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	The Producers Movie Review (2005) from Channel 4 Film
		Susan Stroman's 2005 film is not a direct remake of its movie predecessor, which starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
		Rather, it's a film version of the 2001 Broadway hit, complete with the musical numbers that saw the show showered with a record 12 Tony awards.
		Leafing through his client's books, Bloom ponders that a producer might stand to make more money if he delivered a flop than a hit (assuming he grossly inflates the cost of the show in the first place).
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=153589 (305 words)

	Producers, The (2005): Reviews
		The new film is a nauseatingly unsteady medley of brilliance and foolish nonsense.
		The film falls short even as a record of Broderick and Lane's crowd-pleasing rapport: Both have done the show so many times that every scrap of life is gone.
		The Producers is nightmarish, in its febrile way, a head-bangingly primitive version of an overrated Broadway show that grew out of a clumsy 1968 movie with an inflated reputation.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/producers2005 (1579 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Producers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yet more astounding is the absence of its trademark rambunctious rhythm, a facet so blatantly underserved that the film cries out for a vivacious, go-for-broke stylist like Julie Taymor or even (dare I say it?) Rob Marshall, either of whom might have infused the action with some much-needed zany dynamism.
		And given the persistent structural inertia, it's hardly surprising to discover that the film's finest sequence turns out to be the wholly stage-bound "Springtime For Hitler," which erupts with absurdly giddy pageantry.
		Time and again, however, The Producers botches its transition from the boards to the multiplex, whether it be by excising Bialystock's opening ditty "King Of Broadway" (crucial for establishing the character's inherent shadiness) or by attempting to generate madcap energy by dialing the volume up to 11.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1955 (392 words)

	The Producers (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Producers is a 2005 film based on the 2001 Broadway musical of the same name, which is in turn based on the 1968 movie starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Andréas Voutsinas.
		The film received a limited release in the United States on December 16, 2005; the film expanded to over 600 theaters on December 25, 2005.
		A verse of "I Wanna Be a Producer" is excised from the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Producers_(2005_film) (1773 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - The Producers (2005)
		Quite the contrary, "The Producers" is an absolute train wreck of a movie, and has arrived on the scene at the most inopportune time.
		The two actors new to the world of "The Producers" are Uma Thurman (2005's "Prime"), having fun with a one-note character as Ulla, and Will Ferrell (2005's "Bewitched"), as Nazi playwright Franz Liebkin.
		The cinematography by John Bailey (2005's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants") and Charles Minsky (2004's "Raising Helen") is unoriginal when it comes to shooting the song-and-dance numbers, but does hold a certain nostalgic attractiveness in its aesthetic mimicry of a Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly musical.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/p/05_producers.htm (824 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Producers' puts Broadway on film - Dec 16, 2005
		Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that the original film "The Producers," written and directed by Mel Brooks in 1968, moved to Broadway in 2001 as a musical and won a record 12 Tony Awards.
		Susan Stroman is making her film debut as a director by returning this movie to the big screen, but this time out it's based on the Broadway musical she directed with such success.
		Shot at the new state-of-the-art film facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Stroman has stayed so close to her Broadway version she might as well have dragged the proscenium arch along with her across the Brooklyn Bridge.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/16/review.producers/index.html (734 words)

	The Producers (2005)
		While it was almost impossible to capture the lightening in a bottle that was the 1968 version the 2005 remake holds its own, especially if you look at as an entry in a completely different genre.
		Of course that would require a dishonest producer, a moral dilemma that is not an issue for the shady Bailystock.
		They are not only in the shadow of the original film but had to meet the expectations of those that have seen the stage play.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /the_producers_(2005).htm (1186 words)

	The Hot Button: December 9, 2005
		The classic example of this in the movie is "Along Came Bialy," which involves a dozen or so "little old ladies" dancing with their walkers in unison on stage and in the movie involves dozens.
		When Brooks made the original film in 1968, TV directors were moving up in Hollywood and shooting small films like they were live TV was not terribly unusual.
		And the answer was that she did a decent job, but no, it doesn't have the power on film that it does on stage.
	www.thehotbutton.com /today/hot.button/2005_thb/051209_thu.html (1158 words)

	THE PRODUCERS (2005) - WIDESCREEN DVD
		But let's give the film the benefit of a doubt that it's self-aware rather than the product of an octogenarian's sense of humour (an octogenarian who, for his handful of masterpieces (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety) has seldom had as his strength, shall we say, "currency").
		Lastly, in iris'ing in on just one set-piece, "Analysis of a Scene: I Wanna Be a Producer" (16 mins.) manages to paint a more detailed picture of the production than a standard EPK would.
		Tellingly, Stroman is caught off-guard by the versatility of camera cranes--she's really out of her element on a film set.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/producers2005.htm (699 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - The Producers
		In Mel Brooks' 1968 film, Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant Leo Bloom (here played by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick) dream up a plan to cheat their investors out of millions by producing a guaranteed flop.
		Where recent musical movies like Chicago have used the whole palette of cinematic tricks to tell their stories, Stroman's film does little more than point a camera at the stage show and let everyone get on with it.
		See what films are opening in the UK next year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2005/12/12/the_producers_2005_review.shtml (363 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Producers [1967]: Video: Zero Mostel,Gene Wilder,Dick Shawn,Kenneth Mars,Renee Taylor,Mel Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.
		This Mel Brooks film is hillarious and good sprited fun, I bought this as the Production is going to open in the Westend and I wanted to see the original body of work before I commited to go and see the musical version.
		This has to be one of the funniest films of the 20th Century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Producers-Zero-Mostel/dp/B00004CJSB (1112 words)

	The Producers (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Just to ice the deal they hire a director who speaks fluent gibberish and is accompanied by a shrieking ponce of an assistant and before you can say Fahrfugnugen they’ve got a major hit on their hands, which may well land the two of them in the poky.
		It was also obvious that all of the decent laughs came from lines out of the original film.
		She directs the film as if the camera is an effrontery and should only be used sparingly.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/the-producers.php (774 words)

	The Producers
		The Producers is a great outing for the family, if everyone is over the age of 13.
		The Producers might work okay on stage but it collapses the second the same material and songs get in front of a camera.
		The Producers is such a blast you have to wonder how great it could have been with a director who knew what to do with a movie camera.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/producers_the_movie_musical (1031 words)

	The Producers (2005) - Movie Review
		I can't speak about what Stroman's contributions to the film vs. the stage play are, or how Brooks' new film script diverged from the musical, or whether Brooks might have browbeaten Stroman into making stupid rookie mistakes on her first movie, just like Brooks has been doing for the last 20 years.
		But I can say that the 2005 version of The Producers is a tragically unfunny mess that will tarnish forever my memory of one of cinema's best films.
		It's one of the few times in the film I found myself laughing out loud (and if you're a true fan of the original film and know its backstory in depth, you'll appreciate Brooks' cameo during this sequence).
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/theproducers2005 (874 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Producers (2005) (Widescreen): DVD: Susan Stroman,Gary Beach,Matthew Broderick,David Huddleston,Nicole ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The original Producers remains to this day a bad-taste masterpiece largely because Brooks understands that the average audience embraces tastelessness when it is presented as camp -- as a highly stylized flamboyant excess.
		The new film's tone establishes right from the opening number that "camp" is the only tone the film is interested in.
		After the credits finish, cast members from the film (including a cameo by Mel Brooks) sing the number "Goodbye!", which is sung in the stage version at the conclusion of the curtain call.
	www.amazon.ca /Producers-Widescreen-Susan-Stroman/dp/B000EWBKMG (1294 words)

	The Producers (2005) » Badmouth
		He and Lane bring energy to the parts they had during the Broadway run of The Producers, but on film, particularly, the comparison to the original film is unavoidable.
		The film is so well-known and so clearly its own peculiar flavor that little need be said about it.
		The American remake of the second “Grudge” film fails as a story and as a horror flick.
	www.badmouth.net /the-producers-2005 (1244 words)

	The Producers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Producers (1968 film), starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
		The Producers (musical), a Broadway musical based on the film, dating from 2001.
		The Producers (2005 film), a film adapted from the Broadway adaptation, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Producers (145 words)

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	www.efp-online.com /cms/press/en/overview.php (903 words)

	The Producers Film Review - Time Out Film
		Now we get the film of the show of the film, except it’s not really much of a movie, more like a recording of the stage version.
		Theatre director Susan Stroman clearly has little idea how to shape comedy and music for the screen, so she just plonks the camera down and lets the show roll on, allowing the Broadway cast of flamboyant impresario Nathan Lane and ambitious bean-counter Matthew Broderick to play it to the back of the gallery.
		Of course, the gags are indestructible to a degree, and ‘Springtime For Hitler’ remains a kitsch show-stopper, but 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.
	www.timeout.com /film/82999.html (373 words)

	The Producers (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his dreamer of an accountant set out to make $2 million by producing a Broadway flop.
		This musical adaptation of Mel Brooks' Broadway adaptation of his own 1968 film is funny but not consistently funny.
		Susan Stroman directs this musical like I've wanted a musical film to be directed, but does it with a Broadway show that doesn't allow her to use the technique to its fullest.
	www.thefilmchair.com /reviews/producers05.html (114 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Producers (2005)
		When "The Producers" premiered on Broadway in 2001, people raved about how great Lane and Broderick were in their roles.
		The Producers is a fantastic recreation of the sublime Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
		The Producers is hereby found guilty of impersonating an independent film of a high school musical.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/producers2005.php (1923 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Oversexed octogenarians, queeny homosexuals, and obsessed Nazis all outrageously figured in Mel Brooks’ inspired 1968 comedy The Producers, a film that walked the fine line between the offensive and the funny with riotous effect.
		In the film version of the smash Broadway musical based on Brooks’ comic chestnut, however, the same material has little shock value by today’s standards — it’s decidedly tame, almost to the point of being quaint.
		As the unscrupulous producer Max Bialystock, Lane frantically pulls out the stops in his character’s quest to stage the worst show in Broadway history and become a millionaire in the process.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:320941 (549 words)

	NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - News Archives
		April 1, 2005 New York City is proud to welcome the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival, taking place from April 19-May 1, 2005.
		April 1, 2005 The “Made in NY” production Mad Hot Ballroom, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in January, has been purchased by Paramount Classics and will release this May. The film tells the story of a diverse group of eleven year old New York City children learning about life and ballroom dancing.
		March 1, 2005 The Squid and the Whale was honored with the Dramatic Directing Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance film festival, and we now hear that the "Made in NY" production has been purchased by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment!
	www.nyc.gov /html/film/html/news/archives200504.shtml (491 words)

	Amazon.com: The Producers (2005 Movie Soundtrack): Music: Various Artists,Matthew Broderick,Nathan Lane,Mel Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As Mel Brooks's The Producers returns to the big screen where it began, this soundtrack completes a trilogy of sorts that also includes the original 1968 movie soundtrack and the 2001 original cast recording.
		I am always enthused about a producer who likes to make you jump into the music, particularly if the music is worth jumping into.
		The film soundtrack, on the other hand, has an enormous benefit: it comes AFTER the cast members have played these parts and honed their connections with the songs over hundreds of performances.
	www.amazon.com /Producers-2005-Movie-Soundtrack/dp/B000BJS4TE (1973 words)

	Movie Review for The Producers (2005)
		The Producers, the film remake of the play based on the 1968 Mel Brooks classic, contains six dick jokes and six good laughs.
		Before seeing the film, and holding tight to my memories of the original, I had reservations about the casting of two of the characters.
		This is not the Mel Brooks of the original Producers, Young Frankenstein, or Blazing Saddles.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=1279 (908 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Producers [2005]: DVD: Nathan Lane,Matthew Broderick,Uma Thurman,Will Ferrell,Andrea Martin,Gary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The film-of-the-musical-of-the-film, The Producers unites the hit Broadway pairing of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, drafts in Uma Thurman, and somewhere along the way loses half the fun that made the original movie and the Broadway show such a success.
		The Producers has Broadway producer Max Bialystock and bored accountant Leopold Bloom team up to make millions by putting on the worst show the world has ever seen but things inevitably go wrong.
		The 'Hitler ' in the original film is an acid casualty called LSD who makes a lot of comments which might have been amusing in 1968 but which seem dated and bizarre now, rather then funny.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Producers-Nathan-Lane/dp/B000E994AO (1554 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Producers (2005), Susan Stroman, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, dvd review
		Taking Mel Brooks' 1968 film and turning it into a huge Broadway success made perfect sense.
		After all, it was set in the world of Broadway, telling the crazy tale of two producers who raise a bundle of money for a sure-fire flop, hoping it will close in one night so that they can keep the extra cash.
		She simply films the bland musical numbers head-on, like a proud parent pointing an unflinching video camera at a child's Nativity play.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/producersr.shtml (629 words)

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