It is a tough choice, but blazing saddles is slightly more favorite for me. Better than both of them, however, for me, is the original version of the producers (if you want to talk about great Mel Brooks films)
“ Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?” “Certainly. You take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban”.
I laughed almost from beginning to end through Blazing Saddles, but found Young Frankenstein a big disappointment. The humour seemed really forced. I think it helps that I am not a fan of the Western genre in the first place, so anything that lampoons all those cliches will resonate with me.
I go Blazing Saddles because it never gets old. I can literally put it on at anytime and be drawn to it
Young Frankenstein drags a bit toward the end. Blazing Saddles is comedy perfection all the way through, as is The Producers in its original film version. Blazing Saddles is the enduring classic of potty humor! It's twue, it's twue, it's weawwy weawwy twue!
Ya know, it's funny, when I'm online I always read Frankenstein getting the slight nod over Saddles, but I've literally never met anyone in person who ever brings up Young Frankenstein in casual conversations, but I've had countless encounters with folks who mention Blazing Saddles. It's almost like when the two are compared by viewers of both, Young Frankenstein is strong. But I'm thinking more have actually seen Blazing Saddles. I'm guessing the all out political incorrectness of Blazing Saddles is what allows it to endure more in popularity
I think Young Frankenstein is the better realised film, but I laugh more at Blazing Saddles. Going for Frank, however.
Rio Bravo was on TV today. When Dean Martin has the shakes and can't fire his gun, all I could think of was Gene Wilder. "Yeah, but I shoot with this hand." Voted for Blazing Saddles. They're both great comedies, but Blazing Saddles is much funnier to me. Can't hurt when Richard Pryor co-writes your script. I hear Blazing Saddles mentioned way more often than Young Frankenstein in person too. Spaceballs is his most popular to the laymen though. It's his best selling title on video.
It’s interesting to note how outdated and inaccessible the humor of Young Frankenstein is to today’s generation. A different era.
This is the second comment I’ve seen along these lines. It prompts me to ask: if two films both aspire to be comedies, but one is funnier, inwhat sense can the other be said to be “the better film”?
I’ve see it theorised that Blazing Saddles is the film that single-handedly killed off the Western fil genre. After BS, you can’t watch any “serious” Western without thinking how silly the premise is. There may be some truth in that, though I think Star Wars can take some of the credit. Almost overnight the escapist film paradigm switched from Western to SF.
Both have held up well and are still great. I will go with Blazing Saddles by a nose, but it it super close. Way back in my bartending days, there were a few of us who had like 8-10 films we would often quote just randomly to amuse ourselves, and these were two of them. What's funny is that for all the lines in Blazing Saddles that none of us would have ever quoted for obvious reasons, there are still a hundred great quotable lines from it that we could say out loud.
