@@jamespfitz Geez, do you even have a sense of humor at all? Can't you tell when someone's giving a humorous compliment? You should watch the actual clip - Mel laughs along with everyone else at the comment and waves back at Nathan, who follows it up with "I love you Mel." You ought to know Nathan and Mel happen to be very close friends. Lighten up!
I've watched this so many times (first on TV, then VHS then DVD) that I know every line. My favourite comedy film, I love it. And curiously, the VHS I have ends with the drunk detonating the bomb.
I was a teenager babysitting into the wee hours. I found this on the Late Night Movie (remember, this was before cable) and thought I'd been drugged. My favorite film.
Went to see an amateur production of this with my husband! He’d seen the film i’d onlyheard of it. It was in a tiny little theatre so a lot of it was cut, but cut well. It was going down very well, and by the time Springtime came on the guy and i started laughing - complete strangers, just the two of us and for ten minutes we were clutching each other, the only two people in an otherwise quiet theatre. And it was like that through every scene, just the two of us again. For an amateur show the guy who played Bialy was top class West End material. It was one of the funniest evenings of my life. Brilliant!
Best line in this: "We lifted the dancing swastika from Busby Berkely" You really have to have seen one of Busby's movies to fully appreciated that. Zero, Gene and Dick Shawn! And that one line that Mel overdubs during the musical is terrific. *I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast... where did I go right?*
JudasAngel666 can you believe that there are people who refuse to watch black and white films. So they will miss the joy of Young Frankenstein. Even Run DMC fans!! They don't realise that walk this way joke inspired Steve Tyler's lyrics in the original Aerosmith tune.
I work at a marina and we say the word “chain” a lot. Then, because I’m annoying, I have to say “Hercules chained, Hercules unchained, Hercules the chain is slipping....he made 6 movies about Hercules and a chain!”😂😂😂
Two movies that had me busting a gut right out of the gate. The Pink Panther Stikes again and The Producers. Difference being that The Producers maintained the hilarity throughout.
Years, years, years after seeing this for the first time, I have NEVER forgotten it. The scene in Lincoln Center where Leo yells, "I want everything.." and the fountain goes on?? Heart lifting, and hysterically funny. Bravo, Mel. The remake?? Ehhhh..
Anybody else find it funny that gene wilder played both Leo bloom and Frederick Frankenstein in young Frankenstein, and roger bart eventually played Leo bloom and was Frederick in young Frankenstein the musical??
When you think about it, the idea of making the worst play ever of Hitler would be a hit. People respond positively when evil is mocked. When Spike Jones mocked Hitler with "Der Fuehrer's Face," it was a big hit.
I think he really should be up there on the same level as Shakespeare and Co... Mel Brooks is pure comedic genius...I do not know of anybody more talented than him.
In Germany, the movie is called "Frühling für Hitler", Springtime for Hitler. Because apparently, Germans find it much easier to take the piss out of Hitler than Americans. I bet that would cheer Mel Brooks up if he knew...
***** Shot for shot? One of the biggest "complaints" of the 2005 version is that many things were done in one sho, giving a "watching a play" kind of feel (even though that's what it was). It is the same play, of course most of the dialogue is going to be the same. The main difference is that this time it has been converted into a musical so there is a slew of new, original, well composed songs that weren't in the original. I bet if half of you purist whiners had seen the 2005 version first, your tone wouldn't be so harsh.
An example of the explicit satire in the film as the old women paid a lot of money to the producer Max to satisfy her sexual desire satire people who think young man should not be satisfy older women for money. Such explicit example in the film might be rejected by moralists for the reason of the high amount of nudity and sexuality
No black Hitler in the ensemble cast of Hitlers? I wonder why? Surely a candidate for the truly absurd... I love Mel Brooks classics. The writing, acting and comedic timing is beyond superb.
To show how things have changed, Nathan Lane would have been a perfect Roger Debris. Just cant see him as the womanizing Max. Eh. A musical. A different kind of play/movie and a different time.
