The second time around, and still cracks me up, one of the funniest Westerns out there, Mel brooks did a great job on this film, Guns blazing all the way through.. RIP to such a great actor Gene Wideler, my name is Jim, and most people call me Jim. haha

This makes at least my top 5 comedies ever made. Airplane! might take number one, but after that I have a hard time figuring out the proper ranking. Doesn't matter though, the important thing to remember is how great this is. I had seen almost all of the Mel Brooks movies as a child, but my parents were good parents, and they didn't let me see this until I grew up.

But that was an advantage. Seeing this movie for the first time as an adult helps make sure you don't miss jokes that would've gone over my head (except fart jokes, those are funny no matter what your age). I think my favorite scene might be with the governor. Mel Brooks plays that character so well. His distraction, physical problems, anger, lust, idiocy; it's all good. Gene Wilder also just knows comedic timing better than almost any other actor out there, so every scene with him is great.

Check this out if you haven't seen it. Just, again, probably not with any kids.

one of my all time favourites, any more beans mister taggart

Somehow Mel Brooks made a truly great satiric comedy that has an entire scene with a group of people farting from eating beans. I do not understand how a movie with a scene as ridiculous as this ended up as good as it is. The western setting works great with this style of comedy and sometimes gives rather smart jokes making points about other serious westerns. I highly recommend this film if you can accept that it sometimes is very silly and ridiculous, and other times it's an intelligent and self-aware movie.

The beginning of the film has a humorous style that he would share next year with 'The Young Frankenstein': silly (in a good way), rogue, coming to black humor. But when we get to the end of the movie ... the plot twist turns in such a way that it looks like a movie featuring Leslie Nielsen, but even better! I mean, I think it's the craziest ending to all of Hollywood comedy.

It's amazing, looking back, just how much variety this succinct satire of the western genre is able to put on display. Crammed full of every type of joke, pun and ruse imaginable, it's the perfect vehicle for an in-his-prime Mel Brooks to show off his devastatingly effective abilities in each style. More impressively, it's able to make those wild leaps from pointed, hilarious dialog to silly sight gags to dense, dark satire without disrupting the flow of the story and becoming an undisciplined series of loosely-related skits (though it does come awfully close once or twice).

That it can also be so funny amidst a subject matter so heavy, (Brooks tackles racism and government corruption amidst the obvious parodies of an overpopulated genre) is further testament to his talents. I'm not a huge fan of the bizarre non-sequitur ending sequence, but given the non-stop laughs that precede, it's a small price to pay.

Probably the funniest movie ever made.

It could use some trimming, like the jail scene when they first meet or the whole subplot with the singer.

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

I saw this movie originally back in 1974 as a pre-teen and it was hilarious. Now in 2020, it's less funny, but still enjoyable. It's so silly it's funny. This movie pokes fun at anyone and everyone, so if you're easily offended and a pussy don't bother watching it.

They could never make this movie today - or even in the last 10 years because everyone is so sensitive now and don't know how to laugh at themselves.

I usually like breaking the fourth wall in films, but in this one at the end it really bothered me a lot.

" Hold it! Next man makes a move, the ni**er gets it!" LMFAO

Very funny and ingeniously surreal and inventive. It’s just a shame that its robust anti-racism sits alongside plenty of unreflective sexism and some unfunny and unnecessary homophobia...