FIRST TIME WATCHING: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) REACTION (Movie Commentary)

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[@drigerdranzer7514]

You missed the end scene after the credits where Robin shall unlock the Everlast. That scene is hilarious. 🤣😂

[@Barronvoncrash]

CALL THE LOCKSMITH.

[@DarkClaw0912]

the "I have a mole?" joke is a reference to Young Frankenstein. Igor is asked about his hump at one point and his reply is, "What hump?"

[@flubber1557]

Love this movie. Mel brooks was a genius. P.s: the joke when they said "merry men" with a certain implication is due to that gay used to be a term for being happy.

[@ZeroOskul]

15:04 Dom DeLuise you'll recall played the director of *The French Mistake* in *Blazing Saddles* from the bit where the movie started to overtake the wole studio. In *Spaceballs* he was Pizza the Hutt.

[@KrystalAnn0688]

Me & my boyfriend will sometimes just look at each other & outta the blue go “Your name is Mervin?” never not funny 😂 “ I’m so happy” gets used a lot too

[@EXPATXPLORER]

Only a few people know about this movie. It doesn’t have that big of a fan base, but I still loved it

[@leoxfury]

Blinkin and Achoo are my favourite. Specially Blinkin, the jokes Mel Brooks wrote for him ar so hilarious. HEY BLINKIN Did you just said Abe Lincoln? It kills me everytime. That and the tower scene: "I'm... guessing?" - I just can't not laugh at this! impossible!

[@jennthabombdiggity]

Same!! Blinkin is the best! When he’s fighting the wooden pole 🤣🤣🤣

[@kathyg1660]

"You lost your arms in battle! Oh how terrible! (pat pat) but you grew some nice boobs..."

[@jeanine6328]

Going off the intro, you might not realize Dave Chapelle is in this one. That’s always my favorite surprise for people. He’s awesome in this, little voice of reason crossing the stream. Lmao

[@jwn411]

There is also the dad from the show Good Luck Charlie as well as the dad from Wizards of Waverly Place

[@MrTommygunz420]

Okay now you just need to watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (that's the version of Robin Hood it's directly parodying. Cary Elwes is Kevin Costner and Issac Hayes/Dave Chappelle is one character played by Morgan Freeman in the serious version of it. It's worth putting on the polls if nothing else.)

[@chelliebean5773]

Thank you for this, the jokes are even more funny when they have a point of reference (lol). Same with Young Frankenstein

[@MagicianNoriginal]

But also, after Titanic we discovered Caped loves a bit of romance in a film. It also has the obligatory '90s romantic theme song, by Bryan Adams in this film. Would love to see this review! Plus Alan Rickman gave a stellar performance. Worth watching just for that.

[@ZeroOskul]

2:48 the original ancient Robin Hood ballads were written in a style that is reminiscent of hip hop. I have not read them all but this is my favorite scene from any, from *Robin Hood and the Peddlers* (Read it like it's old school) *No sooner, in haste, did Robin Hood taste* *The balsame he had taken,* (Ta'En) *Than he 'gan to spew, and up he threw* *The balsame all again.* *And Scarlet, and John, who were looking on* *Their master as he did lie,* *Had their faces besmeared, both eyes and beards,* *Therewith most piteously.* (Piteous Lie) Robin drank medicine and immediately projectile-vomited in the faces of Will Scarlet and Little John. *Hey, nani-nani and a ho-ho-ho!*

[@elizabitty213]

Love that! Yes I was just playing the Viking video game and they were talking about learning the skill of flyting (think I spelled that right lol) which is like a rap battle!

[@keithmays8076]

​@@elizabitty213 The original "yo mama" burns. And Loki was the best at flyting.

[@elizabitty213]

@@keithmays8076 oh wow so cool thank you!!

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

@@elizabitty213 It's the origin of rap battles. Flyting was a thing a millenium ago, brought to Britain by viking settlers, survived there for centuries and was a cultural thing brought over to the colonies, where it lives today through rap culture.

[@elizabitty213]

@@shoujahatsumetsu wow so awesome!

[@CaptainNeatoman2007]

I don't see a reaction on your channel to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner. Have you seen it? It came out a year earlier and almost everything in Men in Tights is a direct parody of Prince of Thieves. The flaming arrows in the credits, the sheriff having a witch in the tower, the reference to other Robin Hoods who can't do the accent. Everything.

[@nrkgalt]

You may want to see a basketball movie from around this time called “White Men Can’t Jump.” It starred Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.

[@jennthabombdiggity]

“Your mothers an astronaut!” 😂😂😂 great movie!

[@cptnsinstar3577]

I wonder if he watched Robin Hood, played by Kevin Costner. A lot of the jokes will make sense because of that movie, lol.

[@lilyandrose8557]

I love Errol Flynn version, he did all his own stunts. It wasn't a parody, but had humour, dramatic entrances, romance, fighting scenes and a happy ending: something for everyone!

[@TheEbonyMystique]

I love this movie. But the fact that I know all the movie references means I can no longer pass as 27. Lol

[@balansboy]

Can never go wrong with Mel Brooks

[@anthonyflinn3305]

I think it's funny you said that you were amazed that Sir Patrick Stewart could do a Scottish accent I mean he may not be Scottish but he is from Yorkshire which is close to the Scottish borders plus of actor of his caliber can pull off probably any accent he tries

[@MrTommygunz420]

I'd love to hear him try rastafarian😂

[@anthonyflinn3305]

If any old British guy can do it it would definitely be him... LOL

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

@@anthonyflinn3305 Or Gary Oldman

[@Raven5150]

The actor that played will scarlet went on to play robin Hood in a tv series on one of the Turner channels

[@josephwatts8147]

I think it’s tameness was a product of the 90’s. And that is definitely, super early Chappelle and I think the writers didn’t know how to use him yet.

[@midnighttoker9268]

What about the 90's was tame? The 90's was the era of extreme. That is when shows like Beavis and Butthead were on top. This was just meant to be more family friendly.

[@captin3149]

@@midnighttoker9268 Like everything else, what was extreme at the time is super tame today. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I remember a lot of things that I wasn't allowed to watch back then, but now they're 'classics'

[@midnighttoker9268]

@@captin3149 Nah. Other way around. Most of the shows and movies from the 80's and 90's could never be made today, everyone would be offended and it would be immediately canceled. Including and especially Mel Brooks movies. The only things that are more 'allowed' today is anything and everything sexual, that is just so long as no one calls it misogynisitic or homophobic or transphobic or whatever. Do you really think Blazing saddles would fly today? How about Married with Children. Not a chance, even movies from the early 2000's are considered 'problematic' now. How about Tropic Thunder... There has never been a more censored time in my lifetime than right now...

[@Muck006]

It is a question of THE SUBJECT ... you can make edgy stuff in a western with racism, you can make edgy stuff with Nazis ... but Robin Hood doesnt have that and they went pretty far with the sexual innuendo.

[@MuffinHunterX]

If pressed my mom would probably have a hard time telling you if this or Blazing Saddles was her favorite Mel Brooks movie. For me it's a fourway tie with these, Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein.

[@drigerdranzer7514]

Same with me, and Silent movie. Too bad no reactors have picked up on that one with all the stars in it playing themselves.

[@shaitanlavey]

Don't sleep on Mark Blankfield (Blinkin). Check out his movie Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982). Also - Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson and Helen Mirren in Excalibur (1981).

[@runrickyrun157]

The underwear made the noise because she said that she was wearing nothing under and he tried to go in--BOINK!

[@KrystalAnn0688]

Another great underrated Cary Elwes film is The Crush, a thriller also starring a young Alicia Silverstone in her debut role

[@radiofreeastrocast3010]

Quick facts: The original Maid Marrion was black. And I'm glad ya saw princess bride, because it was one of the best sword fight put on film!

[@boboboy8189]

there's no black people in 14 centuries England, heck there's not even half of the character in original poem. only 3 character were exist in that peom.

[@nathanlindahl8336]

Nice try lmao That's 100% not true. You think there were black people in England in the 1400's?

[@runrickyrun157]

This video made me feel old. I really enjoy your videos, but this is the first time it hit me how so many of the jokes are just part of the times. When the white kid yelled "AHHHH!" at the beginning, that was a take on Home Alone. That scene when Kevin puts after shave and screams was iconic at the time. The pump sneakers had just come out 3 years before that. That scene is no different than making a joke about getting Yeezys (before last year).

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

So glad to see your getting sponors! This was such a hilarious movie.

[@PheOfTheFae]

Most reactors watch this movie without watching the Kevin Costner/Morgan Freeman/Alan Rickman movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves first, and it's literally half the references in this one. There are also a couple of references to an old Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie from the 30s, but the vast majority of reference jokes are to the Kevin Costner one. Maybe that's why you're feeling this one is a bit tamer, because half of it is a straight send up of the other movie.

[@chiefsteps-in-poo8447]

King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is. I mean don't you know, it is illegal to kill a wild pig in the king's forest? Love that line.

[@RareHarmony]

Funny how the actor playing Robin looks exactly like Wesley from Princess Bride, and Jerry from Liar Liar. Amazing coincidence.

[@psycho42069]

All them guys always remind me of the "evil corporate" stormchaser in Twister and Dr. Gordon in Saw! Crazy!

[@totomomo18]

Great movie . Too bad you did not see Kevin Costner Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves 1991 before seeing this because this movie spoof that movie. You are going to miss allot of jokes. Other great Mel Brookes comedy is High Anxiety (but you should watch classic Hitchcock movies like Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds). You should continue other spoof movie like Top Secret , The Naked Gun Trilogy , Hot Shots , Loaded Weapon, Wayne's World , Austin Powers. Fyi the child is running like Kevin in Home Alone. Also "It's Good to be the King" is a phrase from another Mel Brooks spoof. My favorite part of this movie is "I heard that coming a mile away :) Right-o, Blinkin, very good. Pardon? Who's talking?

[@jamesalexander5623]

Most of the jokes are taken from "The Adventures of Robin Hood" 1938 Technicolor Film starring Errol Flynn!

[@totomomo18]

@@jamesalexander5623 No most of the plot of the movie is a mirror to the plot of Kevin Costner Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves 1991. Altough there are some scenes which pay homage to the old Robin Hood movie with Errol Flynn. It is just like Mel Brooks Spaceballs which mostly spoof the original Star Wars trilogy but also have allot of scenes that spoof other things like Star Trek, Alien and The old Planet Of The Ape.

[@CaptainNeatoman2007]

​@James Alexander toto is right. The tights, Robin crashing the feast, and a few other things come from Errol Flynn's version, but the entire plot structure come from Prince of Thieves a year earlier. That's why they open with the flaming arrows, then Robin escaping captivity with a muslim friend, the witch in the tower, etc

[@reneeg9406]

" are you serious?" 😂 this is Mel Brooks. Did you expect anything serious?

[@Jsspres]

Behind the Scenes kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2Krm3SneJZ1r6s Also, this is Dave Chappelle's first movie. And the hangman is the same actor from Blazing Saddles. But keep watching Mel Brooks movies and you be entertained.

[@Zodia195]

Cary Elwes said that when Mel Brooks called him to ask to be Robin Hood, he immediately hung up, thinking it was a prank call lol. He did get the role after Mel convinced him he was the real deal. I know someone mentioned this movie heavily parodies Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but the movie also references The Many Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, like Robin and his Merry men did wear tights. Also you do have the archery contest and that feast Robin Crashes happens in the Errol Flynn movie too since Robin brings a dear I think. The famous 'final fight scene' has another reference where the 'shadow fighting' mimics between the final fight between Robin and his main nemesis in the movie because you eventually see only their shadows fighting briefly.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

This is off topic for this movie, but I just found your channel and watched a bunch of reactions back to back. Since you seem to like psychological thrillers and dramas. You should watch and react to a movie that no one seems to do. "Arlington Road", stars Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins and also Joan Cusack. I think you would like it. Good job on the reactions 👍.

[@canadianscratcher7834]

@3:48 that's Isaac Hayes.

[@EMERALDPMD]

I loved this movie, so funny 😆

[@DarkClaw0912]

That's the same Hangman from Blazing Saddles.

[@tomaskennedy]

21:26 Is that the same executioner from Blazing Saddles?

[@RatelRegalement]

yup :>

[@musicstar693]

Yo my brother caped informer if u wanna c sword fighting. Check out the mark of Zorro. Tyrone power and basil rathbone literally knew how to sword fight in real life That's the #1 best sword fight ever 1940 mark of zorro

[@paulklenknyc]

Yay! Can’t wait to watch!

[@coccolinasvedese]

My favorite Mel Brooks is Spaceballs and Silent Movie I still haven't seen anyone do a reaction to Silent Movie... Would love to se you do that!!

[@coccolinasvedese]

Oooh and The Producers!! Both the newer one from 2005 and the old one from 1967!!

[@feldegast]

Great movie and reaction but you missed the in-credit scene 'call the locksmith!'...

[@DicnballzBitch]

Want your mind truly blown re-watch the wiz or just watch the wiz (black wizard of Oz) but this time analyze the acting

[@pamelalee1508]

For more absurdity..lol...check out.. 💥...Black Knight...Martin Lawrence... Not a Mel Brooks film..not really sure who did it..but funny...👍😉... Good to see you...🌿🌿🌿

[@jayfeelx7519]

Classic

[@chadhapps4805]

Bro you have to check out spaceballs one of Mel Brooks best

[@AceCorban]

Chappelle found his groove pretty quickly. He is much better in Half Baked.

[@nash_355]

Yo whenever it is ur reacting to another war film i highly suggest you either react to oba last samurai or the great raid. You should check those out, best ww2 films in my opinion. Thin red line is another and enemy at the gates also real good.

[@mathewnavarro1152]

The Schwartz was strong with this film.

[@Muck006]

The "shock factor" from Blazing Saddles comes from the parodied RACISM ... which DOESNT APPLY TO THE ROBIN HOOD SETTING. Calling the jokes "tame" is really not correct IMO, because Spaceballs didnt have any offensive jokes either. The point is ... THE SETTING IS THE DECIDING FACTOR ... so you can make offensive jokes about racism in Blazing Saddles and do some edgy stuff in the Producers, but Robin Hood or Star Wars? Nah.

[@RichieReg]

Great movie! It's hilarious

[@boqndimitrov8693]

bad news told in a good way? only mel brooks could come up with that!!

[@erics5810]

11 year old me flashback

[@MikeHunt90731]

Please do a reaction for High Anxiety 1977!

[@TheKayaklover]

I'd love for you to watch Ridley Scott's --- ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD --- Based on a true story.

[@5stardave]

"Blazing Saddles" is rated R, this one is PG-13.

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@williamsmith5340]

🤣🤣🤣

[@smokeyverton7981]

All I hear is Chef

[@LuisGarcia-vi5pc]

Watch men of honor

[@lindy1642]

Times were starting to require more political correctness by this one . All bets were off for the early ones

[@PerfectHandProductions]

Used to be shithouse.

[@supdawg2559]

Carey Elwes doesnt do much comedy anymore and can play both funny and dramatic.. and greatly corny(liar liar)