History Of The World, Part I

Production year: 1981

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.

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Features

Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Trailers/TV spots

Special features

Musical Mel: Inventing "The Inquisition"
Making History: Mel Brooks on "Creating The World"
"The Real History Of The World" Trivia Track
Isolated Score Track
History Of The World, Part I