"Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."

She’s one of the few reactors that caught the “life saver” joke.

Oh snap. Are we starting a Mel Brooks run here!?

Screaming kid was a dated Home Alone Kevin McCallister gag

To really understand this movie, you had to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner first. This is a direct spoof of that version of the movie.

"It's good to be the King!" is a line from "History of the World Pt 1",which is also worth a watch!

RIP Richard Lewis, Roger Rees and Dom DeLuise. I guess Robin got the last laugh against his enemies after all..

🎶We're men, men in tights.....YASS!!!🎶 still kills me. 😂😂

The “Godfather” scene with Dom Deluise always kills me!

You MUST watch, "Blazing Saddles", by Mel Brooks. The scene where Dave pumps up his sneakers was ad-libbed. Dave forgot to change his shoes in wardrobe before the scene. While filming he added the joke. Mel liked it and kept it in the movie. ✌️❤️🌹

My sister and I watched this film ALL the time growing up as kids. We quoted it CONSTANTLY. We knew all the script, start to finish. It was STUPID how much we were into this movie as kids 😂🤣😅

“Heyyyy Abbbotttttttt!” - ☠️everytime

It's funny that the guy who played Will Scarlet O'Hara would go on to play Robin Hood himself in a TV series few years later. All in all, I think Roger Rees steals the movie more than anyone else.

😂H&R Blockhead....still makes me laugh like hell

My favorite is Don Giovanni!! Most people don’t get that he’s supposed to be from Jersey, Britain. But he has a New Jersey accent, that’s the joke. Lmao every time!

We're men! We're men in _tiiiiights!_ We roam around the forest lookin' for fights!

You should watch more Mel Brooks movies. Blazing Saddles is a classic!

Fun cameo for Patrick Stewart, in that 2 years prior, he was forced to play Robin Hood (of a sorts) by Q (John de Lancie) in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Qpid, Season 4, Episode 20).

One of the reasons Carey Ewes got the part is because of his close resemblance to Errol Flynn although in my opinion he looks more like Douglas Fairbanks Jr

In the parodied original, "Robin Hood: Prince of thieves", there is a similar scene of king Richard returning for the wedding at the end - played by, not Patrick Stewart, but Sean Connery. Which was also a surprise appearance, uncredited even.

A Mel Brooks movie is ALWAYS a good time. I think Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead And Loving It are underrated among his films, but Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs are genuine comedy classics.

I love that Mel Brooks plays the Rabbi too!

The movie starts out as a spoof of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner, which came out a while before this one was made.

I have seen this movie a million times, but I still laugh like a madman 😂😂 One of my favourite Mel Brooks movies

This was my first Mel Brooks movie, I can still quote most of it

OMG this film takes me back. I never heard my dad laugh so friggin hard when I was a kid than he did with this film. I will ALWAYS remember this as THE FIRST TIME I ever saw Dave Chapelle

Mel Brooks is a Legend for me, especially in Spaceballs.

8:41 The screaming blond boy = "Home Alone" movie.

Haha "d-e-d, dead" I still use that line!

watched this SO many times back in the day, and Little John not being able to swim still cracks me up 😂😂😂

Roger Rees, who portrays the Sheriff of Rottingham, was a phenomenal actor. He had a recurring role on The West Wing as Lord John Marbury for which he chewed the scenery every time. He had about 100 roles in his career so you likely saw him in other things as well. RIP.

Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are two comedy classics that you have to watch.

Patrick Stewart going over the top rolling those R's. Loved it.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights was the first (and currently only) Mel Brooks movie I've ever seen. I didn't quite know what to expect. I ended up loving the movie. The movie is filled with well-timed/executed comedy, great acting, and great fight choreography. It's great. My favorite part of the film, however, is Amy Yasbeck. It'd make sense if you knew me.

WORF: I am _not_ a merry man!

Fun fact: The guy with the daggers is the voice actor of Alan Wake.

The legend had it coming, Addie. (In response to the title of this video) It's no wonder why you couldn't stop laughing from this movie.

I love this movie, I still watch it at least once a year. It was one of my first Mel Brooks’ movies, along with Spaceballs. The joke about speaking with an English accent was a small dig at Kevin Costner who played Robin in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and could not do the accent so he and Christian Slater just stayed American among the full English cast - but it’s actually one of my other favourite childhood movies and worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.

You cut out the best line in the movie! 😭 ”A toll's a toll and a roll's a roll and if we don't get no tolls, then we don't get no rolls"❤

"I didn't know we'd have musical numbers!" Juuuuuuuuuuuuust wait!

This was a very funny film. Mel Brooks. Tracey Ullman. Richard Lewis. And the guy who played Rebecca's rich boyfriend on Cheers.

One of my favorite comedic exchanges of all time: Achoo - Hey, Blinkin Blinkin - Did you just say Abe Lincoln? It's so funny and so unnecessary.

Fun fact: Matthew Porretta (Will Scarlett O'Hara) currently works with Remedy Entertainment as characters in the games Alan Wake (as the eponymous protagonist) and Control (as Dr. Casper Darling and Alan Wake).

I love this movie!! Don't know how many times I've watched it, and I still find new funny bits I've missed before. Cary Elwes rocks as always!

I'm glad this movie still holds up so well. Satires can kind of fade as pop culture changes because no one gets the references, but this just has so much humor you can still have a good time with it regardless.

The screaming peasant kid is a Home Alone reference. He even says "I got to go Home Alone now" before he does the Macaulay Culkin scream and runs off.

Robin Hood is a version of GREEN ARROW OF JUSTICE LEAGUE and I'm watching the movie right now on KZfaq Blessings and HUGS 👑💜

I love how you'll sit down to watch an insane parody/satire film like this with absurd cartoon logic and still express genuine concern over the characters getting hit or hurt! haha

This movie was made right after the Gulf War. The "Patriot Arrow" was a reference to the anti-ballistic Patriot Missiles which were frequently mentioned in news reports back then.

The horse in the balcony scene.. Oh Hell No! 😂

"It's good to be the king" is from "History of the World Part II" also by Mel Brooks.

The 7:09 and 8:38 marks is the kid making fun of Kevin in Home Alone.

"Some other Robin Hoods" who can't speak with an English accent apparently refers to Kevin Costner, who starred in _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ (1991). That's the movie that probably inspired the making of this one.

SO MANY QUOTES!!! I love this movie. It was also my first introduction to Mel Brooks. A funny story though, when I was in college I got requested to play a fanfare for a bride's entry at a wedding of a friend. My dad and I were both trumpet players then and we learned the tune the Sherriff's men use for his entry. To this day, no one has figured that out.😈🤣

Rabbi Tuckman is Mel Brooks, the writer and director of this movie, and all of the "Mel Brooks movies". He always plays at least one role in each of his movies, and sometimes more.

So many of the characters are inspired straight from "Prince of thieves" a very good Robin Hood movie. Indeed, Patrick Stewart is our King!

31:59 poor Little John. Now his name means a bathroom. 34:50 I love how Mel Brooks always teases sequels but hasn’t done a sequel. One of his to check out is “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. It’s his remake of “Blazing Saddles” that he made a few years ago. I love how he made it work for the 21st century.

The mole gag with Prince John is inspired by a gag used in Young Frankenstein where Marty Feldman (who plays Igor) moved around his hump from one side to the other until Gene Wilder (who played Fredrik Frankenstein) noticed.

And just like with your *_Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_* video, I saw this & immediately began chanting: "Addie! Addie! ADDIE!!" *_LOVE_* your reaction vids, Addie.

The sheriff stole every scene he was in.

Mel Brooks first tried his hand at a Robin Hood comedy in the 70s. There was a short-lived tv show called "When Things Were Rotten" (all 15 episodes are on youtube) Dick Van Patten - the guy who conducted the wedding ceremony, aka the abbot, played Friar Tuck on the show. There was a moment on the show where he himself does the "HEY ABBOTT!!!" joke. I didn't realize that the moment in this movie was a call-back. He says "I hate that guy". Of course, it was an Abbott and Costello reference.

This wasn't the first time Mel Brooks did a comedic take on Robin Hood. Prior to this he had a short-lived sitcom on TV called _When Things Were Rotten._ (The theme song is a real hoot.) It had the same sort of zany humor. Elwes provided the voice of the titular character in a totally charming animated film from Studio Ghibli called _The Cat Returns._ I make it a point to rewatch it every year around Thanksgiving. The English dub features an all-star cast.

Patrick Stewart and his deeply exaggerated accent was a direct spoof of Sean O'Connery and his appearance in the Kevin Costner movie. His appearance always cracks me up.

There's a lot of references to two other Robin Hood movies in this version, specifically 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' & the classic 1938 Errol Flynn movie 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'. You really need to see both when you get the chance.

The shadow fight scene is inspired by a much older Robin Hood movie from the 30's or 40's staring Earl Flynn, and the movie took several jabs at Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Kosinar. Mel Brooks references other movies often in his movies and having seen the other movies add greatly to seeing his movies.

The mole moving around is a running joke in many of mel brooks movies. Young Frankenstein it was igors hump. It's one of my favorite jokes in mel brooks movies, also love the "walk this way" joke.

In case you didn't know "Ahh-Sneeze, father of Ahh-Choo" was portrayed by the late, great Issac Hayes. Not only was he one of first black people to get an Academy Award, but he's in both the Songwriter Hall of Fame & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And, he was the voice of Chef on "South Park". He was a grezt man. Not just as an entertainer, but as a human being. You should learn more about him.

13:44 In case you're not aware, that's the title of a film released just one year before this one, starring Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, and Rosie Perez.

Aside from being known for his amazing parodies, Mel Brooks always has great musical numbers in his movies.

Great movie

Proud of ya, for the Star Wars reference!

Amy Yasbeck, the other beautiful redhead on screen, was a supporting character in the hit TV sitcom on NBC in the 90s, "Wings".

Mel Brooks movies always have a musical number in it in honor of his first movie the Producers

Shout out to the late Roger Rees who was at the top of his game as the Sheriff of Rottingham and really stole every scene he was in.

Mickey Rooney, (1920-2014), "Boy's Town". Follow that up with James Stewart, (1908 -1997), "Mr. smith Goes to Washington". Two of my favorite actors.

15:04 - love how the sheriff holds the opposite side of his face that was hit.

“Let’s give him the CHOP!” As someone who lived in Georgia for over a quarter-century, and as a big Atlanta Braves fan, this joke landed very well :D (Yes, I’m aware Florida State did it first)

Robin Hood Men in Tights is apparently a parody of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves Addie. Love and enjoy your KZfaq channel.

While this movie is a EXCELLENT stand alone comedy, it works even better if you where familiar with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as that is the main movie this is spoofing, it also helps for the ending to be familiar with Mel Brooks movies like Blazing Saddles as it was directly referenced and History of the World Part 1 as the "It's Good to be the King" is a call back to that movie.

"A toll is a toll and a roll is a roll, and if we dont get no tolls we don't eat no rolls"

Mel Brooks enjoys writing musical numbers in his movies. Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the world. The only exception I can think of is Silent Movie. 😂 The actor who plays the Executioner is the same one in a similar role in Blazing Saddles. 😮

The Hangman in here was also the Hangman in Blazing Saddles. Same actor playing the same character wearing the same outfit

i love mel brooks movies and 4th wall breaking is my favorite comedy gag, i dont know how after watching this 50 times i never noticed the cardboard standie of the sherrif changes his face after the comment about getting him drunk. his goofy face looked like a normal face, and i didnt get a good look at the before shot because its not that easy to see lol

Besides the blazing saddles reference, he also referenced "History of the world part 1" with the "It's good to be king"....should watch both of those.

She has a Mel Brooks playlist with only this movie in it. So cross your fingers for more!

this is the first dave chapelle movie where he wasn't like "guy at party"

So, this one parodies the two most famous and most successful Robin Hood movies: 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland (as Marian), Basil Rathbone (as Sir Guy of Gisbourne [the Sheriff in this version is a bumbling idiot, Gisbourne is the bigger villain], and Claude Rains (as Prince John), and also 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman (as Azeem, the Moor), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (as Marian), and the late, great Alan Rickman (as the Sheriff of Nottingham, the villain of the movie [this is the first adaptation in a long time that doesn't include Prince John]). There are definitely a lot of elements taken from both movies for this parody. Robin's costume is almost identical to the Errol Flynn version, as are the costumes of the Merry Men and Marian, Robin walking into the banquet with the stag on his shoulders (one of the most iconic scenes from the 1938 film), having all the Merry Men pledge at the tree, and of course the archery contest...all of which were not included in the Costner film. From the Costner film the parody takes the idea that he was a prisoner in Jerusalem during the crusades, staged a breakout, and helped free a prisoner. The sheriff's costume, Marian's very curly and uncovered hair, the witch in the lower levels of the castle, and of course the much remarked upon fact that Kevin Costner TRIED to do an English accent, but he slipped out of it a LOT which only becomes more obvious since he's acting next to the incomparable Morgan Freeman who maintains his accent the whole time. "Prince of Thieves" also had a very famous surprise cameo at the very end for King Richard the Lionheart (I won't spoil it) and Patrick Stewart here is doing a spot-on impression of that particular actor. If you like older films, Adventures of Robin Hood is a great classic movie, and of all the Robin Hood adaptations it was the gold standard for more than 50 years. Prince of Thieves then came along and gave the story a more realistic feel and setting, and it became the second-highest-grossing film of 1991. They dropped some of the iconic scenes from the classic Robin Hood tales (like the archery contest set as a trap to catch Robin) but kept others, and overall I saw it as a high school senior and LOVED it, so I recommend it.

“I gotta go home alone” No one realizes this is a reference to “Home Alone” and that is why the kid is screaming that way.

Now ya gotta watch; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, History of the World: Part 1.

The "godfather" is also the "director/choreographer" in Blazing Saddles

historical anachronism: referring to Picasso centuries before he was born

The "Patriot Arrow" is named after the Patriot missile system that is used for air defense by the United States and many allies. It's a guided missile that can maneuver to hit targets, and that's why this arrow was named after it.

You should definitely watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner.

“Look at this! We’ve gone from Royalty to Recycling!!”

This was mostly a spoof on Kevin Costner's 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', but also of other adaptations. Robin striking a pose is one such reference from older movies. The thing about the 'English accent' is a reference to Kevin Costner's try to speak it as well as the surprise appearance of a big name actor as King Richard in the end.

There are so many callbacks and spoofs to the other Robin Hood movies that you really need to watch them all to really understand all the jokes on them. Great reaction, Addie. Love this channel.

Mel Brooks' famous quote "It's good to be the King" from the movie History of the World!

This movie references both Costner's movie, and Errol Flynn's movie. The latter especially during the shadow play during the climactic sword fight. Stewart is speaking in an obvious Scottish brogue, throwing shade at Sean Connery appearing as Richard in Costner's movie. "It's good to be the king" is a running gag from History of the World Part One. You really should watch Blazing Saddles, one of Brooks' signature movies.

Good reaction Addie. There were a lot of references to the Kevin Costner Robin Hood that you missed, but the movie can be enjoyed even without seeing it. Since you haven't seen Blazing Saddles, I highly recommend it. It's Mel's masterpiece. And since you like musical numbers, a few other Mel Brooks movies you should check out are Young Frankenstein, The Producers, History of the World Part I, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not to Be. Mel was a drummer before he started writing for TV and the movies. Spaceballs is also good, but there aren't any song and dance routines in it.

😆 "A jew? Here ?" The idea that you can take a 1h+ movie and chop it down to 30minutes in uncanny..