After hiring a band of miscreants to ransack the town killing the sheriff, the town asks for a new sheriff to be appointed. Lemar sends them Bart. An insubordinate black railroad worker. They are not very impressed.
This is a gag reel deluxe. It's full to the brim with one liners, sight gags, hilarious close to the knuckle jokes and contains the glorious put down, "Teutonic twat!"
It would be a five star film, but the ending lets it down. It appears Brooks was writing it as he went along and just couldn't figure out a conclusion, so borrowed from Monty Python.
The ensemble cast is great, but Gene Wilder is on particular good form in a role that requires him to be restrained. He reels it in and he is as funny as his usual madcap self.
Amusing songs, laugh riot, great pace and sparkling dialogue. It is a typically daft Mel Brooks piece, but the ending is just a little too zany.
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