History of the World Part I
by Mel Brooks
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Actor: Mel BrooksDirector: Mel Brooks
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Mel Brooks
Writer: Mel Brooks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of History of the World Part I
DVD Review: Great Mel Brooks Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Mel Brooks Classic. Relive those forgotten scenes, find out where those quotable quotes originated. Ah Ha, that's where that saying came from, Hilarious!DVD Review: Fantastically Funny Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie! When this movie came out I was just a kid. It was funny then, and it's just as funny now. You can't go wrong with this one!DVD Review: Might be a good way to teach history to the disinterested?
Summary: 4 Stars
Slap-stick and irreverent satire start here at the stone age
and go on through to the French revolution, with stops at Moses and the Roman Empire.
The cart in the French market place selling rats as the meat of the day
really points out what starvation can mean.
I just saw a documentary on the French revolution that says the money sent
to the American revolution was responsible for the economic bad times in France that ended in the French revolution.
The depiction of the French king as a lecher is probably wrong as it took him seven years to conceive his first child because of a medical problem,
but I loved the stone age musical stick.
Seeing the humor in the black plague might not be as easy as the Spanish Inquisition?
DVD Review: Classic Mel Brooks
Summary: 5 Stars
My VHS tape wore out, couldn't wait to get this! Great cast, even Henny Youngman in a great quick scene. Madeline Kahn is perfect as Empress Nympho, and "it's good to be the King"! Second only to Blazing Saddles for me!DVD Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Sporadically amusing, albeit juvenile, History of the World is an uneven series of sketches that feels disjointed and will not be remembered as one of Mel Brooks' best efforts.
Description of History of the World Part I
Mel Brooks' uproarious version of history proves nothing is sacred as he takes us on a laugh-filled look at what really happened throughout time. His delirious romp features everything from a wild send-up of "2001" to the real stories behind the Roman Empire (Brooks portrays a stand-up philosopher at Caesar's Palace), the French Revolution (Brooks reigns as King Louis XVI) and the Spanish Inquisition (a splashy song-and-dance number with monks and swimming nuns.) It's Mel and company at their hilarious best.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
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