The film is far more consistently entertaining in the second half than in the first half, but a lot of the laughs come more from the ideas of what we’re seeing rather than their deliveries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2024

While the gags flow freely throughout, it's the jaw-dropping numbers from Springtime for Hitler that cement the film's place in cinema history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2024

Writer/director Mel Brooks' debut film and most popular farce was a zany, often brilliant spoof comedy about Broadway productions (and their producers) and the Nazis that many considered shoddy and in very bad taste. The subversive and irreverent film

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 12, 2022

You can’t say enough about the comic chemistry between Mostel and Wilder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The inspired lunacy extends to all corners of this madcap comedy which Brooks once insisted "rises below vulgarity."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2021

...a very New York film, from the little tour of central Manhattan Max uses to seduce Leo to the dueling conversations Max and his landlord ...have with the Almighty.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 13, 2021

An absolutely perfect combination of cartoonish nuttiness and naturally-flowing comical interactions.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 7, 2020

A film that, like its fellow late 60s classic Bonnie and Clyde, still feels boundary-pushing and bold five decades after it was made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2020

Mel Brooks' feature directorial debut starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, The Producers, is one of the best comedies of all-time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 18, 2019

The Producers is a rip-roaring comedy which takes no prisoners and doesn't distinguish reich from wrong.

| Oct 30, 2018

The leading men are a hoot and the trademark Brooks bad-taste humour hasn't dated at all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 14, 2018

Each time I've watched it - and I've watched it many times - Mel Brooks' The Producers has felt horribly pertinent to the present moment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2018

Perhaps his script here should have been calmed down by sulky, dough-faced little cartoon people.

| Jul 11, 2018

This is a classic comedy in its own way. . .[Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2017

Brooks in his feature debut already knows that vulgarity is both meticulous art and timeless industry

| Mar 5, 2016

...suffers from a pervasive lack of laughs that's compounded by writer/director Mel Brooks' relentlessly (and exhaustingly) over-the-top sensibilities.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 30, 2013

But despite the too-wacky-for-their-own-good jokes and slow pacing, there's no denying the genius of Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 2, 2013

Slapstick comedy-musical -- not meant for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Like The Producers itself, Springtime for Hitler, with its Busby Berkeley-meets-Leni Riefenstahl choreography and creatively crude lyrics, ends up proving that bad taste can be irresistible.

| Aug 21, 2009

Quite possibly Brooks's finest hour.

| Aug 12, 2008