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

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

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

| Feb 8, 2019

Its genius, then and now, was the manner in which director Mel Brooks and his writers turned a broad Western spoof into what was, for its time, a revolutionary satire of race relations.

| Jun 18, 2016

Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'

| Aug 22, 2008

One of the funniest awful movies ever made.

| Apr 2, 2008

Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon.

| Apr 2, 2008

The screenplay is credited to five writers, and it shows in the confused melange of styles.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2004

It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Brooks' wholehearted embracing of rank vulgarity, together with his innovative quickfire sketch structure, titillated crowds more used to sophisticated Hollywood humour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2004

A limp, shapeless mess of a film trades in a genuine respect for westerns' tropes for purile vulgarity and joy-buzzer showmanship.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2004

Blazing Saddles has no dominant personality, and it looks as if it includes every gag thought up in every story conference. Whether good, bad, or mild, nothing was thrown out.

| May 20, 2003

A great cast is eclipsed by the hilarious performances of Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn, who plays a Marlene Dietrich-like chanteuse.

| Mar 10, 2003