History of the World: Part II

It just feels like "this is supposed to be funny, right?" Where as with the first one the audience sees history through Mel Brooks eyes, this one just feels like Drunk History sketches without the drunk person. It doesn't feel like the piss is being taken, it's just feels cheap. There's no voice that ties it all together, it's all really funny people whose ideas don't mesh well. All these performers are charismatic and so its watchable, like background while your cleaning kinda watchable, but the jokes themselves aren't clever enough for the performers delivering them.

It all feels like sketch that might work live, but definitely doesn't work filmed.

Ultimately, it suffers from everyone behaving like it's a comedy. What worked so well about the first movie is that all of MB's characters behaved as though they were the hero's of their narrative, but this one is just clowning, and at least for me, that really doesn't translate to film.

JB Smoove as JB Smoove is so far the best part.

Being a life long MB fan, this has glimpses of the old days, but current societal trends steer this series into a dull, unfunny direction. Reminds me of post 2000's SNL. Tries to be funny, is trying to be trendy, but it does not translate well into Mel Brooks humor. If the effort was to try to "tune up" the traditional Mel Brooks style of writing, Bring it into a new era, It faceplanted. It felt like younger writers were whispering in Mel's ear, "no no... this is funny stuff, it will play!" Mel "Are you sure??? This just doesn't make sense to me... but if you think so..." Don't get me wrong, I see some comic genius for sure. Noah, Alexander Bell, 1 of the Lincoln bits, the underground railroad were quite funny. Unfortunately the rest felt as if they were trying to grow a batch of Mel brooks humor in their cinematic garden and it was choked out by weeds, mired in fields of boring, ugly kudzu.

It's not all bad. I watched it all and thought it would be as funny as the first one. It was not. There are some funny scenes to make you laugh a little but it's not often. It's worth a watch if you are a fan of Mel Brooke's but I can't believe he wrote any of this. The easily offended are ruining everything and now what could have been an amazing series has been toned down to, well what it is. I am really hoping Hollywood begins to go back to cater for the masses and not the small community which is woke and easily offended. It's a comedy and comedy is suppose to offend and make people laugh. Jokes don't represent beliefs they are joke.

OMG what a disappointment! So many people were looking forward to a sequel because the first movie was great and maybe even Mel Brook's best film along with Young Frankenstein.

Though the sequel, not a film but TV series, is pointless, boring and very low level comedy. I saw all episodes and maybe from all of them I got 3 or max 4 times a small smile om my face. You noted that after episode 2 there was no more inspiration at all to make people laugh and the most stupid free-wheeling comedy came in place to survive till the last episode. So please no more sequel or season 2.

Part 1 was good as it was and should have stayed as a joke that there would never be a a part 2. So end of line, very, very low budget comedy not worth watching.

Wow, what a waste of talent. As someone who has loved Mel Brooks for decades (and quoted "Blazing Saddles" on practically a weekly basis for just as long), this was a crushing disappointment.

Clumsy, forced jokes that would embarrass your average middle-schooler combined with just flat-out unfunny writing make a cringeworthy, discombobulated mess. This is also the first time I've ever seen Wanda Sykes NOT be funny. And the D-Day scene at the beginning of episode 2 was just a foul, disgusting mess. Somebody obviously thought that just having people fire stupid lines at each other quickly would somehow be funny - it's not.

Madeline Kahn is spinning in her grave.