The Producers (2005) Critic Reviews

Susan Stroman directed the show on Broadway and what she has done here is photograph that show -- no more, no less. This is good news for anyone who couldn't afford a trip to New York and $100 tickets, but it's a fairly odd approach to cinema.Read the full review

It was fun, it was funny, it was alive.Read the full review

The result is largely a giddy, goofy delight.Read the full review

It's too long to be great and it's too square to be great and it's too loud to be great and it finds homosexual effeminacy too funny to ever be called great, but I can't imagine anyone coming out sadder than they went in.Read the full review

Enough is enough. Somebody should just stop remaking The Producers.Read the full review

So determinedly old-fashioned it makes a strong claim to being the best film musical of 1959.Read the full review

Most of the bits and performances have a hard time making the transition from stage to screen.Read the full review

Stroman should have studied the original Producers that Brooks directed in 1968, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. It answers the question "Where did they go right?"Read the full review

The best two performances belong to Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell. For the film to work, though, the two best roles should belong to Tony-winning Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the title roles.Read the full review