Metacritic Film

Producers, The (re-release)

Starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor, Christopher Hewett, Lee Meredith, and Andréas Voutsinas

MPAA RATING: PG

Rialto Pictures
Comedy  |  Musical
88 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters June 7, 2002

A re-release of writer/director Mel Brooks's cult comedy classic.

WRITTEN BY
Mel Brooks

DIRECTED BY
Mel Brooks

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

97 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Boston Globe
The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
100 New Times (L.A.)
Maniacally funny. It remains neck and neck with "Young Frankenstein" as Brooks' best film.
100 Chicago Sun-Times
This is one of the funniest movies ever made. To see it now is to understand that. To see it for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even "There's Something About Mary" rivals it.
90 Village Voice
However familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine.
80 TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
Mel Brooks's first and funniest, a spoof of Broadway theater that has earned a deservedly devoted cult following.

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