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it is 1789 . france is in turmoil . check that france is in europe . start the revolution without me broke ground for a comedy revolution . it takes the tumultuous let them eat cake days of the french revolution and gives everyone a figurative pie in the face . letem eat comedy . producer director bud yorkin explains its one of the first comedies that dealt in total extremes . so i prefer to look at our exercise in funmaking as a precursor to the era of the madcap comedies overwhelming success . the films premise is right out of cloud cuckoo land . two sets of twins are mismatched at birth so that years later each set will have one gene wilder and one donald sutherland . one set of twins grows up as aristocratic swashbucklers . the other ends up the equivalent of buckle washers peasants . in a hilarious fluke of fate the peasants become part of the ruling class and vice versa . then the war begins ... the comedy revolution began too . in years following start the revolution without me woody allen bananas sleeper mel brooks blazing saddles young frankenstein and the abrahams zucker zucker team airplane the naked gun would all create madcap masterpieces . a lineup like that must have had a tremendous start .
vhs pg 91 minutes warner