Conference bookie::movies

    re .0, well, you've just made up my mind, since I consider Spaceballs
    to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen!!  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    Thanks DFW, that's *exactly* the type of review I was hoping to see on
    this!  For me, Mel Brooks is either very very funny or VERY unfunny; no
    middle ground.
    
    *Maybe* I'll take Alex to a matinee... (what's the rating?)... just to
    see Cary Elwes.  On the other hand, maybe I'll just watch my copy of
    The Princess Bride - another hundred viewings of that and I might start
    to get tired of it.
    
    Leslie

The rating is PG-13 for "off-color humor".

    
    There's a brief glimpse of naked breasts (woman getting out of a bubble
    bath).  But the really naughty bits are covered.
    
    DFW

    For some kids the obsession with sex (here I mean intercourse and not
    courtship) that the Robin and Marian (as well as "Rottingham") have
    will be incomprehenisble.
    
    The film is no Young Frankenstein, and I believe that's because there's
    not enough material to bite into in the genre.  Mel Brooks is coasting
    here.
    
    Cary Ewles is just great in the role and so are many of the others in
    the cast.  You wish they have more and funnier material to world with.
    
    The promotional bits showed a arrow splitting a tree which is not in
    the film anyway.

    Time to admit to all of you that I did take my daughter to this and 
    AM I EVER SORRY!  What a DOG.  The jokes are almost entirely of the
    poo-poo ca-ca variety, interspersed with a circumcision running-gag,
    tiresome men-in-tights stereotypical camping, and heavy-handed
    anachronism takes.  And the WORST part was the timing: it might have
    been a little more bearable if the gags had been nonstop, but after
    every single so-called joke there was at least a beat and a half so we
    could all "get it" - ba da BOOM.  Let me tell you, this was one silent
    theater throughout.  I may have chuckled 4 or 5 times, and a couple of
    those were in disbelief that Brooks actually thought this was
    entertainment.
    
    Cary Elwes is gorgeous, but he was given nothing to work with and must
    have had all his subtlety (so exquisite in "The Princess Bride")
    squelched out of him by Brooks' leaden direction.
    
    Mortified that I went against my better judgement and the excellent
    first review here,
    
    Leslie

    
      If one wanted to try to write a letter to Mel Brooks, in this case
    about his Robin Hood movie, what would be the best address to send it
    too?
    
    I was very upset, there were several scenes in his bihind the scenes
    previews on Cinemax that were not in the movie.  But nevertheless, I
    was greatly entertained by the movie.  It must be my English sense of
    humor (smiles). 
    
     Carl 
    

    I don't know it offhand, but you might try a public Library in WHO'S
    WHO.....
    
    Or you could write C/O whatever actor's Guild he belongs to....
    
    MBH

Best is if you can find out who his agent is; any of the unions he is
likely to belong to (WGA West, DGA, SAG) could probably help.

Almost as good would be to write c/o the studio that released the
movie, in this case 20th Century Fox.

    Maybe the scenes that were shown on the trailers but not the movie were
    another joke on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. If I remember correctly,
    the arrow splitting the other arrows in its trailer was not in the
    movie either.
    
    
    Marilyn

    Although I thought the movie was funny, one bit of miscasting struck
    me: Richard Lewis as King John. Did anyone else picture Mel Brooks
    himself in that role? Would have made the movie funnier, I think.
    The lines as Lewis spoke them seemed ideal for Mel.
    
    I thought the Little John/Robin fight at the bridge scene was a riot!
    
    The satire is typical Brooks. I liked it.
    
    -- Bill

    Mel doesn;t usually 'play the lead' he usually does smaller - slightly
    larger cameo appereances.