Blazing Saddles
Directed by Mel BrooksDe officier van justitie wil een spoorbaan aanleggen door de stad Rock Ridge en doet er alles aan om mensen uit de stad te jagen. De bewoners vragen de gouverneur om een nieuwe sheriff, maar hij wil niemand opofferen. De officier van justitie geeft hem dan het idee om een opstandige zwarte man als sheriff te sturen en de geschiedenis in te gaan als de eerste gouverneur die een zwarte een belangrijke positie heeft gegeven. De zwarte is echter beduidend slimmer dan de dorpsbewoners en is dan ook niet van plan om tussen zes planken te eindigen.
Blazing Saddles Ratings & Reviews
- Steven Schwalger26 februari 2026I'll start off by saying this has not aged well... at all. The abundant use of the N word is pretty jaring. If you can get past that this move becomes hilarious.
- Patrick Oyler2 februari 2026One of if not the best movie of all time
- parktool6928 januari 2026so racist????
- castlegary26 januari 2026Very funny in parts others not so much. The opening is great and Madeline Khon cabaret number the best others dumb. Could not get away with some of the stuff said today
- Joshua Leach22 oktober 2025Could never be made in this day and age. Classic as it may be, some people still wouldn't understand the satire. Go Into it with an open heart and you will enjoy it
- Juan Manuel Zavala10 januari 2026One of Mel Brooks best. A bit outdated to today's standards but still funny. Gene Wilder was the best.
- Brent Johnson2 januari 2026A classic hilarious movie.
- John Doe2 november 2025Blazing Saddles (1974) was written by (((Mel Brooks))), Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, and Norman Steinberg-all jewish. The film's overt themes of racial integration, White guilt, and a black sheriff "fixing" a White town can be seen as subversive, promoting multiculturalism and racial mixing. Brooks often used comedy to push social commentary, particularly on jewish-American issues, but Blazing Saddles extends this to racial dynamics. The film's plot-where a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) is appointed to a White town and solves its problems-can be interpreted as a metaphor for jewish assimilation into White America, but also as a vehicle to normalize interracial relationships and challenge traditional racial hierarchies. The film's use of satire and absurdity allowed it to tackle sensitive topics under the guise of comedy, making its subversive messages more palatable to a broad audience.
- Jeff29 maart 2025They said you was hung? And they was right!
- Vivian Love13 augustus 2025Aside from the 200 slurs across the movie it's really good. As someone falling into the category of some of the slurs just let it slide for this masterpiece
- Richard21 oktober 2025I caught Blazing Saddles on TV late one night, expecting a dusty Western and maybe a few chuckles. What I got was a cinematic Molotov cocktail, Mel Brooks at his most unhinged, swinging for every taboo like he was trying to break comedy itself. From the opening scene, it was clear this wasn’t your average cowboy flick. The jokes were fast, filthy, and fearless. Every stereotype got skewered, every sacred cow milked dry. I sat there slack, jawed, popcorn untouched, wondering how this ever made it past the censors, let alone onto my living room screen. Cleavon Little’s Bart was smooth as silk, Gene Wilder’s Waco Kid was the drunk philosopher I didn’t know I needed and Madeline Kahn’s Lili Von Shtupp? Pure vaudeville gold. But it wasn’t just the cast, it was the sheer audacity. The film didn’t tiptoe around racism, sexism, or Hollywood hypocrisy, it kicked the door in, cracked a fart joke and rode off on a blazing saddle. Could it be made today? Not a chance. The script would be shredded by committee before the first draft hit the printer. But that’s the point. Blazing Saddles wasn’t trying to be safe, it was trying to be honest, in the most absurd way possible. It held up a mirror to America’s prejudices and laughed so hard the glass shattered. Watching it on TV added a strange intimacy. No theater crowd to buffer the shock, just me, the remote and a growing sense that I was witnessing something both brilliant and completely bonkers. A fearless, foul mouthed masterpiece that couldn’t exist in today’s climate, but thank Schwartz it did back then. Watching it on TV felt like discovering a forbidden relic of comedy history and I’m glad I didn’t change the channel and I'm happy that I own it.
- Richard Thornton22 juli 2025Probably the best Mel Brooks movie. Today’s more squeamish audiences have a hard time connecting or engaging with it.
- Plexxor the Pretty Good2 juni 2025Just a classic, don't miss it. In my top 5 movies. John Wayne said his fans would never forgive him if he was in the movie but swore he would be first in line on opening night. He kept his word.
- AGENTROCKSTAR6 oktober 2025Definitely a classic to keep.
- Mekoehouve10 september 2025Hilarious!
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Blazing Saddles was released on 7 februari 1974.
Blazing Saddles was directed by Mel Brooks.
Blazing Saddles has a runtime of 1 u, 32 m.
Blazing Saddles was produced by Michael Hertzberg.
De officier van justitie wil een spoorbaan aanleggen door de stad Rock Ridge en doet er alles aan om mensen uit de stad te jagen. De bewoners vragen de gouverneur om een nieuwe sheriff, maar hij wil niemand opofferen. De officier van justitie geeft hem dan het idee om een opstandige zwarte man als sheriff te sturen en de geschiedenis in te gaan als de eerste gouverneur die een zwarte een belangrijke positie heeft gegeven. De zwarte is echter beduidend slimmer dan de dorpsbewoners en is dan ook niet van plan om tussen zes planken te eindigen.
The key characters in Blazing Saddles are Bart (Cleavon Little), Jim (Gene Wilder), Taggart (Slim Pickens).
Blazing Saddles is rated 6.
Blazing Saddles is a Komedie, Western film.
Blazing Saddles has an audience rating of 9.1 out of 10.
Blazing Saddles had a budget of US$ 2,6 mln..
Blazing Saddles has made US$ 119,5 mln. at the box office.