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starring: Mark Blankfield, Megan Cavanagh, Dave Chappelle, Dom DeLuise, Joe Dimmick
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302946383
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302946387
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 01, 1995
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 1045
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1993
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Editorial Review:
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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 Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - robin Hood men in tights
There are songs that you will never get out of your head. Our whole family loves this movies
Rating:  - I Thought This Was the Funniest Thing in the World...
...when I was in junior high. And now? Let's just say that Mel Brooks only hits one out of every 10 gags on the money, and them ain't good odds, folks.
Richard Lewis is a standout, while Cary Elwes and Dave Chapelle bring their unique charms to "Rottingham" Forest. You'll smile a lot, and maybe even laugh a few times. Fans of other Mel Brooks movies may be underwhelmed. Still, if slapstick comedies (such as "Scary Movie" and "Naked Gun") are your thing, this film is worth renting for ... Read More
Rating:  - Wonderful Silliness!
I enjoyed introducing my 12-year-old son to the humor of Mel Brooks with this classic take on Robin Hood. My son can't stop singing the song ("We men/Men in tights! ... ").
A classic comedy.
Rating: - Mel's Finest
My favorite Mel Brooks movie by a long shot. While almost all of them have moments of genius, and I'm sure people can argue endlessly for their favorite Brooks' movies, this one, for me, is the wittiest, looniest and most entertaining of them all. Unlike most of his movies, for instance, this one has no dead spots. It's laugh after laugh from start to finish. It's chock full of classic lines ("He's a smoothie," for instance by Richard Lewis; "It is good to be the king," by the king himself), classic ... Read More
Rating: - Hysterical and instantly enjoyable
Out of all of the Mel Brooks films that I have seen, there hasn't been one that I have enjoyed as much as Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Granted that Brooks has made superior films (Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs come to mind), there is just something about Robin Hood: Men in Tights that makes it instantly enjoyable from beginning to end. Mostly it has to do to the gleeful turns from the cast: Cary Elwes delightful turn as the bow and arrow armed hero, Richard Lewis' take on King John, Roger Rees as the ... Read More
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