Film According To Mr Cinema review: 'The Producers'

 Mel Brook’s 1968 directing debut: ‘The Producers’ is a side-splitting entry which firmly establishes Brooks’ career as ‘the king of bad taste’. The film follows Max Bialystock (Zero Mostell) and Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) as they go about releasing the worst play ever written and making more money with a flop than they could ever make with a hit. This film is a comical illustration of how people enjoy entertainment of the lowest standards. This film is entertaining and pretty damn spot on in its portrayal of how money can drive people to sink to ridiculously low levels just to acquire some dosh.

I enjoyed this film for several reasons, the most primary being, simply, that this is just a pretty fucking funny movie. This film is easy to enjoy, and is perfect to sit down and watch for a good chortle. The humour in this movie incorporates a certain amount of lunacy, but still uses wry verbal humour and traditional laugh-out-loud moments. All-in-all, I think that this is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time, ‘The Producers’ genuinely made me grin like an idiot through and through.

Rating:9/10