History of the World, Part I [1981] review

• The Stone Age
• Quick 6 minute, rapid fire sequence with some funny bits
• Fire, Art Critic, and Marriage were the highlights for me
• The Old Testament
• Moses bit is classic and probably the most popular / recognizable sequence from this film, but sadly it's only the one bit
• The Roman Empire
• This goes on for 43 minutes and after the rapid fire and fast pace established by the first two sections, this one felt way too long
• The highlights were the Hugh Hefner cameo, the Eunuch test, the quick Senate bit, the Trojan Pharmacy joke, the Moses callback, and the Last Supper scene
• The Spanish Inquisition
• 10 minute musical number with a maybe a chuckle or two but it's just one joke stretched way too long; it's almost like when Family Guy puts a random musical sequence in their episode to fill time
• The French Revolution
• This sequence was the sole focus of the last 30 minutes of the movie
• Count de Monet joke was funny at first but then it started to lost its luster the more it was repeated
• "It's good to be the king" was maybe said one too many times
• Fun fact: The female lead in this sequence was Pamela Stephenson who was Lorelei in Superman 3. I don't know her from anything else
• We get a meta call back to the Roman Empire sequence and the movie ends; I did like the Mel Brooks and Gregory Hines kiss
• Coming Attractions
• All 3 were great; I didn't realize that Mel took the music from the Jews in Space sequence and used it for the Men in Tights song in the movie of the same name

I'd think I'd give the movie a 6/10 overall.  I'm really looking forward to the eights episodes of History of the World Part II coming to Hulu on March 6, 2023.