Comedy/Spoof R Running time: 1:32
IMDB rating: 6.9 Aspect: Wide; Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese; Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin; Audio: DD 5.1
Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar's soldiers (the other Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works best if you're in a take-it-or-leave-it mood.
