This 40th-anniversary package is reason enough to add Brooks’s classic to your collection.
The macho bluster taken seriously in the gorgeous but uninterestingly pumped-up The Untouchables is here intriguingly skewered.
This boxed set is haphazard, slapped together, meat and no potatoes. All of the above apply to the films as well.
It’s one of the most lazily framed mainstream films in history, but Warner’s video transfer looks truly wonderful.
As with any Mel Brooks film, success depends almost solely on the strength of his cast.