Mel Brooks Best Movie.

[PeruvianSkies]

I thought about this and my initial thought was either BLAZING SADDLES or YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, but then I started thinking about it more and more and realized that while both of those films are pitch-perfect parodies and have become classics of the comedy-genre and were both in many ways fresh, groundbreaking films of the 1970's, which really established Mel Brooks as a director to be taken serious (or as serious as you can with Brooks). My vote goes to HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART ONE.

My rationale is that while many of his other films are great, this one combines his knack for comedic timing and here he takes the traditional epic and skews the entire thing into a parady-fest that encompasses so much and is relentless in it's execution. SPACEBALLS comes close, but there are times where it becomes too narrow in it's focus since it is just a parody on STAR WARS. When I worked in a video store many years ago I remember a few customers looking for HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART TWO.....they obviously didn't get the joke.

[Smokey]

Thanks GMichael, thekid and PS for comments. You guys seem to have trouble voting at first too

Gene Wilder seem to be synonymous with best of Brooks films and as thekid said, he made it more Gene Wilder's movie than Mel's. Richard Pryor was supposedly to star in two of his films (Blazing Saddles and History of World), but studio thought he might be too contravetial due to his drug problems. It would have been interesting to see what Pryor could have done with Brooks materials.

And I agree with you PS that Spaceballs probably is one of his “weaker” films.