I’m so gay

Sorry to say it, but I am so gay!

Its a beautiful summers Saturday night in Melbourne, and what do I choose to do. I go to see the new movie of Mel Brooks “The Producers” on its opening weekend.

As I say, I am SO gay!

Now unless you are like my friend Hardware, who I went to see the film with, and you have been hiding under a rock for the last 10 years, you will be aware of this show. It goes like this, theatrical Producer Max Bialystok [Nathan Lane] and timid Accountant Leo Bloom [Mathew Broderick ], conspire to intentionally produce a Broadway flop, “Springtime for Hitler” in order to embezzle the shows backers out of millions of dollars.

Add a toe tapping set of songs (oh yes its a musical) and some insane production numbers and you have a long running Broadway smash hit. After the success of that adaptation of Chicago from stage to screen, I imagine that film producers (the real kind) have been running around like freaks to find other shows to convert. And so we have ‘The Producers” and “Rent” suddenly coming out as movies. All from our good friend Rupert Murdoch.

All up its a fun show and really doesn’t deviate from the stage production, for which we can all be eternally grateful. Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick made a huge name for themselves on Broadway with this and they are carrying that success on beautifully. Will Ferrell is suitably demented and slapstick as Franz Liebkind, the crazed German play write, while the gorgeous and slightly confused Ula is done fabulously (although she is a little contralto for the role) by Uma – who is always fabulous.

There are even some good cameos with Jon Lovitz and Jai Rodriguez.

All up its a good movie, with no surprises of shocks for the lovers of the stage piece. I really enjoyed it and Hardware (who as I said is a Producers virgin, if nothing else) laughed almost continuously – in spite of the people next to us TALKING ALL THE WAY THROUGH IT.

Fricken people on dates – I tell you.