Blazing Saddles (With Golf Book) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Carol Arthur, Richard Collier, Liam Dunn, George Furth, Burton Gilliam
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  323 reviews
Sales Rank: 135271
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Yiddish (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: D80726D
UPC: 012569807266
EAN: 0012569807266
ASIN: B000EWBKPS
Theatrical Release Date: February 7, 1974
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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Condition: New, factory sealed. 100% guaranteed.
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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
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The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
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 Candy Gram for Mongo August 29, 2008
Great! Along with The Producers and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks has made three of the all time funny movies. I remember seeing this when in was first released and the audience in the cinema were in hysterics of laughter throughout and today it still is a hoot.Great cast, crazy script(such as it is)and just a great vibe throughout combine to make a movie classic. Mel Brooks has tried many times to recreate the wackiness and great spoofery of Blazing Saddles and has never succeeded.What makes Blazing Saddles so good is that he went for it 100% and was inspired. Most of his movies since have been merely crude and boring.
 l get no kick from champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all... August 25, 2008
...l get a belt out of Blazing Saddles. Now l bet you're wondering why l'm singing and not reviewing. (Y0U BET Y0UR A--!!!) Well, the real people of Rock Ridge will love this movie, as will the fake ones. You'll love this movie more than a box of paddle-balls.
 Really? August 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
String together a group of stereotypes and cliche ridden gags and you have your generic parody. Sadly, `Blazing Saddles' doesn't add anything else to the pot to make it noteworthy or memorable. In fact, `Blazing Saddles' is so generic I am still baffled at all the unwavering devotion it receives. Now understand that I am a huge fan of Mel Brooks and I adore Gene Wilder (I gave `Young Frankenstein' 5 stars recently) but this film is not one I can gather behind. It has so many loyal supporters, but I am not one of them.
The plot centers around a black man appointed sheriff of a racist white town in order to serve the interests of a railroad company who want to build a railway going through the town. If a black man is sheriff than everyone will leave, right. With the help of Deputy Jim, Sheriff Bart sets out to foil these plans.
Insert mindless gags that seem to think they are funnier than they really are.
I don't know; maybe I just don't get it. Well, I guess that is the case because clearly there is something to be gotten here, I just can't see it. Everyone has different taste, that is true, but I can't see what would appeal to anyone here. Gene Wilder is the best thing about this film, aside from Madeline Kahn who actually tickled my funny bone a bit, but for the most part nothing was even remotely entertaining...
...except the ending; I'll give it that. The final few minutes of the film are hilarious. See, writing this review has helped me to find something entertaining within the film. I think that the biggest issue I have here is the same issue I have with films like `2001: A Space Odyssey'; and that is that they are so overhyped that when I actually watch them I am expecting so much more than I receive (`2001' is a much better film than this one and deserving of most of the admiration, it's just not the second coming that many try to paint it as, and it is not even Kubrick's best work). In the end the film winds up feeling overrated; and overrated is not a good feeling.
Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn work to elevate the film, and Cleavon Little delivers what he can, but the material is not as strong as I think it could have been. The acting is for the most part fine, but the script is a let down, and without a great script than even great acting can feel bland and uninteresting.
I know that I am in the minority here, but I can't lie to myself and to the rest of the world by just conforming to everyone else's ideals and claiming this to be a `hysterical good time' when I simply don't think that it is. So, for those of you not of this particular generation (that may play into this a little, but the 70's is for the most part my favorite era for film so I don't know if that is an accurate guestimate) and have not seen this film, just be forewarned that this may not live up.
Then again, it just might and you may join the hordes of loyal supporters of this film.
Funny August 3, 2008
One of the funniest movies ever. The racial slur is nothing that you haven't heard in every rap song ever written.
Work,work,work,Great Blu-Ray title from Warner Bros,gets' a even break!!! July 27, 2008
If you're a blazing Saddles/Mel Brooks fan and have a Blu-Ray player than this is great purchase,great picture,sound,and extras(the same ones that appear on the 30th anniversary DVD I presume)!!! A solid Blu Ray release from Warner Bros!!! Absolote classic comedy!!! This saga sure did get an even break on Blu-Ray Disc!!! I was lucky and got this on sale for ten bones brand new!!! a seventies comedy classic!!! Recommended!!! A+ Two Thumbs up!!!
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