Tardy takeoff on the already anachronistic Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Mel Brooks, trying to shoot his way out of a slump, keeps firing up the jokes, clanging bricks off the front of the rim or, just as often, heaving airballs. Among them are a "chorus" of rappers, a nomadic mole on the face of Prince John (this joke is eventually pointed out in the dialogue in case it's too subtle), a sorceress named Latrine (not even Tracey Ullman, made up to look weirdly like Phyllis Diller, can manage to be funny), a Rabbi Tuckman in place of Friar Tuck, a black character called Achoo ("A Jew?"), a not bad, but not applicable, imitation of Brando's Don Corleone by Dom DeLuise, and a "surprise" appearance by Patrick Stewart, speaking with a thick Scots burr in honor of Sean Connery. Brooks now pays less attention than he once did to matters of style, and he cannot even accurately copy one of his old jokes. Remember the Hitchcockian moving camera in High Anxiety that crashes through a pane of glass? Here, with less reason for a Hitchcockian moving camera to begin with, he cuts to a second camera on the other side of the glass in order to anticipate the breakage: the point is lost. With Cary Elwes, Amy Yasbeck, Roger Rees, Richard Lewis. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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