Blazing Saddles: Not only the Best of Mel Brooks' movies, but also one of the greatest comedies of all time and it is INFINITELY quotable. There are so many good laughs, if you don't anything funny in this movie, you're probably dead. Or lobotomized. Or in a medically-induced coma. The cast is top-notch - Cleavon Little as Sheriff Bart, Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid, Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr (quite simply the greatest screen villain other than Darth Vader), Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens...there isn't a weak link in the bunch. Perfectly cast, perfectly paced, with enough toilet humor to balance out the sex jokes and both of those to counteract the playful stab at racism, "Blazing Saddles" is a better Western than most Westerns. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't hear a quote from this movie. It's the perfect spoof movie and makes all others pale by comparison. Woodchuck sez, "Check it out."
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