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Saturday, May 9, 2020

History of the World, Part 1 (1981)

An American comedy directed by Mel Brooks, starring Dom Deluise and Cloris Leachman.
Short skits show important times in history: stone age, old testament, roman empire, Spanish inquisition & French revolution.
Mel Brooks is great at comedy. Some of my favorite scenes include the first art critic, Roman signs in the street scene, the Shim-Sham Sand Dance, detecting the non-eunuch, street crawling with Roman soldiers and ending the revolution meeting on a high note. The humor is pretty universal, or at least has a wide audience. Video and audio were recorded and edited well. I'm not going too deep on these "catch up" reviews. I rate it adequate. You might want to watch it.

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