When you think of Mel Brooks, a few of the best movies ever made come to mind. You think about Spaceballs, History of the World: Part 1, and Blazing Saddles. Silent Movie probably also comes to your mind as well.
Silent Movie is nothing more than that... a silent movie. It's a Silent Movie about a down-on-his luck director trying to get back in the game by making a silent movie to save Big Picture Studios from bankruptcy. I imagine the silent movie they were making was about a director making a silent movie about a director making a silent movie... you get the picture.
Silent Movie suffers from one major flaw that it cannot possibly avoid, it relies on nothing but sight gags. Yeah a lot of other Mel Brooks movies rely on sight gags, but the dialog is also there to. Obviously in a silent movie you aren't going to have that. On the other hand though, you have one of the biggest displays of irony in a movie ever when the only character to actually say a line in Silent Movie, is world famous mime Marcel Marceau. The point is, what is it you remember most about Mel Brooks? Is it the sight gags, or the dialog? Obviously it's the latter.
Another ax you like to hear people grind about this movie is that for a Mel Brooks movie, it's not raunchy or adult-oriented. Yeah, your five-year-old will not get about 99% of the jokes but for once Mel Brooks keeps it clean. That's not a problem I have with the movie, just something I've noticed others complain about.
One thing you can say about this movie is that the premise is original. Also, you can't help but love how the stars portray themselves in the movie.
Overall it's not the funniest Mel Brooks movie, nor is it even in the top three but it's worth a look. Pretty much, if you like sight gags, you will love this movie. If you don't, well then you are in for 90 minutes of torture. Then again, why would you even be watching a Mel Brooks comedy if you didn't like sight gags?
I'll give it a very solid (out of five):
No comments:
Post a Comment