The Producers (2005)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Wonderful character development!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely brilliant

A little more music and embellishing of several plot points that were passed over in the original film are what distinguishes this musical version of The Producers. It's a musical version about a film that had a plot about two men who try to create the biggest flop in the history of Broadway and a musical.Taking the places of Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as the producing partners Bialystock&Bloom are Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Both these guys are given an impossible task of repeating two classically congruent performances that Mostel and Wilder created. Even the additional bits of business just can't make me forget the original. Will Ferrall did not come over from Broadway to do the role of the hermit like Nazi living in Greenwich Village and caring for his carrier pigeons. He had to do double duty because he also took the place of beatnik method actor Dick Shawn from the original. I'm not sure that combining the roles was the best thing, I'm also not sure Ferrall did real justice to either try as he might on both. Kenneth Mars was the reclusive Nazi author of Springtime For Hitler. in the original. Both he and Shawn were almost as memorable as Mostel and Wilder.I do love the Mel Brooks humor, but I think he laid it on a bit thick with the gay stereotyping of Gary Beach and Roger Bart. It came this close to the good side of being offensive, but not quite.There's a lot to like in this version of The Producers, but I think Mel should not have touched his masterpiece.

I was totally disappointed by this. I'm a big fan of both Mathew Broderick and Nathan Lane,, but wow, this really was a stinker.!!!! It was totally over acted - like watching a cheesy Broadway farce or something. If they had both played it straight with a comedic touch this could have been a great film. Too much over the top with the intended comedy. Too bad,, i have to blame this one on direction. Although the sets and scenes were pretty cool as was the costumes and art direction. But all in all,, just not good. Sorry guys,, really have to give this a thumbs down, and i'm disappointed at having to do this because i really love both of these actors.

I had great expectations of this movie; after all, I had watched the original 1968 version and enjoyed it very much. However I was never more bored watching endless Broadway songs one after another during the whole movie. The dialogs were dull, and the few laughs it offered were not enough to make up for the remainder of the movie. I feel like I wasted an hour and a half of my life. The original movie contained an actual story; whereas here we are greeted with songs interspersed with a few lines of actual dialog. I expected a lot better from this cast, but unfortunately, while trying to create a flop, they flopped themselves in a major way.

2 stars? I must be in a charitable mood. The original movie of 1967 (per IMDb) had comic geniuses Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, who were well supported by Kenneth Mars and many others. The Broadway musical was, like this movie remake, aimed at people of degraded tastes. Truly wretched songs were added, for one thing, and they have been apparently transferred to this movie version of the Broadway show. Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are garish caricatures. They do not perform and do not act; they merely mug and pose and throw themselves about clumsily and unconvincingly. (It's arguable which of the two is worse.)The role of Franz Liebkind has been greatly and badly inflated expanded from a nice little counterpoint for Mostel and Wilder to a feature role for Will Ferrell, who is not good in it: it's just more mugging. Broderick and Lane? What was the casting director thinking? Box office, I guess.