still cracks me up. There's wit here, not just half-witted antics and toilet humor borrowed from other movies.

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