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Product Details
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. --Tom Keogh
Product Reviews
 (3 stars) - History of the World Part 1
Irreverant movie that I first saw when it came to the theater. As it says on the cover something to offend everyone. It is just plan silly and funny. Mel Brooks is very funny.
 (4 stars) - A hit-and-miss history lesson from Mel
The moment I saw the opening scene with our shaggy forefathers reaching for the sky--and then dropping their hands to masturbate--I knew this was going to be a crude & bawdy Mel Brooks comedy. The bad news: Written solely by Brooks and, of course, directed by him, any failings the movie has rests squarely on his shoulders. Being an episodic collection of moments in history, it has so many highs & lows that you're laughing out loud one minute and groaning the next. The pace tends to ramble on, making the film feel longer than it really is. The good news: The cast reads like an alumni of "Mel Brooks movie graduates"...Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman...plus, guest appearances by everyone from Hugh Hefner & Henny Youngman to Bea Arthur & the great dancer-actor Gregory Hines (the latter is quite funny in this one). My faves: Mel's former T.V. "boss", the great Sid Caesar, does some ingenious pantomime in the "Stone Age" segment; the satirization of "The Last Supper" painting; the overblown Spanish Inquisition production number (you have to admire a mind that can come up with such ribald lunacy); and the French Revolution (Mel is raunchy fun here as King "It's Good to be the King" Louis).
But the bit that's probably the funniest is the coming attractions for "Part 2", with "Hitler on Ice", a Viking funeral & "Jews in Space" (Mel's spoofing of "Star Wars", years before "Spaceballs" came along).
This is a Brooks comedy that's pretty much a mixed offering: Some parts you'll like, and others, you'll dislike. It depends on your tastes.
 (5 stars) - Mr. Brooks Made A Funny
Mel Brooks has done it again. Who knew Philosophy and History could be so funny? Mel did. Brooks, that is. He is so funny to watch, along with his outrageous co-stars Madeline Khan, Bea Aurthur and soooo many more. If you want to split your side laughing watch this movie.
 (1 stars) - A long wait for nothing.
I ordered this DVD to be given as a gift. After initially being told that it was "pending", I waited two weeks before inquiring about a shipping date. The response was that they could not find a copy of this DVD and apologized for the inconvenience. I wondered if I had not e-mailed Movie Mars, if they would have bothered to tell me that it didn't have the DVD. I won't use the company again.
(4 stars) - genuine Mel Brooks
Typical Mel Brooks, from start to finish, song & dance, sexual innuendo, references to mild drug use, a lot of slap stick comedy ala 3 stooges. some very mild violence, chariot chase etc. no blood or anything like that. there never is in mel Brooks. You must pay attention to some of the humor or it will be missed. Just a silly, good natuired take on history, while not always accurate of course, still a lot of fun!!
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