After putting together another Broadway flop, failing producer Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and his accountant, Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick), team up with each other in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
25 June 1969, Lumberton, North Carolina, USA
2 March 1962, Detroit, Michigan, USA
31 August 1935
16 October 1967, The Bronx, New York, USA
16 December 1965, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
22 March 1967, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
1978, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
August 02, 2007
The original was far funnier and somehow managed to cut to the chase with less of a song and dance.
December 27, 2005
... an unabashedly old-fashioned musical filled with song, dance, and shtick so shticky you could hang wallpaper with it.
December 27, 2005
The jokes are in its tackiness, and gauchery, and raspberry-inducing send-up of Broadway traditions. On that level, the movie works fine -- and is a whole lot cheaper for the ticket buyer.
February 09, 2006
This is extraneous for anyone who's seen the original film or show, presumably leaving everyone else to wonder what all the fuss has been about.
December 27, 2005
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Gary Beach have their singing, dancing and kvetching in the Broadway smash The Producers immortalized on film.
December 30, 2006
Confirmed my original opinion that the musical version of The Producers was a flash-in-the-pan success that won't be remembered ten years from now.
December 13, 2006
Director Stroman (who also choreographed the film) has also paid tribute to the theatre by casting such stage stars as Brent Barrett, Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba and Andrea Martin.
February 22, 2007
The play is everything in this uneven movie, which is alternately groan-inducing and side-splitting.
May 25, 2007
Be prepared to laugh from the opening credits through the closing credits.
September 27, 2006
The real reason to see this film is the addition of the musical numbers -- catchy and clever songs, written in the style of classic 1950s Broadway musicals.
December 31, 2005
Not so much a film as an awkwardly framed souvenir of the Broadway hit musical, The Producers needs a live audience like a candle needs oxygen.
December 27, 2005
There's a song in the stage musical version of 'The Producers' that, if you flipped the title to pose the opposite question, could summarize the letdown diehard fans will feel if they catch the new movie of Mel Brooks' gloriously retro Broadway smash.
