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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks? Read more
Don Druker, Chicago Reader: More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film. Read more
John H. Dorr, Hollywood Reporter: It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes. Read more
Pauline Kael, New Yorker: Wilder's hysteria seems perfectly natural. You never question what's driving him to it; his fits are lucid and total. They take him into a different dimension -- he delivers what Harpo promised. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless. Read more