“Wild, anarchic, scatological delight!” – VarietyNo one achieves stupid humor with quite the brilliance of Mel Brooks, and they don’t come much stupider or more brilliant than ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS. Starring Cary Elwes as perhaps the most credible Robin of Locksley to hit the big screen since Errol Flynn, Brooks’ free-wheeling satire is at once a loving tribute to the timeless tale and an all-out assault on good taste and propriety. Drawing heavily from Flynn’s 1938 classic as well as Kevin Costner’s bloated Prince of Thieves while, Brooks, in typical fashion, takes potshots at an eclectic selection of pop-cultural targets. Everything from Gone with the Wind to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gets felled by the film’s satirical blade. Brooks also diversifies this whitey-white tale, creating surely the very first telling of the Robin Hood legend to include jokes about circumcision and hip hop. Featuring a stacked cast that includes a pre-fame Dave Chappelle, a height-of-his-powers Richard Lewis, an arguably-past-their-prime-but-still-hilarious Dick Van Patten and Dom DeLuise, startling appearances by Patrick Stewart and Isaac Hayes, and Amy Yasbeck as the most sex-mad Maid Marian you’ve ever seen, MEN IN TIGHTS is such dumb fun it could only have been created by a comedy genius.
DID YOU KNOW? Men in Tights wasn’t Brooks’ first foray into Sherwood Forest. In the 1970s, he created a short-lived Robin Hood sitcom called When We Were Rotten. Before the film, we’ll be playing an episode of this little-seen chapter in Mel’s storied comedy career, starting at 3:45 pm.
This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s month-long series KNIGHTY KNIGHT, featuring knights in shining armor and other medieval tales!
Event Venue
Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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