Keep it Happy!

Just watched the musical/movie The Producers (2005) and I love the movie :D So here is a mini review and little surprise at the end.

Story
So mainly the story focuses on two characters, a producer and an accountant who together in order to evade taxes and earn millions at the same time they try and create a musical which will open and close on the same night (in other words it will flop).

Acting and Characters of the movie

Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock; previously I had only seen him on TV, such as in Sex and the City and 30 Rock.  I personally found him absolutely brilliant in this movie and would wish that he appeared in more movies and TV series.

Matthew Broderick as Leo Bloom.  Personally I never was a fan of his, but he really impressed me in this movie.

Will Ferrell as Franz Liebkind.  I'm also not a huge fan of his, but Will Ferrell playing a German pigeon-loving Nazi, you cannot go wrong.  So please Will Ferrell, do more characters like these in your future movies.


Uma Thurman as Ula.  I prefer Uma in more serious roles, but loved her Swedish accent and didn't disappoint at all.

Gary Beach as Roger De Bris.  It's such a pity that he doesn't appear in more movies, he is absolutely incredibly talented especially as a comedienne.  Love his facial expressions. 

Roger Bart as Carmen Ghia.  Loved him as well, he needs to appear in more comedy movies together with Gary Beach they would make a perfect comedic team.

To summarise; the cast was amazing together.

Direction and Location 

The movie was clearly filmed within a studio, but the color palette used was very beautiful and complemented well with the movie's tone/mood.

Soundtrack

Since it is a musical, then over half the movie consists of songs, which I absolutely loved.  They were catchy, not boring and absolutely funny.  Pity not all musicals have such a funny soundtrack.

Who should watch this?

I suggest that it is suitable for at least those over 13/15 years of age, there is some adult content but not too much.  And some of the comedy will only be understood by adults and personally I suggest that if you get the DVD put on the subtitles to follow the story better as in my musical movies when it comes to singing I don't always understand everything and would sometimes have to rewind a bit.

Conclusion

If you love musicals and love comedy and love Mel Brookes than this is the movie for you. I would rate it 4.5/5 as I would definitely watch it again and again and apart from the fact that I cannot stop thinking about it and how fun it was.  And as promised here is a video of one of my favourite scenes.  Keep it Happy everyone!

Unfortunately the video doesn't allow embedding and so here is the link, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAbM3QHvjw&feature=related