To Be or Not to Be
by Alan Johnson
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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, Mel Brooks, Tim MathesonDirector: Alan Johnson
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of To Be or Not to Be
Movie Review: Mel Brooks Is Fun and Funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
TO BE OR NOT TO BE is classic Mel Brooks with a few jabs at political commentary as only Mel Brooks can do!
It's fun and magical with even a running Shakespearian joke and a musical duet that cracks a lod laugh when you realize what there singing about.
Hilter, Gays in the Military, Circus Acts, Theatre, Life in the 40's and many more genre's were directly satired.
This was the last performance with his wife Ann Bancroft as his leading lady and their chemistry was amazingly electric. (She did appear with her husband again in a small part in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.) A film not as well received - but it was good to see them together again.
Other cast members who gave tremendous performances included Tim Matheson, Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and the always amazing Charles Durning (Mrs. Santa Claus, Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.
Director Alana Johnson was going for a ensemble piece, but with key cast like Mel, Anne, Charles and Timothy it's hard to let everyone shine all the time.
Overall - I found this ovie extremely funny and inventive, however, just a little bit slow in the middle. Id on't know if kids will find the humor as entertaining as the adults - but it is definately Mel Brooks. 3-26-09
Summary of To Be or Not to Be
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/05/2006 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: PgNo filmmaker seems to take such glee at poking fun of the Nazis as Mel Brooks. In To Be or Not to Be, a remake of a 1942 Jack Benny comedy, Brooks and an all-star ensemble cast have a splendid time working as a makeshift Polish underground in World War II, using as their cover their theatrical company. Brooks stars as Frederick Bronski, a legend-in-his-own-mind leading man, and Anne Bancroft, Brooks' real-life wife, is his glamorous--and amorous--spouse. It's a joy to see the two spar, snuggle, and softshoe together. Bancroft, in her early '50s, is so gorgeous and seductive it's perfectly believable that she's beguiling to men of all ages--from a hunky young flier played by Tim Matheson to a wizened Nazi collaborator played by Mel Ferrer. As one would expect in a Brooks film, there's lots of silliness, but the script is leavened with real drama and fleshed out by a superb cast, including Charles Durning as a semi-clueless Nazi official. There are witty blink-and-you'll-miss-them moments, too; early in the film, Bronski is barking orders to his theater staff, including one crew member who's named Sondheim, apparently solely so that later Bronski can bark, "Sondheim, send in the clowns!" Also not to miss is the production number "Naughty Nazis," in which Bronski, as a misunderstood Hitler, sings, "All I vant is peace... a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France...." No wonder he's "world famous in Poland"! Extras include a behind-the-scenes making-of featurette, and interviews with Brooks, Durning, and the lovely Bancroft, all the more bittersweet viewed after her 2005 death. --A.T. Hurley
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