History of the World: Part I R
Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!
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DVD Details
- Widescreen
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Sid Caesar & Dom DeLuise | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Composition by | John Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Dirty jokes, some sparkle in uneven Mel Brooks classic.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: C- --
Brooks proved that increasing the vulgarity level doesn't necessarily translate into more laughs. Gag after gag falls flat in this potty-mouthed dud.
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FulvueDrive-in.com
History of the World, Part I-which has no sequel-spoofs multiple genres in this anthology showing that there are no limits to the mind of writer-director Mel Brooks.
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Solzy at the Movies
Rating: 3/5 --
Crude, rude Mel Brooks has low laughs
Kansas City Kansan
Mel Brooks' The History of the World: Part I contains plenty of belly-shaking laughs.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3/5 --
Occasional bright moments, but it's clear why there was no. part two.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
What [Brooks] takes to be the glorious folk humor that modern people have repressed looks to many of us like the tired jokes that were yawned off the burlesque stage 50 years ago.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
Product Description:
In this spoof of great moments in history from the dawn of humanity through the French Revolution, director Mel Brooks delivers a twisted history lesson through his signature satirical, madcap humor. Funny, vulgar, and narrated by the great Orson Welles, HISTORY OF THE WORLD - PART I tells the progress of humankind as cave dweller, tap-dancing slave, and biblical hero. The most famous bit in the film features Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. Other highlights include a hilarious "Hitler on Ice" sequence and other outrageous comic situations, unbelievably silly jokes, and inspired casting (Sid Caesar, Gregory Hines, and Madeline Kahn included), with the film itself mimicking several historical Hollywood epics, most notably THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, as well as a brilliant parody of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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- UPC: 024543371625
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