The Producers
AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: March 18, 1968 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
96
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Universal acclaim based on 6 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances. Read full review
100
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
Maniacally funny. It remains neck and neck with "Young Frankenstein" as Brooks' best film. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is one of the funniest movies ever made. To see it now is to understand that. To see it for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even "There's Something About Mary" rivals it. Read full review
90
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
However familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not credited)
Mel Brooks's first and funniest, a spoof of Broadway theater that has earned a deservedly devoted cult following. Read full review
80
CineVueJohn Bleasdale
The Producers is so effusively inappropriate and so damned funny it is one of the highest examples of low comedy. Read full review
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