Review – Blazing Saddles

This time around Mel Brooks apparently sets out to accomplish two goals: parody the western genre and serve up a little comedic commentary on race relations in the 1970s. He accomplishes the first goal fairly well, though I imagine I probably would have appreciated the parody a little more if I enjoyed the targeted genre (or even knew much about it, which I don’t). Brooks meets and exceeds the second goal, which in a way is unfortunate because it makes this movie very much a creature of its own time and a bit hard for folks in more politically sensitive times to appreciate. Those aspects aside, this is standard Brooks fare, highly dependent on sophomoric gags, sometimes funny and other times merely lame. Mildly amusing