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.

I only liked this at first and didn't laugh, like 1974 audiences, but re watching it with a friend I couldn't stop laughing! I saw a 3rd time later. I even counted the amount of times I laughed and came to 83- 2 more than in The Hangover. My guardian doesn't like this because it's raunchy but I can name raunchier movies-Ted, There's Something About Mary, That's My Boy, The Hangover, etc. If you need a movie to lift you up, see Blazing Saddles! Fun Fact: The farting scene was muted because it was "too risque"-more than the countless N words!

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.

Mel Brooks here. If you've watched a bit of his work, you know the sort of humor we're dealing with here. This is your thick, and I mean THICK, old timey New Yorker humor that thinks anything over-the-top and outrageous is the good kind of silly, that mindset where laughter should be provoked rather than earned, like it's therapeutic - ah come on, just laugh a little will ya ! And although his work can sometimes really be funny, and I don't always disagree with that take on humor, this here is just lazy, lazy, lazy. This is self-indulgent and even more. Clearly, however different we may be from one another, this certainly can't be considered strong humor when it's so obvious, so blatant, and tries so hard. It may have Gene Wilder, it may have guns n a Western Spaghetti setting to work with, and some okay gags, but it's certainly no 8/10. Won't spend too much time commenting this, I'm done here.