Silent Movie
Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: June 16, 1976 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Mel Brooks will do anything for a laugh. Anything. He has no shame. He's an anarchist; his movies inhabit a universe in which everything is possible and the outrageous is probable, and Silent Movie, where Brooks has taken a considerably stylistic risk and pulled it off triumphantly, made me laugh a lot. Read full review
80
The New York TimesVincent Canby
A virtually uninterrupted series of smiles. Read full review
80
NewsweekJack Kroll
The gags as usual vary in quality from gold to zinc, but what makes Silent Movie more than a string of gags is the comic sensibility of Brooks. [12 Jul 1976, p.69]
75
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
When American films were addressing social turmoil like never before, Brooks used his clout to turn back the clock by combining silly sight gags, show-biz satire, silence, and celebrity cameos in 1976's aptly named, ingratiatingly goofy Silent Movie. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The slender plot of Silent Movie [from a story by Ron Clark] is basically a hook for slapstick antics, some feeble and some very fine (notably a wonderful nightclub tango with Anne Bancroft). Harry Ritz, Charlie Callas, Henny Youngman, and the late Liam Dunn are standouts. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
It's the kind of silliness that's too strained and self-indulgent to be enjoyable. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
A series of heavily telegraphed, desperately played and incredibly unfunny sight gags, Silent Movie is truly a maddeningly insulting salute to the golden age of film comedy. Read full review
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