Gene Wilder after appearing in such Mel Brooks films as The Producers, Blazing
Saddles, and Young Frankenstein took all he learned from Brooks and with a few
of his own touches made The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.
Along with him are Brooks veterans Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman playing
client and sidekick.
Not being able to get the services of the great Holmes himself, Madeline Kahn goes to Wilder who is Sigerson Holmes and he's got one real bad inferiority complex and a streak of jealousy regarding Sherlock. God only knows what he feels toward brother Mycroft.
Getting a coherent story out of Kahn is hard enough, she changes it more often than Wilder does his underwear. Still his libido which Sherlock keeps firmly in check keeps him working for her to obtain a purloined document in the hands now of continental adventurer Dom DeLuise.
But also wanting the document which like those infamous 'papers' in the Road To Rio is our resident Holmesian villain Professor Moriarty played with relish by Leo McKern.
Director Wilder allowed all his cast members to do their thing. Kahn and DeLuise also really serve up a lot of pork product to the audience, they have their moments to shine. My favorite though is Marty Feldman as the Scotland Yard man who the Yard keeps in the record room. He wants so bad to prove himself and he latches on to Wilder to do it.
Best two moments are Wilder, Kahn, and Feldman doing the latest dance the Kangaroo hop. And Wilder and Feldman doing what I call the tush waltz.
Want to know what the tush waltz is? Watch the film and find out.
Not being able to get the services of the great Holmes himself, Madeline Kahn goes to Wilder who is Sigerson Holmes and he's got one real bad inferiority complex and a streak of jealousy regarding Sherlock. God only knows what he feels toward brother Mycroft.
Getting a coherent story out of Kahn is hard enough, she changes it more often than Wilder does his underwear. Still his libido which Sherlock keeps firmly in check keeps him working for her to obtain a purloined document in the hands now of continental adventurer Dom DeLuise.
But also wanting the document which like those infamous 'papers' in the Road To Rio is our resident Holmesian villain Professor Moriarty played with relish by Leo McKern.
Director Wilder allowed all his cast members to do their thing. Kahn and DeLuise also really serve up a lot of pork product to the audience, they have their moments to shine. My favorite though is Marty Feldman as the Scotland Yard man who the Yard keeps in the record room. He wants so bad to prove himself and he latches on to Wilder to do it.
Best two moments are Wilder, Kahn, and Feldman doing the latest dance the Kangaroo hop. And Wilder and Feldman doing what I call the tush waltz.
Want to know what the tush waltz is? Watch the film and find out.