OT: Coming to DVD for Comedy fans

[ALK]

http://www.foxstore.com/detail.html?item=2185
The Mel Brooks Box Set Collection

It features some well known classics:
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
History of the World Part I

Some underrated classics:
Silent Movie
To Be or Not to Be
High Anxiety

One I've never seen:
The Twelve Chairs

And unfortunately a bad one:( :
Robin Hood: Men In Tights

This sounds like a great collection(besides the fact that Men in Tights in on it:eek: ). Ive been waiting so long to see Silent Movie, To Be or Not to Be, and High Anxiety on DVD and I'm sure I'll enjoy The Twelve Chairs. I already own Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles but this collection is still worth getting. Mel Brooks is a one of the greatest comedy writers and directors that ever lived. If you've never heard of Mel Brooks, rent The Producers(1968). I guarantee that you'll want to see another Brooks movie after you have seen The Producers.

[J. B. Warner]

I should pick this up. I've seen "Blazing Saddles" ("Where the white women at?") and "Young Frankenstein" ("A sedagive?") plenty of times, but the other ones have been a little harder to come by for me. The guy is funny, I'll grant him that.

[AndrewGilmore]

It's been a long time since I've seen "Robin Hood: Men In Tights", but when I was about 10 or 11 I remember thinking it was pretty funny despite what you say.

[Duck Dodgers]

" Young Frankenstein" is a marvellous movie. The " Puttin' on the Ritz" sequence is an all-time classic!

[frizfrelengfan]

Young Frankenstein is one of my favorite movies of all time! ("I am Frau Blücher!" "Neiiiiigh!")

Blazing Saddles is another one of my favorites! ("It's twue, it's twue!")

I wonder why The Producers (the original one with Zero Mostel) is not in the collection. Maybe they couldn't get video rights. The company that released it, Embassy Pictures, is no more but I believe Sony owns the rights to it now. This is also a very funny picture (and my memory is fuzzy, but may have been the first picture with an MPAA rating).

[ALK]

I wonder why The Producers (the original one with Zero Mostel) is not in the collection. Maybe they couldn't get video rights. The company that released it, Embassy Pictures, is no more but I believe Sony owns the rights to it now. This is also a very funny picture
The Producers is owned by MGM while this collection is being released by 20th Century Fox. A deluxe edition of The Producers was released in December to go along with the release of the musical starring Nathan Lane. That's the same reason this collection is being released too. To go along with the musical version of The Producers.
(and my memory is fuzzy, but may have been the first picture with an MPAA rating). I looked on the DVD box. The Producers is unrated.

[speedy fast]

I like many of Mel Brookes' movies. I wish that Life Stinks were included in that set. That's one Mel Brookes movie that I'd really like to see, but i can never find it in any video stores.

While the original Producers is good, I think that movie is kind of straight forward for a Mel brookes movie.

[corey3rd]

Blazing Saddles is Warners. But like The Producers, it's been out on DVD for so long that it sells pretty cheap. So it probably wasn't too much of an issue to get it included in the set. it's not like when Sony backed out on letting Warners include the Major Dundee recut in the Sam Peckinpah collection warners put out.

Life Stinks is out on DVD from MGM - you can get it as part of the 2 for 1 MGM sale at deepdiscountdvd - and to get this on an animation topic, they have the three solo Pink Panther DVDs as part of that deal. So you can get all three for less than $20.