In the german version he goes: "Weil ich, im Gegensatz zu einem anderen Robin Hood, den Produzenten keine 40 Millionen Costner." Which translates to: "Because I, unlike another Robin Hood, did not Costner the producers 40 Million."
To really understand this movie, you had to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner first. This is a direct spoof of that version of the movie.
My sister and I watched this film ALL the time growing up as kids. We quoted it CONSTANTLY. We knew all the script, start to finish. It was STUPID how much we were into this movie as kids 😂🤣😅
It's funny that the guy who played Will Scarlet O'Hara would go on to play Robin Hood himself in a TV series few years later. All in all, I think Roger Rees steals the movie more than anyone else.
@@toodlescae Thank you, I knew the title Abbott and Costello, but didn't watch the show. Of course, didn't knew either the gag in its original version is from there. In french, translators made it much less "niche" : When he walks the alley, people greets him with "Bonjour, mon père" (litt. "hello, my father" which totally works as a greeting for a cleric) then the last one, which looks like him says "Salut p'pa ! " ("Hi dad !"), and him to answer "Je hais ce gosse !" ("I hate that kid !")
You MUST watch, "Blazing Saddles", by Mel Brooks. The scene where Dave pumps up his sneakers was ad-libbed. Dave forgot to change his shoes in wardrobe before the scene. While filming he added the joke. Mel liked it and kept it in the movie. ✌️❤️🌹
Fun cameo for Patrick Stewart, in that 2 years prior, he was forced to play Robin Hood (of a sorts) by Q (John de Lancie) in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Qpid, Season 4, Episode 20).
In the parodied original, "Robin Hood: Prince of thieves", there is a similar scene of king Richard returning for the wedding at the end - played by, not Patrick Stewart, but Sean Connery. Which was also a surprise appearance, uncredited even.
My favorite is Don Giovanni!! Most people don’t get that he’s supposed to be from Jersey, Britain. But he has a New Jersey accent, that’s the joke. Lmao every time!
One of the reasons Carey Ewes got the part is because of his close resemblance to Errol Flynn although in my opinion he looks more like Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Fun fact, Cary Elwes learned how to fence for The Princess Bride from Bob Anderson, who made his first movie appearance in the Errol Flynn movie, The Master of Ballantrae.
OMG this film takes me back. I never heard my dad laugh so friggin hard when I was a kid than he did with this film. I will ALWAYS remember this as THE FIRST TIME I ever saw Dave Chapelle
A Mel Brooks movie is ALWAYS a good time. I think Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead And Loving It are underrated among his films, but Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs are genuine comedy classics.
Just wait until you see Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles then. Men in Tights is Mel Brooks C game but those three I mentioned are the A game.
Roger Rees, who portrays the Sheriff of Rottingham, was a phenomenal actor. He had a recurring role on The West Wing as Lord John Marbury for which he chewed the scenery every time. He had about 100 roles in his career so you likely saw him in other things as well. RIP.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights was the first (and currently only) Mel Brooks movie I've ever seen. I didn't quite know what to expect. I ended up loving the movie. The movie is filled with well-timed/executed comedy, great acting, and great fight choreography. It's great. My favorite part of the film, however, is Amy Yasbeck. It'd make sense if you knew me.
I love this movie, I still watch it at least once a year. It was one of my first Mel Brooks’ movies, along with Spaceballs. The joke about speaking with an English accent was a small dig at Kevin Costner who played Robin in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and could not do the accent so he and Christian Slater just stayed American among the full English cast - but it’s actually one of my other favourite childhood movies and worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.
This movie was made right after the Gulf War. The "Patriot Arrow" was a reference to the anti-ballistic Patriot Missiles which were frequently mentioned in news reports back then.
"Some other Robin Hoods" who can't speak with an English accent apparently refers to Kevin Costner, who starred in _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ (1991). That's the movie that probably inspired the making of this one.
Fun fact: Matthew Porretta (Will Scarlett O'Hara) currently works with Remedy Entertainment as characters in the games Alan Wake (as the eponymous protagonist) and Control (as Dr. Casper Darling and Alan Wake).
Mel Brooks first tried his hand at a Robin Hood comedy in the 70s. There was a short-lived tv show called "When Things Were Rotten" (all 15 episodes are on youtube) Dick Van Patten - the guy who conducted the wedding ceremony, aka the abbot, played Friar Tuck on the show. There was a moment on the show where he himself does the "HEY ABBOTT!!!" joke. I didn't realize that the moment in this movie was a call-back. He says "I hate that guy". Of course, it was an Abbott and Costello reference.
And "The Producers," "The Twelve Chairs," "Young Frankenstein" (she can save that one for October), "Silent Movie," and the original "Planet of the Apes" _before_ watching "Spaceballs."
This movie references both Costner's movie, and Errol Flynn's movie. The latter especially during the shadow play during the climactic sword fight. Stewart is speaking in an obvious Scottish brogue, throwing shade at Sean Connery appearing as Richard in Costner's movie. "It's good to be the king" is a running gag from History of the World Part One. You really should watch Blazing Saddles, one of Brooks' signature movies.
I love how you'll sit down to watch an insane parody/satire film like this with absurd cartoon logic and still express genuine concern over the characters getting hit or hurt! haha
“Let’s give him the CHOP!” As someone who lived in Georgia for over a quarter-century, and as a big Atlanta Braves fan, this joke landed very well :D (Yes, I’m aware Florida State did it first)
I just noticed that this and Spaceballs both had a woman/robot protecting the leading lady as a "virgin alarm" type character and they both had marriages that were interrupted. The mole changes places like 4-5 times in the movie, sometimes even vanishing. The battle at the creek with Little John on first watch had me dying. Also Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and this movie all had the 4th wall breaks with the filming crew. A lot of similar jokes that Mel Brooks always went with lol
Rabbi Tuckman is Mel Brooks, the writer and director of this movie, and all of the "Mel Brooks movies". He always plays at least one role in each of his movies, and sometimes more.
The mole gag with Prince John is inspired by a gag used in Young Frankenstein where Marty Feldman (who plays Igor) moved around his hump from one side to the other until Gene Wilder (who played Fredrik Frankenstein) noticed.
SO MANY QUOTES!!! I love this movie. It was also my first introduction to Mel Brooks. A funny story though, when I was in college I got requested to play a fanfare for a bride's entry at a wedding of a friend. My dad and I were both trumpet players then and we learned the tune the Sherriff's men use for his entry. To this day, no one has figured that out.😈🤣
Blinkin is one of the best parts of this movie. And they did a good job making it look as though he was blind. If you watch, there's always someone holding on to him to guide him or just make sure he's generally facing the right way.
There are so many callbacks and spoofs to the other Robin Hood movies that you really need to watch them all to really understand all the jokes on them. Great reaction, Addie. Love this channel.
This is a childhood classic. I was 11. English comedian Tracey Ullman plays Latrine and I still get a kick out of her facial expressions and delivery. She had her own groundbreaking sketch comedy show in the 80s and she played a teenager with 2 dads named Francesca. It was wild for the time. She almost breaks character in this moving after she says "I touched it."
31:59 poor Little John. Now his name means a bathroom. 34:50 I love how Mel Brooks always teases sequels but hasn’t done a sequel. One of his to check out is “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. It’s his remake of “Blazing Saddles” that he made a few years ago. I love how he made it work for the 21st century.
I'm glad this movie still holds up so well. Satires can kind of fade as pop culture changes because no one gets the references, but this just has so much humor you can still have a good time with it regardless.
"Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent" was a shots fired against Kevin Costner. Though many movies are lampooned in this one, it's mostly a spoof of "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," starring Costner, which came out a couple years earlier. And it's ironic, because the American accent is more ancestral than the English accent, so the accent of pre-modern Englishmen would have more closely resembled that of modern Americans anyway. (Actually, even closer still to Canadians, eh?)
Yes, That was Sir Patrick. FUN FACT: Sir Sean of 007 fame played same part of Richard III in RH Prince of Thieves. Also nearly twice as long hence the line of a lot to do and less time to do it in, I love Brooks' films but this is one you should have watched the Costner version first though that it mainly parodied. The line on the English was the fact he was English and most Robin Hood films going back to Flynn had non English actors in the role.
This was mostly a spoof on Kevin Costner's 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', but also of other adaptations. Robin striking a pose is one such reference from older movies. The thing about the 'English accent' is a reference to Kevin Costner's try to speak it as well as the surprise appearance of a big name actor as King Richard in the end.
In case you didn't know "Ahh-Sneeze, father of Ahh-Choo" was portrayed by the late, great Issac Hayes. Not only was he one of first black people to get an Academy Award, but he's in both the Songwriter Hall of Fame & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And, he was the voice of Chef on "South Park". He was a grezt man. Not just as an entertainer, but as a human being. You should learn more about him.
A lot of people never connect the "hangman" in this movie with the same guy, in the same outfit, with the same accent, was the "hangman in "Blazing Saddles".
The actor playing the Godfather character was Dom DeLuise. His son, David was the villager who asked whether Yay or Nay meant "Yes." If you ever get round to watching the Cannonball Run movie, Dom DeLuise absolutely steals the show as Burt Reynolds' sidekick.
There's a lot of references to two other Robin Hood movies in this version, specifically 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' & the classic 1938 Errol Flynn movie 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'. You really need to see both when you get the chance.
And just like with your *_Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_* video, I saw this & immediately began chanting: "Addie! Addie! ADDIE!!" *_LOVE_* your reaction vids, Addie.
So, this one parodies the two most famous and most successful Robin Hood movies: 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland (as Marian), Basil Rathbone (as Sir Guy of Gisbourne [the Sheriff in this version is a bumbling idiot, Gisbourne is the bigger villain], and Claude Rains (as Prince John), and also 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman (as Azeem, the Moor), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (as Marian), and the late, great Alan Rickman (as the Sheriff of Nottingham, the villain of the movie [this is the first adaptation in a long time that doesn't include Prince John]). There are definitely a lot of elements taken from both movies for this parody. Robin's costume is almost identical to the Errol Flynn version, as are the costumes of the Merry Men and Marian, Robin walking into the banquet with the stag on his shoulders (one of the most iconic scenes from the 1938 film), having all the Merry Men pledge at the tree, and of course the archery contest...all of which were not included in the Costner film. From the Costner film the parody takes the idea that he was a prisoner in Jerusalem during the crusades, staged a breakout, and helped free a prisoner. The sheriff's costume, Marian's very curly and uncovered hair, the witch in the lower levels of the castle, and of course the much remarked upon fact that Kevin Costner TRIED to do an English accent, but he slipped out of it a LOT which only becomes more obvious since he's acting next to the incomparable Morgan Freeman who maintains his accent the whole time. "Prince of Thieves" also had a very famous surprise cameo at the very end for King Richard the Lionheart (I won't spoil it) and Patrick Stewart here is doing a spot-on impression of that particular actor. If you like older films, Adventures of Robin Hood is a great classic movie, and of all the Robin Hood adaptations it was the gold standard for more than 50 years. Prince of Thieves then came along and gave the story a more realistic feel and setting, and it became the second-highest-grossing film of 1991. They dropped some of the iconic scenes from the classic Robin Hood tales (like the archery contest set as a trap to catch Robin) but kept others, and overall I saw it as a high school senior and LOVED it, so I recommend it.
The shadow fight scene is inspired by a much older Robin Hood movie from the 30's or 40's staring Earl Flynn, and the movie took several jabs at Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Kosinar. Mel Brooks references other movies often in his movies and having seen the other movies add greatly to seeing his movies.
The "Patriot Arrow" is named after the Patriot missile system that is used for air defense by the United States and many allies. It's a guided missile that can maneuver to hit targets, and that's why this arrow was named after it.
Mel Brooks enjoys writing musical numbers in his movies. Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the world. The only exception I can think of is Silent Movie. 😂 The actor who plays the Executioner is the same one in a similar role in Blazing Saddles. 😮
The mole moving around is a running joke in many of mel brooks movies. Young Frankenstein it was igors hump. It's one of my favorite jokes in mel brooks movies, also love the "walk this way" joke.
This wasn't the first time Mel Brooks did a comedic take on Robin Hood. Prior to this he had a short-lived sitcom on TV called _When Things Were Rotten._ (The theme song is a real hoot.) It had the same sort of zany humor. Elwes provided the voice of the titular character in a totally charming animated film from Studio Ghibli called _The Cat Returns._ I make it a point to rewatch it every year around Thanksgiving. The English dub features an all-star cast.
8:42 - "What?" - Nobody seems to get that joke. The kid is parody of Kevin from Home Alone. 12:50 - "Damn, white men can't jump." - That's actually the name of a 1992 movie starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. 14:48 - "Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent." - That's a shot at Kevin Costner's portrayal of Robin Hood. 32:22 - "It's good to be the king." - A reference to Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1. My friend didn't know Patrick Stewart was in this either. When he asked me who played King Richard, I said "Some British guy." He was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be him. :)
13:44 In case you're not aware, that's the title of a film released just one year before this one, starring Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, and Rosie Perez.
She’s one of the few reactors that caught the “life saver” joke.
This is the first time I noticed(before she said it).
that joke didn't work in the UK, we have a similar candy but we call them Polos, so the double meaning was completely lost on us
I've seen this movie so many times, and I've somehow never noticed that until this reaction :) .
"Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."
*shocked gasps*
Bloody right
Kevin Costner diss haha
Funny enough, given the time period, the English accent as we know it didn't exist and as nobility Robin would only be speaking French.
In the german version he goes: "Weil ich, im Gegensatz zu einem anderen Robin Hood, den Produzenten keine 40 Millionen Costner."
Which translates to: "Because I, unlike another Robin Hood, did not Costner the producers 40 Million."
"It's good to be the King!" is a line from "History of the World Pt 1",which is also worth a watch!
Mel's finest work!!
Hump! Death! Hump! Death! Hump! Death!
Same with the black sheriff line about "Blazing Saddles". Any Mel Brooks movies are worth a watch. Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, et al.
#MoreMelBrooksForAddieCounts
"Walk this way!" (Both "Young Frankenstein " and "History of the World")
Screaming kid was a dated Home Alone Kevin McCallister gag
The 'Pump' sneaker gag is even more dated, IMO.
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy True,
but at the time was cutting edge, hottest item in footwear...
Home Alone is also good.
The kid is a Physician's Assistant now.
To really understand this movie, you had to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner first. This is a direct spoof of that version of the movie.
There are also many scenes directly lifted from the Errol Flynn version.
hence the 'talk with an english accent' line
so many people reacting missing more than half the jokes.
And Patrick Stewart's appearance mimicking a similar cameo by an unexpected actor in "Prince of Thieves."
I seen the Kevin Costner film once and it was every bit as bad as I thought it would be with him in it
Oh snap. Are we starting a Mel Brooks run here!?
I sure hope so!
My sister and I watched this film ALL the time growing up as kids. We quoted it CONSTANTLY. We knew all the script, start to finish. It was STUPID how much we were into this movie as kids 😂🤣😅
that's understandable, i was 10 when it came out, 31 years later and i still love it to death
🎶We're men, men in tights.....YASS!!!🎶 still kills me. 😂😂
The “Godfather” scene with Dom Deluise always kills me!
The freaking lizard!!!
Are you d-e-d ded?
@@vovindequasahi - "Don Giovanni... Your lizard seems limp."
- "At my age, you know sometimes..."
*Hahaha*
"Hey, go like this (clicks his tongue) Heh heh heh He can't do it heh heh heh"🤣
@@maximillianosaben Hahahaha
It's funny that the guy who played Will Scarlet O'Hara would go on to play Robin Hood himself in a TV series few years later.
All in all, I think Roger Rees steals the movie more than anyone else.
RIP Richard Lewis, Roger Rees and Dom DeLuise. I guess Robin got the last laugh against his enemies after all..
“Heyyyy Abbbotttttttt!” - ☠️everytime
"I hate that guy!"
The Abbot was played by Dick Van Patten, who played Friar Tuck in Mel Brooks' TV Robin Hood spoof, "When Things Were Rotten ".
And no one who isn't familiar with Abbott & Costello get the joke now.
@@toodlescae Thank you, I knew the title Abbott and Costello, but didn't watch the show. Of course, didn't knew either the gag in its original version is from there.
In french, translators made it much less "niche" : When he walks the alley, people greets him with "Bonjour, mon père" (litt. "hello, my father" which totally works as a greeting for a cleric) then the last one, which looks like him says "Salut p'pa ! " ("Hi dad !"), and him to answer "Je hais ce gosse !" ("I hate that kid !")
@@67Daidalos you should check out some of Abbott & Costello's movies. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein is hilarious.
You MUST watch, "Blazing Saddles", by Mel Brooks.
The scene where Dave pumps up his sneakers was ad-libbed. Dave forgot to change his shoes in wardrobe before the scene. While filming he added the joke. Mel liked it and kept it in the movie. ✌️❤️🌹
watched this SO many times back in the day, and Little John not being able to swim still cracks me up 😂😂😂
Fun cameo for Patrick Stewart, in that 2 years prior, he was forced to play Robin Hood (of a sorts) by Q (John de Lancie) in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Qpid, Season 4, Episode 20).
In the parodied original, "Robin Hood: Prince of thieves", there is a similar scene of king Richard returning for the wedding at the end - played by, not Patrick Stewart, but Sean Connery. Which was also a surprise appearance, uncredited even.
My favorite is Don Giovanni!! Most people don’t get that he’s supposed to be from Jersey, Britain. But he has a New Jersey accent, that’s the joke. Lmao every time!
* Oh yeah, and RIP 🪦 RICHARD LEWIS!
One of the reasons Carey Ewes got the part is because of his close resemblance to Errol Flynn although in my opinion he looks more like Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Fun fact, Cary Elwes learned how to fence for The Princess Bride from Bob Anderson, who made his first movie appearance in the Errol Flynn movie, The Master of Ballantrae.
OMG this film takes me back. I never heard my dad laugh so friggin hard when I was a kid than he did with this film. I will ALWAYS remember this as THE FIRST TIME I ever saw Dave Chapelle
😂H&R Blockhead....still makes me laugh like hell
hehehe
A Mel Brooks movie is ALWAYS a good time. I think Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead And Loving It are underrated among his films, but Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs are genuine comedy classics.
My favorite is still history of the world part I. The producers is good too
The movie starts out as a spoof of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner, which came out a while before this one was made.
Maybe Addie could react to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)? I'd watch it, despite Costner's very un-English accent.
This movie is funny on it's own but it's funnier with context. It's like watching Space Balls without having seen Star Wars.
There are a few references to the Errol Flynn version as well
@@shawnmiller4781 And one or two to Robin Hood Daffy too. Parry. Dodge. Spin. Ha. Thrust.
Haha "d-e-d, dead" I still use that line!
This was my first Mel Brooks movie, I can still quote most of it
Just wait until you see Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles then. Men in Tights is Mel Brooks C game but those three I mentioned are the A game.
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are two comedy classics that you have to watch.
8:41 The screaming blond boy = "Home Alone" movie.
Roger Rees, who portrays the Sheriff of Rottingham, was a phenomenal actor. He had a recurring role on The West Wing as Lord John Marbury for which he chewed the scenery every time. He had about 100 roles in his career so you likely saw him in other things as well. RIP.
We're men!
We're men in _tiiiiights!_
We roam around the forest lookin' for fights!
Shower.
@@josephwallace20215:30
@@SwiftJustice shower, then apply for work.
@@josephwallace20215:52
@@SwiftJustice then pay your parents back rent.
Mel Brooks is a Legend for me, especially in Spaceballs.
You should watch more Mel Brooks movies. Blazing Saddles is a classic!
A black sheriff?!
@@InfiniteJustice Too bad Addie didn't get that reference.
Fun fact: The guy with the daggers is the voice actor of Alan Wake.
Are you serious?? I never put that together. That's amazing!
He would also go on to play Robin Hood on TV!
Robin Hood: Men in Tights was the first (and currently only) Mel Brooks movie I've ever seen. I didn't quite know what to expect. I ended up loving the movie.
The movie is filled with well-timed/executed comedy, great acting, and great fight choreography. It's great.
My favorite part of the film, however, is Amy Yasbeck. It'd make sense if you knew me.
You were a big fan of John Ritter?
@@Deathbird_Mitch I did like Clifford growing up, but that's not exactly what I'm going for.
WORF: I am _not_ a merry man!
The legend had it coming, Addie. (In response to the title of this video) It's no wonder why you couldn't stop laughing from this movie.
Patrick Stewart going over the top rolling those R's. Loved it.
I love this movie, I still watch it at least once a year. It was one of my first Mel Brooks’ movies, along with Spaceballs. The joke about speaking with an English accent was a small dig at Kevin Costner who played Robin in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and could not do the accent so he and Christian Slater just stayed American among the full English cast - but it’s actually one of my other favourite childhood movies and worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.
This movie was made right after the Gulf War. The "Patriot Arrow" was a reference to the anti-ballistic Patriot Missiles which were frequently mentioned in news reports back then.
"Some other Robin Hoods" who can't speak with an English accent apparently refers to Kevin Costner, who starred in _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ (1991). That's the movie that probably inspired the making of this one.
Fun fact: Matthew Porretta (Will Scarlett O'Hara) currently works with Remedy Entertainment as characters in the games Alan Wake (as the eponymous protagonist) and Control (as Dr. Casper Darling and Alan Wake).
I have seen this movie a million times, but I still laugh like a madman 😂😂 One of my favourite Mel Brooks movies
Mel Brooks first tried his hand at a Robin Hood comedy in the 70s. There was a short-lived tv show called "When Things Were Rotten" (all 15 episodes are on youtube)
Dick Van Patten - the guy who conducted the wedding ceremony, aka the abbot, played Friar Tuck on the show. There was a moment on the show where he himself does the "HEY ABBOTT!!!" joke. I didn't realize that the moment in this movie was a call-back. He says "I hate that guy".
Of course, it was an Abbott and Costello reference.
Now ya gotta watch; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, History of the World: Part 1.
And "The Producers," "The Twelve Chairs," "Young Frankenstein" (she can save that one for October), "Silent Movie," and the original "Planet of the Apes" _before_ watching "Spaceballs."
This movie references both Costner's movie, and Errol Flynn's movie. The latter especially during the shadow play during the climactic sword fight.
Stewart is speaking in an obvious Scottish brogue, throwing shade at Sean Connery appearing as Richard in Costner's movie.
"It's good to be the king" is a running gag from History of the World Part One.
You really should watch Blazing Saddles, one of Brooks' signature movies.
I love how you'll sit down to watch an insane parody/satire film like this with absurd cartoon logic and still express genuine concern over the characters getting hit or hurt! haha
"It's good to be the king" is from "History of the World Part II" also by Mel Brooks.
*Part I
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy My bad. I see there was a 2023 TV show based on it called Part II.
“Let’s give him the CHOP!”
As someone who lived in Georgia for over a quarter-century, and as a big Atlanta Braves fan, this joke landed very well :D
(Yes, I’m aware Florida State did it first)
@LtDan-rk4si Didn't you see the news last year - some "reporter" picked on a nine year old for dressing up, painting his face and doing the chop.
I just noticed that this and Spaceballs both had a woman/robot protecting the leading lady as a "virgin alarm" type character and they both had marriages that were interrupted. The mole changes places like 4-5 times in the movie, sometimes even vanishing. The battle at the creek with Little John on first watch had me dying. Also Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and this movie all had the 4th wall breaks with the filming crew. A lot of similar jokes that Mel Brooks always went with lol
The moving mole is the same gag as Igor's moving hump in "Young Frankenstein"
Rabbi Tuckman is Mel Brooks, the writer and director of this movie, and all of the "Mel Brooks movies". He always plays at least one role in each of his movies, and sometimes more.
"I didn't know we'd have musical numbers!"
Juuuuuuuuuuuuust wait!
Robin Hood is a version of GREEN ARROW OF JUSTICE LEAGUE and I'm watching the movie right now on UA-cam Blessings and HUGS 👑💜
The mole gag with Prince John is inspired by a gag used in Young Frankenstein where Marty Feldman (who plays Igor) moved around his hump from one side to the other until Gene Wilder (who played Fredrik Frankenstein) noticed.
The screaming peasant kid is a Home Alone reference. He even says "I got to go Home Alone now" before he does the Macaulay Culkin scream and runs off.
SO MANY QUOTES!!! I love this movie. It was also my first introduction to Mel Brooks. A funny story though, when I was in college I got requested to play a fanfare for a bride's entry at a wedding of a friend. My dad and I were both trumpet players then and we learned the tune the Sherriff's men use for his entry. To this day, no one has figured that out.😈🤣
I love this movie!! Don't know how many times I've watched it, and I still find new funny bits I've missed before.
Cary Elwes rocks as always!
The 7:09 and 8:38 marks is the kid making fun of Kevin in Home Alone.
Blinkin is one of the best parts of this movie. And they did a good job making it look as though he was blind. If you watch, there's always someone holding on to him to guide him or just make sure he's generally facing the right way.
There are so many callbacks and spoofs to the other Robin Hood movies that you really need to watch them all to really understand all the jokes on them. Great reaction, Addie. Love this channel.
So many of the characters are inspired straight from "Prince of thieves" a very good Robin Hood movie.
Indeed, Patrick Stewart is our King!
You cut out the best line in the movie! 😭 ”A toll's a toll and a roll's a roll and if we don't get no tolls, then we don't get no rolls"❤
Mel Brooks' famous quote "It's good to be the King" from the movie History of the World!
This is a childhood classic. I was 11. English comedian Tracey Ullman plays Latrine and I still get a kick out of her facial expressions and delivery. She had her own groundbreaking sketch comedy show in the 80s and she played a teenager with 2 dads named Francesca. It was wild for the time. She almost breaks character in this moving after she says "I touched it."
How can you reference Tracey Ullman Show and not mention The Simpsons?
31:59 poor Little John. Now his name means a bathroom. 34:50 I love how Mel Brooks always teases sequels but hasn’t done a sequel. One of his to check out is “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. It’s his remake of “Blazing Saddles” that he made a few years ago. I love how he made it work for the 21st century.
I'm glad this movie still holds up so well. Satires can kind of fade as pop culture changes because no one gets the references, but this just has so much humor you can still have a good time with it regardless.
The horse in the balcony scene.. Oh Hell No! 😂
Proud of ya, for the Star Wars reference!
"Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent" was a shots fired against Kevin Costner. Though many movies are lampooned in this one, it's mostly a spoof of "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," starring Costner, which came out a couple years earlier. And it's ironic, because the American accent is more ancestral than the English accent, so the accent of pre-modern Englishmen would have more closely resembled that of modern Americans anyway. (Actually, even closer still to Canadians, eh?)
Yes, That was Sir Patrick. FUN FACT: Sir Sean of 007 fame played same part of Richard III in RH Prince of Thieves. Also nearly twice as long hence the line of a lot to do and less time to do it in, I love Brooks' films but this is one you should have watched the Costner version first though that it mainly parodied. The line on the English was the fact he was English and most Robin Hood films going back to Flynn had non English actors in the role.
This was mostly a spoof on Kevin Costner's 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', but also of other adaptations. Robin striking a pose is one such reference from older movies. The thing about the 'English accent' is a reference to Kevin Costner's try to speak it as well as the surprise appearance of a big name actor as King Richard in the end.
To be fair, Costner didn't actually attempt an accent in that movie... which isn't the same as doing an accent badly.
In case you didn't know "Ahh-Sneeze, father of Ahh-Choo" was portrayed by the late, great Issac Hayes. Not only was he one of first black people to get an Academy Award, but he's in both the Songwriter Hall of Fame & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And, he was the voice of Chef on "South Park". He was a grezt man. Not just as an entertainer, but as a human being. You should learn more about him.
This was a very funny film. Mel Brooks. Tracey Ullman. Richard Lewis. And the guy who played Rebecca's rich boyfriend on Cheers.
A lot of people never connect the "hangman" in this movie with the same guy, in the same outfit, with the same accent, was the "hangman in "Blazing Saddles".
The actor playing the Godfather character was Dom DeLuise. His son, David was the villager who asked whether Yay or Nay meant "Yes." If you ever get round to watching the Cannonball Run movie, Dom DeLuise absolutely steals the show as Burt Reynolds' sidekick.
Shout out to the late Roger Rees who was at the top of his game as the Sheriff of Rottingham and really stole every scene he was in.
"It's good to be the King." - "I understood that reference!"
There's a lot of references to two other Robin Hood movies in this version, specifically 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' & the classic 1938 Errol Flynn movie 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'. You really need to see both when you get the chance.
And just like with your *_Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_* video, I saw this & immediately began chanting: "Addie! Addie! ADDIE!!"
*_LOVE_* your reaction vids, Addie.
Patrick Stewart was in a scene in the Star Trek TNG Episode called Qpid where he played the part of Robin Hood
“I can speak with an English accent “is a Kevin Costner joke. (previous Robin Hood)
So, this one parodies the two most famous and most successful Robin Hood movies: 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland (as Marian), Basil Rathbone (as Sir Guy of Gisbourne [the Sheriff in this version is a bumbling idiot, Gisbourne is the bigger villain], and Claude Rains (as Prince John), and also 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman (as Azeem, the Moor), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (as Marian), and the late, great Alan Rickman (as the Sheriff of Nottingham, the villain of the movie [this is the first adaptation in a long time that doesn't include Prince John]).
There are definitely a lot of elements taken from both movies for this parody. Robin's costume is almost identical to the Errol Flynn version, as are the costumes of the Merry Men and Marian, Robin walking into the banquet with the stag on his shoulders (one of the most iconic scenes from the 1938 film), having all the Merry Men pledge at the tree, and of course the archery contest...all of which were not included in the Costner film.
From the Costner film the parody takes the idea that he was a prisoner in Jerusalem during the crusades, staged a breakout, and helped free a prisoner. The sheriff's costume, Marian's very curly and uncovered hair, the witch in the lower levels of the castle, and of course the much remarked upon fact that Kevin Costner TRIED to do an English accent, but he slipped out of it a LOT which only becomes more obvious since he's acting next to the incomparable Morgan Freeman who maintains his accent the whole time. "Prince of Thieves" also had a very famous surprise cameo at the very end for King Richard the Lionheart (I won't spoil it) and Patrick Stewart here is doing a spot-on impression of that particular actor.
If you like older films, Adventures of Robin Hood is a great classic movie, and of all the Robin Hood adaptations it was the gold standard for more than 50 years. Prince of Thieves then came along and gave the story a more realistic feel and setting, and it became the second-highest-grossing film of 1991. They dropped some of the iconic scenes from the classic Robin Hood tales (like the archery contest set as a trap to catch Robin) but kept others, and overall I saw it as a high school senior and LOVED it, so I recommend it.
The shadow fight scene is inspired by a much older Robin Hood movie from the 30's or 40's staring Earl Flynn, and the movie took several jabs at Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Kosinar. Mel Brooks references other movies often in his movies and having seen the other movies add greatly to seeing his movies.
It's mainly making fun of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but there are jabs at previous versions too.
The Hangman in here was also the Hangman in Blazing Saddles. Same actor playing the same character wearing the same outfit
The "Patriot Arrow" is named after the Patriot missile system that is used for air defense by the United States and many allies. It's a guided missile that can maneuver to hit targets, and that's why this arrow was named after it.
Mickey Rooney, (1920-2014), "Boy's Town". Follow that up with James Stewart, (1908 -1997), "Mr. smith Goes to Washington".
Two of my favorite actors.
The "godfather" is also the "director/choreographer" in Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks enjoys writing musical numbers in his movies. Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the world. The only exception I can think of is Silent Movie. 😂
The actor who plays the Executioner is the same one in a similar role in Blazing Saddles. 😮
The mole moving around is a running joke in many of mel brooks movies. Young Frankenstein it was igors hump. It's one of my favorite jokes in mel brooks movies, also love the "walk this way" joke.
Addie, it's always fun when we can see how much you enjoy a movie like you did in this one 😀
Amy Yasbeck, the other beautiful redhead on screen, was a supporting character in the hit TV sitcom on NBC in the 90s, "Wings".
This wasn't the first time Mel Brooks did a comedic take on Robin Hood. Prior to this he had a short-lived sitcom on TV called _When Things Were Rotten._ (The theme song is a real hoot.) It had the same sort of zany humor.
Elwes provided the voice of the titular character in a totally charming animated film from Studio Ghibli called _The Cat Returns._ I make it a point to rewatch it every year around Thanksgiving. The English dub features an all-star cast.
The singer during Robin's song was the great Nelson Eddy, a huge star in the 30s
15:04 - love how the sheriff holds the opposite side of his face that was hit.
New to this channel from the U.K. 👋 this was a childhood fave of mine. Great reaction video and look forward to more 😊
Besides the blazing saddles reference, he also referenced "History of the world part 1" with the "It's good to be king"....should watch both of those.
8:42 - "What?" - Nobody seems to get that joke. The kid is parody of Kevin from Home Alone.
12:50 - "Damn, white men can't jump." - That's actually the name of a 1992 movie starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.
14:48 - "Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent." - That's a shot at Kevin Costner's portrayal of Robin Hood.
32:22 - "It's good to be the king." - A reference to Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1.
My friend didn't know Patrick Stewart was in this either. When he asked me who played King Richard, I said "Some British guy." He was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be him. :)
Great movie
"Watch my back!"
"Your back just got punched twice."
One of my favorite comedic exchanges of all time:
Achoo - Hey, Blinkin
Blinkin - Did you just say Abe Lincoln?
It's so funny and so unnecessary.
13:44 In case you're not aware, that's the title of a film released just one year before this one, starring Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, and Rosie Perez.
"A toll is a toll and a roll is a roll, and if we dont get no tolls we don't eat no rolls"