Word: mel
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This Robin of Loxley gets his castle towed away and thus must seek vengeance against Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees) and Prince John (Richard Lewis). In most movies, this would serve as a stupid interlude; for Mel Brooks, it is a crucial plot development...
...Mel Brooks, as always, must show up, which is rather unfortunate because he is about as funny as lung cancer. He plays Rabbi Tuckman, a Friar Tuck stand-in who acts as master of circumcision with the slogan "Circumcision: Half-off". (Ouch!) His strong (only?) point is gratuitous penis humor, used so that the kids in the audience, who should be seeing "Snow White," would get a chuckle. Some people, such as Brooks, should not direct and act at the same time--nor, for that matter, should we let them do either separately...
...point of the movie? No one really knows, not even Mel Brooks. Basically, it attempts to achieve humor by making fun of homosexuals--a theme made quite evident by the title and the song "Men in Tights," which goes "We're men--we're men in tights...We may look like pansies/ But don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights...
...soon), one wonders why another is required. In fact, Charlie Sheen's chicken-arrow parody of the Robin Hood arrow scene was funnier. Because "Men in Tights" can only make fun of "Prince of Thieves," the storyline becomes dull and predictable and the viewers tend to wonder if Mel Brooks got his sense of humor from John Houseman...
...black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting last year, they put Mel Watt, a black Democrat, in Congress...