Brooks' career has spanned 70 years, creating some of the most beloved comedies of all time.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 25, 2024

Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles continues to remain an iconic staple of the Western comedy genre, even if some of its jokes don't quite mesh well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2024

A fantastic, fun comedy that was ahead of its time. Mel Brook's sharp parody of the cowboy genre, also tackles racism with some lightning shots. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2024

Blazing Saddles made Mel Brooks for a time the medium’s leading comedic filmmaker...

| Feb 15, 2024

Gene Wilder is perfect as the alcoholic gunslinger the Waco Kid, and Madeline Kahn steals the show as a Dietrich-like chanteuse.

| Feb 8, 2024

Most of the gags in Blazing Saddles never were very funny, and probably Brooks knows that and thinks that what's funny about those rotten old jokes is how unfunny they are.

| Sep 21, 2023

Not only is it an affectionately riotous parody of the cowboy genre, it also keenly engages very real and deep-seated issues of racism in American life.

| May 21, 2023

No one's left to cast the first stone, so you may as well laugh and enjoy it.

| May 9, 2023

Most of the shorter sequences work nicely. The superb comedienne Madeline Kahn has a role as Lili Von Shtuppe that la a wonderful excuse for her to do a Marlene Dietrich imitation.

| Jan 30, 2023

Brooks' western is anything but typical. It is a brazen, punch-drunk, free-swinging spoof of every sagebrush saga that ever came down the Hollywood trail.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 30, 2023

For the adult and not easily offended audience for whom Brooks had done this mad frontier frolic, Blazing Saddles offers an extraordinary quantity of unrestrained laughter.

| Jan 30, 2023

May be instructive in terms of the tropes it chooses to challenge (a group of Black railworkers crooning Cole Porter instead of “Camptown Races”) and the ones it chooses to leave unharmed.

| Original Score: C | Nov 29, 2022

Blazing Saddles, the 1974 film starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, is one of the best comedies ever made in the history of cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 9, 2022

It's really not as politically incorrect as people think. It's sending up traditional racism.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 25, 2021

Despite the narrative shortcomings, many of the gags are outstanding.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2020

A model of how not to make a comedy. It is like playing tennis not only without a net but also without a court, and with twenty balls simultaneously.

| Jul 25, 2020

One of the best Western parodies ever made. The powerhouse duo of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder does not disappoint.

| Apr 4, 2020

A bad parody of Westerns. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 31, 2020

It is a gigantic send-up of the western, as if that sad and nearly deserted genre needed any more grief... Brooks picks over the bones drying in the sun and constructs a hilarious skeleton for our amusement.

| Dec 16, 2019

Mel Brooks has come up with his most outrageous comedy to date in the brilliantly funny Blazing Saddles.

| Feb 8, 2019