Directed by:
Mel BrooksCinematography:
Paul LohmannComposer:
John MorrisCast:
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas (more)VOD (1)
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Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name. (official distributor synopsis)
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Mel Brooks has completely disappointed me for the umpteenth time and his "parodies" are not even funny and certainly cannot match the work of other creators of this excellent genre. Unfunny, tacky and boring.
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I have had, have, and will have one fundamental problem with Mel Brooks, or rather with his films. Poor Mel had the misfortune of encountering clueless people, for whom hinting, directing, and pointing is not enough. Many of his jokes have decent potential, but he presents them so exaggeratedly that they lose all charm for me. He can't capture that delicate line between parody and awkwardness. But maybe the fault is in me, and I have set my boundary too high. In High Anxiety, where he takes aim at poor Hitchcock, he still holds back and thankfully doesn't push the envelope as much as he does in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, but even so, I can't give this film an overall impression of more than 40%.
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