REVIEW: Hulu’s eight-part series arrives only 42 years after Brooks’ original film and features some top-notch comics sending up history.
movie, even if “It’s good to be the king” is one of the more enduring lines he ever wrote. It is, however, by far the most in need of a sequel. After all, it’s been 42 years since Brooks concluded the film with teasers for, which was to include the sketches “Hitler on Ice,” “A Viking Funeral,” and, most memorably, “Jews in Space.”are stone-cold classics, but they didn’t promise sequels that they never delivered.
Well, we’re now in the era where no title is too old or obscure to demand a reboot or revival. So even though Brooks is now 96 years old, and has largely confined his output to voice-acting roles for nearly two decades,I am embargoed from revealing whether the new version finally gives us full-length versions of “Hitler on Ice” or “Jews in Space.” What I can say is that the Hulu show feels largely faithful to the spirit of the movie, for good and for ill.
Where most Brooks films attempted to create something resembling a plot on which to hang the various jokes about farts, erections, and Frankenstein’s monster singing “Putting on the Ritz,”was simply a collection of sketches set during famous moments throughout human history. And, like most sketch comedy movies and shows, it was wildly uneven. The musical number about the Spanish Inquisition is one of the most inspired things in any filmed comedy, let alone in the Brooks catalog.
The streaming version similarly yo-yos in quality from bit to bit. Some are wildly funny, while others will leave you wondering how they got approved at all, let alone why they keep coming back from one episode to the next. And even within those, there can be unexpected bursts of hilarity. One of the more prominent ongoing bits features
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