Featured Audience Ratings

• Alexander D

  
  In terms of being a reverent homage to the silent era, SILENT MOVIE is a complete failure. But with a director like Mel Brooks, dubbed the Master of the Spoof, you can't quite expect this to be a 1976 comparison for THE ARTIST. We understand from the very beginning that this is… More
  In terms of being a reverent homage to the silent era, SILENT MOVIE is a complete failure. But with a director like Mel Brooks, dubbed the Master of the Spoof, you can't quite expect this to be a 1976 comparison for THE ARTIST. We understand from the very beginning that this is more of a comedic pasquinade than a melodramatic homage, once we see color cinematography and hear corny, Three Stooges-esque sound effects. Yes, the film is silly. It's about as nonsensical and stupid of a romp as you can get, quite frankly. But as this is a comedy that pays no mind to being straightforward or taking itself one bit seriously, it just makes it all the more fun. Because stupid is as stupid...entertains, I guess. shhh!!! read it all at themoviefreakblog.com!!!

• AJ V

  
  In case you're wonder, yes this movie is silent! Brooks brings us nostalgia of the old silents, and it is hilarious. If you like his films, I highly recommend seeing this one too.

• Universal D

  
  so bad it's good, brooks, as usual ("if it works, don't fix it") mugs his way thru this movie about the very movie yer watchin' ("a brilliant idea!!!"), the promised homage to silent films is trampled somewhere, raped in an alley and left for dead.… More
  so bad it's good, brooks, as usual ("if it works, don't fix it") mugs his way thru this movie about the very movie yer watchin' ("a brilliant idea!!!"), the promised homage to silent films is trampled somewhere, raped in an alley and left for dead. what's left is bits and pieces. the women steal the show here, bancroft and peters turning in the only valid performances. the best part is unintended, wherein "the stars" pose for cameos in the credits "as themselves" and we get to see their apparent discomfort playing that part. it was made in the seventies, and mere nostalgia prompted me give this film one more star than it deserved, and maybe a star and a half.

• Jennifer D

  
  I think the mimicking of silent era acting was funny even if the story was so so. Still, the slapstick and physical comedy made it worth it. "Ars es pecunia" was the greatest line of the whole movie, for any of you with an ounce of Latin.

• Tim S

  
  Bless you Mel Brooks. Even when your movies weren't perfect, they're still a hell of a lotta fun.

• Byron B

  
  Being a silent movie most of the jokes are visual gags. Many many good visual gags, especially the ones involving the style of silent movies. Some action is sped up to humorous effect, the sound effect selections are zany, and the title cards are used sparingly. Marty and Sid mug… More
  Being a silent movie most of the jokes are visual gags. Many many good visual gags, especially the ones involving the style of silent movies. Some action is sped up to humorous effect, the sound effect selections are zany, and the title cards are used sparingly. Marty and Sid mug for the camera quite a bit, most of the time to great effect, but sometimes to lesser success. Bernadette Peters was wonderful. This combined with the couple comedies she did with Steve Martin in the late 70's and early 80's show she has great comic talent. Some of the segments with the big stars Mel is seeking are better than others. The first celebrity, Burt Reynolds, is the best at sending up his perceived personality.

• Mike N

  
  Shine on me luminous today, and shine on past the tops of my shoulders Show my feet the step ahead, stay hope on the gilded road to dawn All the world must forget me now, as scattering ravens its memory flown And bury my years in bone and ash, please spare not yesterday its tomb Take… More
  Shine on me luminous today, and shine on past the tops of my shoulders Show my feet the step ahead, stay hope on the gilded road to dawn All the world must forget me now, as scattering ravens its memory flown And bury my years in bone and ash, please spare not yesterday its tomb Take me where the song needs singing, take me to the time I'm gone Where dust of higher things float free, and boughs of ancient forests yawn Of quiet excite in empty theaters, that merry shadow dance is mine The truth of dreams is morrow's words, a verse away from being known So as one concedes Imagine's game, its buoyant laughter wise and long I leave my eyes and better lives, embalming pulse of showers loom To walk this path of blinding summits, a thousand kings away from golden

• Daniel D

  
  Despite the very high rating this is not my favorite Mel Brooks movie. It just wasn't the funniest think he put out there. I loved the originality, which the 2011 Oscar winner The Artist stole from it. But this movie wasn't laugh out loud funny

• Doctor S

  
  Best gag is actually the one speaking line! Or rather, the person who says it.

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