This could maybe have scraped by with 1½ stars for having three or four jokes that kind of made me laugh, but after I learned how evil this production was, it lost the right to that extra ½.

Mel Brooks snuck a clause into his Blazing Saddles contract which stated that no sequel could be made without his involvement, unless Warner Bros produced a TV spin-off of the film within 6 months of its release (the idea being that they…