96
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
- 100New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinManiacally funny. It remains neck and neck with "Young Frankenstein" as Brooks' best film.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is one of the funniest movies ever made. To see it now is to understand that. To see it for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even "There's Something About Mary" rivals it.
- 90Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonHowever familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineMel Brooks's first and funniest, a spoof of Broadway theater that has earned a deservedly devoted cult following.
- 80CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleThe Producers is so effusively inappropriate and so damned funny it is one of the highest examples of low comedy.