The Producers

On Sunday, May 6, 2007, I saw the movie The Producers. Now, I know that this is an old film, but I didn't get a chance to see this movie in the theatres, so I bought it at a used DVD sale. I didn't get a chance to see it until last night. I suppose I was in the mood after seeing Kirsten Dunst attempting to sing in Spider Man 3.

This movie was hilarious. I usually am not a fan of Will Farell, but I like him in two movies, and only two movies. Stranger Than Fiction, and The Producers. Don't get me wrong, I still don't like Will Farell, but he was okay in this. I thought that he was most hilarious in the former though.

This movie is about a failing Broadway producer (Nathan Lane) who has produced yet another flop. He has hired an accountant to look at his books (Matthew Broderick). Lane askes Broderick to hide an excess $2 000 that he earned in his last flop, so that he wouldn't have to pay the IRS more taxes. And Broderick hypothesized that it would be entirely possible to make more money with a flop than with a hit, since with a flop, which would have both an opening and closing night in the same night, the IRS wouldn't be bothered to audit those books. Thus, the movie was about them trying to pull off this scheme. Of course, during the storyline, they bump into Uma Thurman and Will Farell, who are a love interest/singer in their production and the writer of the Broadway flop.

Make no mistake, this movie is a musical, it has a lot of musical numbers. So, if you're going to see this movie thinking it's just a comedy, well, you'll be disappointed, because there will be lots of singing. Since I went into it thinking that it'll be a musical, with some bits of comedy thrown in, I enjoyed the film very much, since I found that the balance between singing and choreography and humour/dialogue was about equal.

If you get a chance to rent something, or buy something from the discount bin at a video store (by this point, I would imagine that the rental places would have this at a pretty cheap rate - and even at some CD/DVD stores), it would not be a bad idea to add this into your collection. Of course, go with the cheaper of the two options - buying it used or renting it. However, with the prices of rentals nowadays, sometimes, it's just about the same price to buy it used! Of course, we always have stores like Blockbuster, who say that they don't have late fees. And that's true, they do not have a late fee anymore. However, they charge you a re-stocking fee to re-stock the item once you've brought it back late. I suppose this is slightly better, since you only pay the re-stocking fee once (per item?), as opposed to have late fees accumulate on your account. Once the late fees got higher than the value of the DVD, then you just bought the DVD, as there is no point in returning it.