Robin Hood: Men in Tights

5.00
    Robin Hood: Men in Tights
    1993

    Synopsis

    Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.

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    Cast

    • Cary ElwesRobin Hood
    • Richard LewisPrince John
    • Roger ReesSheriff of Rotingham
    • Amy YasbeckMaid Marian
    • Dave ChappelleAhchoo
    • Isaac HayesAsneeze
    • Mark BlankfieldBlinkin
    • Eric Allan KramerLittle John
    • Matthew PorrettaWill Scarlet O'Hara
    • Megan CavanaghBroomhilde

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Variety

      Robin Hood: Men in Tights marks a return to the wild, anarchic scatological comedies that made Mel Brooks a marquee name around the world. It is a film for his diehard fans and for a new generation who only know Mad Mel from legend.
    • 70

      IGN

      Men in Tights does work more often than not, even if the jokes are a little cheaper than normal.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees. Fortunately for Men in Tights, Mel Brooks has been doing this kind of thing for decades.
    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      It should be said that this negligible absence of Brooks’s boundary hopping wit and untamed performances doesn’t quite render Men in Tights unwatchable. There’s an appropriate, albeit languid merriment to the proceedings kept alive by a few choice cameos (Dick van Patten, Dom DeLouise, Brooks himself) and a handful of gags that land on their feet.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      It hits a couple of ecstatically funny high points, only to plummet into a bog of second-rate gags, emerging a long time later to engage the audience by the sheer, unstoppable force of the Brooks chutzpah.
    • 60

      The Dissolve

      A decent-enough inroad to one of film history’s most respected parodists.
    • 40

      Empire

      Sadly, this will not go down as one of Brooks' classics.
    • 40

      TV Guide Magazine

      Although sporadically funny and not quite the disaster it was initially made out to be, this ROBIN HOOD robs gags from other films while giving the poor viewer far too few laughs.

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