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Mel Brooks returns to the big screen with a version of his Broadway hit musical and also a previous screen version.  About two producers who try to stage a musical that is so bad it has to flop, they find a work called Springtime for Hitler, gather together an appalling cast and watch it become a surprise success as a satire.  This leads them off to prison and further adventures.  Well, this is definitely different!  A spoof of the great musicals it is very well performed but can be a bit theatrical in parts.  The first part drags somewhat and some of the songs could have been shorter.  Nevertheless there are some excellent scenes and when it is really working you are truly grabbed and find yourself laughing out loud.  Highlight for me was Will Ferrell as the deranged pro Nazi composer – he is a scream.  Uma Thurman does a good Swedish sex maniac and Matthew Broderick is always fine as the straight guy.  Nathan Lane is the other pillar of the film and shows what a talent at musical comedy he is.  Worth seeing!

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