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| ACTORS: | Mel Brooks |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mel Brooks |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 October, 1970 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381917420 |
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Customer Reviews of The Twelve Chairs
Not Mel's Best---but right up there Seeing the films Mel Brooks has directed in recent years, it is hard to understand where he lost his muse. His early works are full of genius and uniformly well-cast. The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein are all classics today. The Twelve Chairs should be, for it rates with those other three as a film of comic genius. <
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>The plot is set in the 1920's USSR and does a masterful job of skewering the Soviet system while capturing the flavor of Russia. Ron Moody is a deposed nobleman whose dying mother tells him that she hid the family jewels in a set of dining room chairs. As Moody hunts them down, he inadvertently teams up with drifter and opportunist Frank Langella. The villain is Father Fyodor (Dom deLuise), an Orthodox priest who hears about the wealth in mama's deathbed confession, and then cuts off his whiskers and joins the scavenger hunt. <
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>Moody is great in the madcap role he plays as former Marshal Vorobyaninov. His legs-all-akimbo, owlish countenance is ideal. Langella's character is a pathologically mendacious delight. Dom deLuise overacts a bit and is somewhat intrusive. Mel Brooks himself has a modest cameo as Tikhon, the Marshal's old servant, waxing nostalgic for the good ole days when he could enjoy being slapped around by the nobility. <
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>There's sometimes touchingly artistic cinematography, good pacing, and a neat soundtrack combining everything from the Internationale to the Brooks-written title song "Hope for the Best." <
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>If the film has a flaw, it's that towards the end it gets a bit too serious and loses the madcap edge that the jerkily-fast-photographed chase scenes gave it early on. But that's the only star off the top for this gem. <
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>Well worth the price and a good addition to your collection!
Something a person can watch without fastforwarding
This is one of those movies that we all wish there were more of: movies that the youngest and oldest members of the family can watch together without having to distract, cover the ears or eyes of anyone or fastforwarding.
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>This movie made my entire family laugh so hard that we ached the next day. IT is definitely an overlooked gem of a film that really deserves to be in the film library at home. A wonderful, hilarious and even touching film. We love it.
Hilarious, The Best Mel Brooks Movie EVER!!!
By far my favorite Mel Brooks movie. Highly reccommended! I found this in a friends parents movie cabinet, lonely and unwatched. I ended up keeping it.
The comedy is a bit more subtle than many of Mel's movies.
Ostap Bender, the main character is a sexy con man, best liar in the world. Mel Brooks plays a former slave who misses the good old days when he master "hardly ever beat us." There's really not much I can say, except-WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!