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To Be or Not to Be Reviews

61 Metascore
1983
1 hr 48 mins
Comedy
PG

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A down on his luck Polish actor with a straying wife makes a plan to get them both out of the country and escape the impending horrors of the Nazi invasion.

Mel Brooks and his real-life wife, Anne Bancroft, starred for the first time together in the husband-and-wife roles previously played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard in this remake of TO BE OR NOT TO BE. The plot is much the same as in the Ernst Lubitsch original, with everything played for laughs and Brooks at his funniest in impersonations of Nazis. What's missing is the relevance of the 1942 film, released while Germany occupied Poland.