One of those comedies that's fun without being very funny. Made almost entirely without words, it tells of three lunatic film-makers who save a major studio by making a silent movie in 1976. Several big stars come on and play themselves, and most of them show a much more precise sense of comedy than the central trio of Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise, whose frantic mugging is entirely alien to the style of comedy to which the film is presumably taking a bow. The jokes are mainly telegraphed so far in advance that you can forecast a punchline (on silent credit cards, that is) about five seconds before it comes. Eeven a funny running gag about a newspaper vendor being struck by a bundle of papers isn't really carried through. Pleasant, lightweight and good for a giggle, the film falls some way short of the standards you feel it's setting itself.

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