MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

kelleant This a great watch and worth it too. All this people who are giving this movie bad reviews are idiots who don't understand comedy. Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, and Dom Bell are on their A game in this movie and so I recommend it anyone who loves comedy or Brooks Any ways it a movie worth watching mind there is a lot of reading because of course it a Silent Movie.

Hunter Lanier If this entire film was constructed solely for the sake of a single joke--a mime speaking the only word in a silent film--I would be okay with that. Luckily, there's a little more to it."Silent Movie," written, directed, and starring Mel Brooks as Mel Funn, a down-on-his-luck Hollywood director--dressed as a sea captain, for some reason--looking for his comeback, which he believes will come in the form of a silent movie. He's joined by two cohorts, Marty Feldman--dressed as an aviator; something tells me Feldman wouldn't be able to acquire a pilot's license--and Dom DeLuise--dressed relatively normal, though bordering on golf enthusiast. The three must recruit major Hollywood stars in order for the studio to greenlight their film. The thorn in my side when it comes to this movie--and the same goes for 2011's "The Artist"--is that if this had come out prior to '29, nobody would care, and it would be seen as an imitation of greater artists. Many of the gags in the film simply lack the choreography and elegance of Chaplin, Keaton or Lloyd. Take a scene in which the three buffoons disguise themselves as knights in order to draft Liza Minnelli; it merely involves the three falling over, getting back up and falling over again, and goes on way too long. This isn't to say, however, that the film doesn't its moments; it has several, actually.Brooks is famous for having the world's most sophisticated fart joke--the coffee and bean diet of cowboys; it's only logical--and in this film, he performs the miracle of making an erection joke clever. Also, the running gag of bizarre California businesses is consistently funny, such as an acupuncture facility, in which customers walking out all look like hedgehogs. A frisky Coca-Cola machine nearly steals the show, and comes in handy later in a appropriately ridiculous manner. And who among us cannot crack a smile when witness to a high-speed wheelchair chase between Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise and Paul Newman. One would be remiss not to mention the fact that Burt Reynolds has both his name and a portrait of his face across the front of his mansion; if he doesn't have such a thing in real life, I will be sorely disappointed.While the film misses more than it hits, it's a pleasure to see it swing. The jokes that fall flat are quickly swept away by the charm of the movie and the childish optimism at the heart of it. I would rank it second-tier Brooks, along with "High Anxiety" and "History of the World, Part I." But second-tier Brooks is first-tier anyone else.

SanteeFats You must pay attention to the subtitles in this movie. I usually will not watch a subtitled movie but this one is worth it. Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise what more can one ask for in a comedy movie??? Harold Gould plays a campy studio head well. Sid Caesar, ahhh, what can one say about one of the funniest writers and directors ever? I love his movies. This one was a good one but, while I did not care for the subtitles, I did understand that they were necessary to the plot. The fact that Mel Brooks even thought of this kind of scenario just shows his comedic genius too me. I love all of his movies but of course there are some that are funnier than others. This one is one of his funnier ones even with the subtitles. '

tavm What I'm reviewing here is the last of the "Slapstickers" series of Movies on the Lawn at the Baton Rouge Gallery-a series of classic silent comedies presented at the last Saturday of each month with an accompaniment of a live contemporary band of which this particular movie I'm commenting on had the musical stylings of Caftan Green (I think that was the name of the group). Anyway, I had previously seen this on Cinemax with the original John Morris score so it was such a treat to watch this again with a brand new score with some familiar jazz numbers spread throughout. The gags thought by director/star Mel Brooks and others were quite funny especially when they involved getting Big Stars to do his movie of which one of them was his actual wife Anne Bancroft. And both Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman as his associates also contributed their own funny turns. I'm sure some gags may be dated to anyone born after the year this film was actually made but most of them are still quite effective today like the board of Engulf and Devour's reaction to their first viewing of a picture of Bernadette Peters' sexy poster. Oh, and many of the mostly middle aged audience I saw this with reacted appreciatively, laughing as loud as I did during the whole thing. So on that note, I very highly recommend Silent Movie. P.S. Since the score was a live one on this viewing, someone behind the screen said "Non!" when Marcel Marceau said the only spoken part of this picture.