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Christine Dolen, Miami Herald: There's a song in the stage musical version of 'The Producers' that, if you flipped the title to pose the opposite question, could summarize the letdown diehard fans will feel if they catch the new movie of Mel Brooks' gloriously retro Broadway smash. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ... an unabashedly old-fashioned musical filled with song, dance, and shtick so shticky you could hang wallpaper with it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Very little of the stage show's fizziness has found its way into a strangely pallid-looking picture. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [It's] a little jarring at first on film because it's so big and so broad and so over the top -- but I like that. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's not all it was on stage and it's not all it could be on film. The result is a often jolly, highly-polished compromise, which can't be what anyone intended. Or wanted. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: [T]he most recent Producers is a clone of a clone, and what it adds in song and dance it loses in brevity and, as is so often the case, wit. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Not so much a film as an awkwardly framed souvenir of the Broadway hit musical, The Producers needs a live audience like a candle needs oxygen. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: As creaky as the traditional musicals it once poked fun at, The Producers has been entombed -- lox, shtick and two smoking bagels -- as a theatrical fossil, and reinforces the danger in returning to the same material one time too many. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: ... a kitschy celebration of all things Mel. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: This isn't a movie. It's a Broadway musical captured on film. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Stroman keeps things lively, and Lane, in particular, comes into his own. He mugs too much for my taste but then again, The Producers isn't exactly subtle. It wouldn't be The Producers if it were. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It may not be great, but it is a movie. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: In theory, what's not to like? In reality, the whole schmear. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: There are bad movies, there are terrible, misguided mistakes and there are unbearable and embarrassing ordeals. The Producers: The Movie Musical is all of those. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Ms. Stroman's efforts to open up the play lack imagination, and all the musical numbers probably worked better on stage. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: It may be that as audiences queue up for this latest incarnation of Brooks' undying brainchild - - not unlike the patrons who turn back to their seats, mid-exit, during the opening-night performance of Springtime for Hitler - - the joke is on them. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Brooks and Stroman have taken a classic and flattened it into just the sort of glib, tired-businessman's musical adaptation that Max Bialystock once built his sagging reputation on. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The picture is so garish and creatively lazy at times, it almost becomes the very sort of vapid spectacle it parodies. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Gary Beach have their singing, dancing and kvetching in the Broadway smash The Producers immortalized on film. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Producers is a movie based on a play based on a movie about a play. And that's probably the funniest thing about it. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The new movie is a success, that I know. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. Someone who has seen the original once or twice, or never, would be a better judge. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The stage performances haven't been scaled down: Everything is pitched to the second balcony. And Mel Brooks' material -- especially the retro queeny stereotypes -- is excruciatingly dated. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If this film were any funnier, the world would explode. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: First-time film director Susan Stroman has been painfully faithful in bringing her multi-Tony-winning Broadway musical to the big screen, at full volume and as theatrical as ever. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The stage show veterans have done these roles so many times, they're more than second nature, and also a little stale. Read more
TIME Magazine: A good time is had by all, and the spirit is infectious. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: This is extraneous for anyone who's seen the original film or show, presumably leaving everyone else to wonder what all the fuss has been about. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Enough is enough. Somebody should just stop remaking The Producers. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: With hundreds of performances in New York and London under their belts, Lane and Broderick have their characterizations down cold. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: There's no business like show business, and the musical Producers' considerable success showed the original movie to have been prophetic -- of itself. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: So how good is the movie of the musical of the movie? The answer is: It's pretty good. Read more