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Robin Hood - Men in Tights It’s not Blazing Saddles, but there are some chuckles to be found in Mel Brooks’s 1993 spoof of the Robin Hood legend. Cary Elwes is Robin (with a lighthearted jab at Kevin Costner’s bad English accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), while Richard Lewis plays an angst-ridden King John, and Roger Rees a snotty Sheriff of Nottingham. Comic David Chappelle has some good moments as the only black member of Robins’s noble thieves, and Brooks does his own spin on Friar Tuck: Rabbi Tuchman. The song-and-dance sequences featuring a chorus line of the Merry Men (”We’re men / men in tights”) is vintage Brooks, but otherwise the film can’t get any traction. –Tom Keogh
Customer Review: I need a new copy - we watched ours to death
As soon as this is available on DVD I will buy it. Anyone who can’t enjoy this movie just has no sense of humor. It is on my list of the 3 funniest movies ever made: Men in Tights, Spies Like Us and Twins (I didn’t say best, I said funniest). One thing you notice after seeing it for the 10th or so time is that the actors are having the time of their lives. This movie is so fun that even watching the actors ham it up is fun. “My dog Pongo? Run over by a carriage. My goldfish Goldie? Eaten by the cat. My cat? Choked on the the goldfish.” Hey, Blinken, indeed.

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