High Anxiety
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Movie Reviews of High Anxiety
Movie Review: Thank god! It's finally on DVD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I wrote another review of this film several years ago (February 8, 2001), wishing then that High Anxiety would be released on DVD. Now, finally, it has arrived (or at least will on 9/5). I know that most Brooks fans prefer The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles or even History of the World Part I. But in High Anxiety, Brooks satirizes my favorite director, Alfred Hitchcock, to a tee. Roger Ebert, among others, says that this is a misfire. Don't listen to them! When High Anxiety premiered, Alfred Hitchcock himself sent Brooks a bottle of expensive champagne, saying he loved the film and was honored by it. To me, that's the acid test -- anyone who doesn't like High Anxiety just doesn't get it.
(Please see my review of High Anxiety under the VHS listing)
Movie Review: High Anxiety-At last a scientific explanation for "pee pee" envy!
Summary: 5 Stars
High Anxiety (1977) was a really funny spoof on many Hitchcock films including Vertigo and Psycho. It was filmed at the prestigious "Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous" where Harvey Korman makes certain that his patients don't get well too quickly by taunting them with whatever their phobia happens to be. I especially enjoyed his werewolf imitation for patients reported to have seen them and stabbing patients by stealth with paper clips and other foreign objects to continue their source of unexplainable pain. I first saw this five star film with my wife in 1977 in Connecticut and we really enjoyed it.Movie Review: Still Can't Stop Laughing
Summary: 5 Stars
If meaning watching this movie six times in less than two months indicates I enjoyed it, then "yes" I did. After viewing it the first time, we even invited some of our friends to watch it with us. We have incorporated several of the funny lines into our every day living in order to humor one another. It has everything--funny dialogue and funny visuals. If you're an Alfred Hitchcock fan,it will be especially enjoyable as many of the scenes are "spoofs" on some of his most notable films--so enjoy!Movie Review: A really great parody of Hitchcock by MEL BROOKS
Summary: 5 Stars
I really like and respect the skill and humor of Mel Brooks. I also really like Alfred Hitchcock. Both these guys are masters of what they do(did). This movie High Anxiety, was one of the funniest I have ever seen. It's better to have seen the hitchcock films first, but not absolutely required. Mel's actors are very funny and do a sensational job. This movie will be most interesting to the fans of Mel Brooks.Movie Review: Great satire
Summary: 5 Stars
I like the frequent subtle Monty Python type humor. Some is in the background such as the wording over the asylum gate that it is for the very-very nervous. Others are from contrast. One example is the woman in her custom fitted suit and vest looking elegant and saying something about people being crazy and then spitting out some tobacco from her cigarette.