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Just perfect...

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie is pure comedy gold and with its racial tones is sure to be the one movie Hollywood could never ever remake due to our societies "racial sensitivity" era. Smart, racially sensitive people will laugh along at the caricatures and absurdity of the characters, their actions and their performance. Ignorant, borderline racists will see this movie as a way to justify their biases. Still, you could have switched out all of the races and sexes in this movie and it would have still be funnier than hell. Make Gene Wilder a Chinese railroad worker, Harvey Kirkman the German burlesque singer/dancer, Madeline Kahn the new sheriff of racial minority and Cleavon Little the drunken gunfighter and the comedy is still there and still racially charged, even for the 70's era. A must see tongue-in-cheek comedy classic. No for ignorant people who do not understand the context of the humor.

This movie was not only not funny at all, but insensitive to a degree that deeply offended me. This movie should be destroyed and whatever remains should be scattered across the saharan desert.

I remember laughing through the entire film when it first came out in 1974, but it hasn't aged well. Aside from a very few special moments, it lacks any real wit or cleverness. Much of it could have been written by a group of twelve year old boys, trying to be shocking. But humor that is merely shocking has a limited shelf-life, and the shocks in this film are past the sell-buy date.Having said that, I will always cherish the scene in which Gene Wilder explains to Cleavon Little that the people of the town are simple farmers, people of the land.... That scene will always be brilliant.

I was mentioning this movie a while back to a co-worker, and she said, "Oh, that movie is terrible, it's so racist..." She didn't get it. There is a lot of politically incorrect language, a lot of use of the "N" word. But you have to pay attention to the context. All the racial slurs are done in such a way that the object of ridicule is the racist whites, not African Americans. In that sense, it's just brilliant. In one scene, when the black sheriff greets an old white woman on the street, she responds with "Outta my way, n****r! Later, after he has proved his worthiness as sheriff, she brings him a pie she baked for him as a token of appreciation "for saving our town from that horrible "Mongo..." Then, before departing, she says, "Oh, and, sorry about the "outta my way n****er..." Some 40+ years later, whenever I hear that line, I find myself rolling on the floor laughing... Pure genius!