Review of Blazing Saddles (1974) by Richard Schickel for TIME Magazine — 21 Aug 2008
Like its many raucous predecessors, Blazing Saddles is a thing of bits and bits—some good, some awful—pinned to a story line that sags like a tenement clothesline. The movie tends to improve in the retelling, as memory edits out ineptitudes, the better to dwell on moments of glory.
.. But goldarned if it doesn't work. Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls "authentic western gibberish.
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This review of Blazing Saddles (1974) was written by Richard Schickel and published by TIME Magazine on 21 Aug 2008.
Blazing Saddles has generally received very positive reviews.
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