Anyone else besides me like "Silent Movie?"

[Archae]

I enjoy so many of Mel Brooks' movies, but why is it, no one ever mentions one of his funniest ones, "Silent Movie?"

Every time I watch the DVD, I just about fall over laughing.

[Aristus]

1. I just saw it again the other day.

My parents took me to see it when it first came out in 1976. I was seven.

I liked it back then, too. A silent film offers a lot of opportunities for the kinds of things kids like; slapstick mostly.

Love it!

[Archae]

4. Especially that soda machine!

[Aristus]

6. As a kid growing up playing 'war', it was fun to see a Coke machine used as an

artillery piece, and the individual cans as grenades.

The bit about pulling the pop-top and throwing the can like a grenade was hilarious!...

[Archae]

7. And Dom DeLuise covering the openings the cans flew out of...

Except the middle one...

[DFW]

2. I liked it too

But for me, nothing, NOTHING could ever come close to Young Frankenstein.

<Ahoooooooooo!>

Werewolf!

Where wolf?

There! There wolf!

Why are you talking like that?

I thought you wanted to.

No, I didn't want to talk like that.

Suit yourself, I'm easy.

[mackerel]

3. My Granfather took me to see it when I was a kid and do remember liking it then.

I'll have to Netflix it.

[MrMickeysMom]

5. Loved it...

I love Mel.

Such great writers that produced that were behind "Your Show Of Shows" with Sid Ceasar from the 1950's early television.

[gratuitous]

8. To quote Marcel Marceau . . .

"Non!"

[Kingofalldems]

9. My favorite Mel Brooks movie.

Dom De Luise was great in it.

[whistler162]

10. Yeah except for at the end when that one

character ruins it all by talking. The nerve who did he think he was Marcel Marceau or something? Jeeez!!

[kas125]

11. My dad lost his hearing when he was 12 so when that movie

came out, my mom and I were anxious to take him to see a movie where he could actually "get it" without us having to explain what went on after we got home. He sat there silently through the whole thing and we assumed he didn't like it. When we got in the car to go home, he said, "wow, my sides hurt from trying not to laugh." When we asked why on earth he would try not to, he said he couldn't hear anybody else and didn't want to be the only one in the theater laughing out loud.