Amazon.com Essentials:
Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age,
the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty
pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces
in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well
with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely
but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar's soldiers (the other
Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the
French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works
best if you're in a take-it-or-leave-it mood. --Tom Keogh
