History of the World: Part I Reviews

 (1981)

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Classic Mel Brooks.
Feb 27, 2009
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I think that if you like Mel, you'll like this. It is the classic sort of stupid humor. I loved it. I can't give it something like an A because it is just dumb humor, but for a comedy it is... Read more
Classic Mel Brooks.
Feb 27, 2009
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I think that if you like Mel, you'll like this. It is the classic sort of stupid humor. I loved it. I can't give it something like an A because it is just dumb humor, but for a comedy it is... Read more
What more to History? Get this!!!!!
Dec 29, 2007
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Mel Brooks has been th best movie directer from all time!! He proberly knew he was going to be history, so he came up with this hilarious time twisting movie. Who would think about a comedy movie where you can change... Read more
What more to History? Get this!!!!!
Dec 29, 2007
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Mel Brooks has been th best movie directer from all time!! He proberly knew he was going to be history, so he came up with this hilarious time twisting movie. Who would think about a comedy movie where you can change... Read more
Mel's stormy...
Aug 06, 2007
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Good not great Brooks... That means you get slightly more kitsch, vulgarity and old gags to the dollar than you can take but for every old-as-Methuselah gag (he even gets the old "Walk this way" staple in there), there are... Read more
History Of The World Part I (Mel Brooks, 1981) **1/2
Aug 04, 2007
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I had watched this as a kid, a popular but not highly-regarded Brooks effort. It is wildly uneven but, also, undeniably funny at times (even if most of the gags are, unsurprisingly, of the vulgar kind). Brooks managed to rope in... Read more
One Of My Favorite Comedies
Jun 18, 2007
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History of the World Part I (man, I wish they had done a part II!) is one of my all-time favorite comedies. In fact, this is my favorite Mel Brooks film.One of my favorite scenes is Mel Brooks as the... Read more
You've never seen this version of history before!
May 18, 2007
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This is probably on the same comic level as Mel Brooks' film, Robin Hood: Men In Tights. It's not hysterical, and it's not lousy either. This is one of the movies where the jokes that are funny hit you gut-bustingly and... Read more
You've never seen this version of history before!
May 18, 2007
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This is probably on the same comic level as Mel Brooks' film, Robin Hood: Men In Tights. It's not hysterical, and it's not lousy either. This is one of the movies where the jokes that are funny hit you gut-bustingly and... Read more
Greatest Mel Brooks movie!
Jul 28, 2006
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No matter how many times I watch this movie it is still funny. You can watch this movie and get some of it but it helps to understand history to get much of the indepth humor.... Read more