Watching The Producers is simply exhausting.
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12/15/05
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The Producers is a movie based on a play based on a movie about a play. And that's probably the funniest thing about it.
12/15/05
If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus.
12/15/05
Not for the resolutely politically correct or the shtick-averse. For everyone else, it's the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
12/15/05
An inert musical and a pale copy of a comedy classic.
12/15/05
Looks stagey on the big screen but has some sharp songs and good chemistry between an odd couple.
12/15/05
...will in no way supplant the 1968 original, but it is an amusing alternative for fans of musical theater.
12/15/05
As creaky as the traditional musicals it once poked fun at, The Producers has been entombed -- lox, shtick and two smoking bagels -- as a theatrical fossil, and reinforces the danger in returning to the same material one time too many.
12/15/05
Top CriticThe Producers is such a blast you have to wonder how great it could have been with a director who knew what to do with a movie camera.
12/15/05
Very little of the stage show's fizziness has found its way into a strangely pallid-looking picture.
12/15/05
The Producers might work okay on stage but it collapses the second the same material and songs get in front of a camera.
12/15/05
In theory, what's not to like? In reality, the whole schmear.
12/15/05
It may be that as audiences queue up for this latest incarnation of Brooks’ undying brainchild - - not unlike the patrons who turn back to their seats, mid-exit, during the opening-night performance of Springtime for Hitler - - the joke is on them.
12/15/05
If The Producers isn't the most perfect movie musical in years, then it comes pretty damn close
12/15/05
The new movie is a success, that I know. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. Someone who has seen the original once or twice, or never, would be a better judge.
12/15/05
Top Critic(Lane and Broderick) are still shouting to the cheap seats, forgetting that movie theaters are general admission.
12/15/05
Is it such a crime that it looks like theater vet Susan Stroman just plopped the company in front of a static camera and told 'em to go out there, kids, and put on a show? I don't think so.
12/14/05
Uma Thurman as a would-be actress is the one bit of genuine radiance in this aggressively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle.
12/14/05
Top CriticThere's no business like show business, and the musical Producers' considerable success showed the original movie to have been prophetic -- of itself.
12/13/05
Despite a certain manic energy, the comic schtick between Lane and Broderick feels as stale as last year's croissants; you can tell they've done these jokes a thousand times.
12/13/05
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