The verdict seems clear: Mel Brooks continues to thrive as the auteur of disorder. Further, his blasphemies on Hulu this week serve as a welcome distraction from the numbing debates that usually do…
has become discomfiting to those multiverse voters who are not yet prepared for interdimensional rupture.
By contrast, the blasphemies of Brooks’ world history seem deliciously dated, imbued as they are with pop media references. Where else would you find jokes about Henry Kissinger, Shirley Chisholm or Ulysses S. Grant?comeback, this time as a champion ice skater. When that Brooks musical opened on Broadway, the fear was that its basic “plot” was both too inside and preposterous. Nathan Lane somehow led us through the incoherence.
Brooks is listed as writer-producer of the multi-part Hulu show but has limited screen time as the Orson Welles-like narrator. Among the other perpetrators are Ike Barinholtz, Nick Kroll and Wanda Sykes. Brooks, however, is alarmingly apparent in the first sight gag, his body digitally altered into a youthful, muscle-bound hunk. The implication: Brooks will have a lot of weight to carry around.
All Mel Brooks vehicles guarantee their hit-or-miss comedic rhythm. The story of Jesus Christ begins with a parody ofwith a Larry David-like Judas riffing with the apostle Luke. Inevitably, Jesus feels the need to order up a bacon cheeseburger. Like most Brooks shows over the years, the cast seems impatient for its big “third act,” like the one forcefully delivered this week by Rock. The Big Slap from Will Smith is a home run for Rock.
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