Not the absolute greatest Mel Brooks comedy, but still Brooks in his prime. It’s a comedy (almost) completely without dialogue, an homage to the silent film era in the way Young Frankenstein saluted horror movies and Blazing Saddles sent up the western. “Brooks has taken a considerably stylistic risk and pulled it off triumphantly,” wrote Roger Ebert in his four-star review. “Silent Movie is not only funny, it’s fun. It’s clear at almost every moment that the filmmakers had a ball making it.”