Reviews

Personally I consider it Brooks' masterpiece, the perfect Mel Brooks Film, the peak of his comic generous and possibly the funniest movie ever made.

Parrodying almost every Hitchcock film, as well as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Wizard of Oz, The Spy Who Loved Me and Blowup, making there so many jokes and cross references that you have to watch it 3 times to get and notice all of them. on top of that is the usual Brooks insanity and Jew jokes that just make you go this movie is so Mel.

Before seeing this film, it is not necessary and i had not seen them, but I recommend watching these Hitchcock films: Spellbound, Vertigo, Phsyco, The Birds, North by Northwest, The Ring, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Dial M for Murder and Family Plot. These films should help you get many jokes not all or even most but many.

All together this film is classic Mel and is necessary viewing for anyone with a sense of humor.

Many people know that Mel Started off in stand up and moved into writing, and in an Audience with Mel Brooks we see what that stand up would have been like, fun, interactive, exciting and utterly hilarious. As seen in many great stand up performances the entire show seems improvised but Mel and the surprise celebrity guests tell us most of it is set up.

Mel challenges Jonathan Pryce to a sort of hamlet-off with actual money riding on it and does a whole lot of promotion for To Be or not to be while entertaining a bunch of British people.

I obtained my copy through ebay, it's an original release video from Melbourne Victoria and i have checked everywhere but have been unable to find another copy. I am not sure whether it is on Youtube or not but it is definitely worth looking into seeing it as it is well worth paying up to 30 bucks for it.