10 Awesome Ways Movies Got Back At Critics

6. Mel Brooks Depicted Critics As Literally Pissing On Art - History Of The World: Part 1

Trust Mel Brooks to find a way to get back at his critics in a manner both classy and vulgar, for though Brooks was on a six-movie critical winning streak when his 1981 anthology comedy History of the World, Part I hit screens, he nevertheless felt like giving his detractors a snappy dressing-down.

In one of the film's very first scenes, Brooks depicts the birth of humanity's very first artist in the Stone Age, creating a beautiful cave painting that astounds his fellow early men.

The narrator (voiced by Orson Welles, for an extra laugh) then introduces an art critic, telling the audience, "With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth, the critic."

At this point, said critic climbs on a rock and proudly urinates all over the cave painting, in a totally unsubtle yet absolutely hilarious dissection of creator-critic relations.

And in case you're curious, the film ended up receiving broadly positive reviews from the press regardless.