When it comes to movie spoofs there is no better person to do them than Mel Brooks and with this movie he truly struck gold. The movie's story is what you'd expect of a traditional western film only with elements of satire and slapstick in the way only a person like Mel Brooks can make it happen. The story of the movie has to do with a plan to build a railroad track that leads into a town called rock ridge which would anger the residents and drive them out. The plan is orchestrated by a corrupt politician who happens to be the Attorney General named Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) who wants to make that town as empty as possible and convinces the Governor (Mel Brooks) to appoint a black Sherriff named Bart (Cleavon Little) to maintain order in the town (which is the last thing that Lamarr wants) but also to anger all of the townsfolk and drive them away even faster. On his first day on the job the citizens of Rock Ridge are shocked to find that they have a black Sherriff which he takes with a calm attitude and thick skin, then he meets a drunken man in a prison cell named Jim (Gene Wilder) who used to be known as "The Waco Kid" back in the day and spends his time drinking. then Bart meets a German woman named Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) who is hired by Lamarr to seduce him which she succeeds but then she becomes his friend and ally afterwards, which that happens ater an illiterate juggernaut called Mongo (Alex Karras) rides into town on an ox with orders to kill the sherriff and that plan failed while also becoming fond of the sherriff for single handedly defeating him. After all those plans fail Lamarr has no choice but to hire all kinds of criminals to get the people to leave town. The movie is laugh out loud hilarious from start to finish which is typical of Brooks films especially his directorial debut with "The Producers" (1967) which was also hilarious. This movie is a movie that totally cannot be made today because there is nobody that could get away with vulgar humor and make it funny at the same time the way Mel Brooks did.
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