For nearly as long as I can remember now people have been saying "You can't remake Blazing Saddles today"

Well someone should have given that memo to Seth MacFarlane in 2014, 40 years after Blazing Saddles hit the scene in 1974 the Family Guy creator and all-around renaissance man decided he wanted to direct, write and star in his very own western.

How does one of the classics of comedy by one of the best comedian's ever, stack up today and against it's spiritual successor in both film and their auteur's?