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Name: History of the World, Part I
Released: 1981-6-12
Cast: Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks

History of the World, Part I

R
1h 32m
1981

61%

Join acclaimed funnyman Mel Brooks on an outrageous trip through history – and learn what “really” happened. Travel from a crazy spoof of 2001 to the Roman Empire, where Brooks plays a stand-up philosopher in Caesar’s Palace, to the French Revolution, where Brooks is King Louis XVI, and the Spanish inquisition, where this time, singing monks and swimming nuns perform fabulous musical numbers!

Director:

Mel Brooks

Producer:

Mel Brooks, Stuart Cornfeld, Alan Johnson

Writer:

Mel Brooks

Cast:

Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

61%

Critics Consensus: History of the World: Part I may not have enough comedic inspiration to merit a Part II, but the sporadic cleverness of these anachronistic skits are still a testament to Mel Brooks' gift for farce.

Reviews

Gone With The Twins

Mike Massie

As with many of the writer/director/producer’s works, not every gag lands (a couple actually fall quite flat), with a few portions meandering a touch, but several definitely stand out, sure to endure.

It’s Brooks’s audacity -- his treating cruelty and pain as a crazy joke, and doing it in a low-comedy context -- that gives History the kick that was missing from his last few films.

History of the World: Part I is Mel Brooks at his most appealing since The Producers and Young Frankenstein... This is just the sort of harmless, frequently hilarious summer movie that will appeal to adolescents of all ages.

"History of the World, Part 1" is one of the all-time great spoof comedies. Its genius can be seen right there in its title.

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Philadelphia Gay News

Larry Vitacco

As written and directed by Brooks, the movie's overreliance on sex, scat and Semitic jokes wears painfully thin halfway through the picture.

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