Comedy

‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’ (1993) a tight parody – with an English accent

“Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (1993) was one of my regular rewatches as a kid, vastly more so than “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991),

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‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ celebrates a hilarious career

Mel Brooks has a great sense of comic pacing and rhythm in his best movies. He knows when to get in and get out. “Mel

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‘Paradox of Chudnovsky’ (2025) takes its time reaching ‘TMNT’ fans

Toward the end of its holding of the “Star Wars” license, Dark Horse Comics released a good chunk of the under-printed stories in a couple

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‘Blazing Saddles’ (1974) sends up Westerns before running out of gas

Director/co-writer Mel Brooks starts his run of original genre spoofs in fiery fashion with “Blazing Saddles,” the first of a one-two punch in 1974 with

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‘Princess Bride’ (1987) both less and more than I remembered

Some have suggested Rob Reiner had the greatest five-film run of all time with “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Misery”

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‘Anaconda’ (2025): Don’t want none unless ya got laughs, hun

I probably would’ve liked “Anaconda” (2025) if it had come out eight years earlier to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film it’s riffing

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III’ (1993) and the multiverse that might’ve been

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” (1993) is correctly the most maligned of the trilogy. In retrospect, the handoff from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to All

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‘High Anxiety’ (1977) a Hitchcock celebration with some chuckles

Neither the height of parody nor the depths of a phoned-in throwaway, “High Anxiety” (1977) is likable comedy from a writer-director-star, Mel Brooks, who clearly

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‘Splash’ (1984) makes a name for itself despite being simple, silly

The wide-audience crowd-pleaser “Splash” (1984) plays today like a homework assignment for a viewer going through the catalogs of director Ron Howard (his first hit)

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‘TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze’ (1991): Was Shredder almost Michael Myers?

It had bothered me that the Turtles seem to be at April’s apartment for months while Shredder and the Foot Clan “simultaneously” regroup in days

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