Fans of those movies will appreciate the gesture, but this film isn't likely to make any new converts.
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12/27/05
The Producers (2005)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:75
Rotten:73
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Despite the rich source material, The Producers has a stale, stagy feel more suited to the theater than the big screen.
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $19,151,907
Synopsis: This remake of Mel Brooks' 1968 film features Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the roles that they originated in the smash Broadway adaptation of the original film. Broadway producer Max... [More]
Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Director: Susan Stroman
Reviews for The Producers
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
... an unabashedly old-fashioned musical filled with song, dance, and shtick so shticky you could hang wallpaper with it.
12/27/05
The movie is faithful to a fault.
12/27/05
... the film version is often more boisterous and brassy than a movie ought to be.
12/27/05
The jokes are in its tackiness, and gauchery, and raspberry-inducing send-up of Broadway traditions. On that level, the movie works fine -- and is a whole lot cheaper for the ticket buyer.
12/27/05
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Gary Beach have their singing, dancing and kvetching in the Broadway smash The Producers immortalized on film.
12/27/05
The material and the performers are strong enough to put it over. But there's no mistaking the final product for a good movie.
12/27/05
Zero Mostel, and Gene Wilder may have set the standard in the original film, but Lane and Broderick have produced something worth applauding.
12/27/05
There's a song in the stage musical version of 'The Producers' that, if you flipped the title to pose the opposite question, could summarize the letdown diehard fans will feel if they catch the new movie of Mel Brooks' gloriously retro Broadway smash.
12/27/05
If it's subtlety you're after, go see another movie. But if you just want to laugh, make a date with The Producers.
12/27/05
... a kitschy celebration of all things Mel.
12/27/05
There are bad movies, there are terrible, misguided mistakes and there are unbearable and embarrassing ordeals. The Producers: The Movie Musical is all of those.
12/27/05
On film, Lane and Broderick are stuck in manic overdrive, like a couple of guys who have been assigned the impossible task of reviving vaudeville.
12/27/05
It may not be great, but it is a movie.
12/27/05
[T]he most recent Producers is a clone of a clone, and what it adds in song and dance it loses in brevity and, as is so often the case, wit.
12/27/05
Susan Stroman, who directed and choreographed the Broadway show, has shot the movie as if it were the show ...
12/27/05
You're a lot better off going into The Producers as a musical-theater buff than as a film buff.
12/27/05
The 'zany' performances are like a well-oiled machine, and, consequently, much of the movie comes across as mechanical.
12/27/05
Static camera work alienates the audience.
12/26/05
enjoyable, even though Stroman's lack of experience behind the camera is sometimes glaringly evident. ...be aware that the show continues even after the credits roll...
12/25/05
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