Review – High Anxiety

Mel Brooks takes on Alfred Hitchcock in a parody of several of the latter director’s pictures. Frankly, it isn’t Brooks’s finest moment. For starters, you have to be familiar with Hichcock’s movies to get a lot of the jokes, unlike Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein that are funny on their own in addition to being great send-ups. But more than that, it just isn’t as clever as we’ve come to expect from Brooks. Sure, it has a good line here and there. But overall it’s silly to the verge of dumb. Mildly amusing