Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks' monstrously crazy tribute to Mary Shelley's classic pokes hilarious fun at just about every Frankenstein movie ever made. Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor (Marty Feldman) and the curvaceous Inga (Teri Garr), he creates a monster (Peter Boyle) who only wants to be loved.
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Hilarious - dural78
A classic film that is as much as a spoof as it is a tribute to the old black and white horror films. Gene Wilder is at his eccentric best as Fredrick Frankenstein.
Teri Garr plays an underrated character as an innocent and naive German lab assistant. I just wish Peter Boyle had more of a speaking role.
Overall an excellent movie.One of Mel's best. - T-Bar
Next to Blazing Saddles this is Brooks' best film. It is lovingly shot in real black and white from the period and makes reference to all the great horror films of the thirties.
I can understand some reactions to the film from younger viewers.For a modern audience the attention to detail will be lost.
The performances are excellent all round with Igor and the monster coming off the best. The song and dance is excellent and who can ever hear Sweet Mystery of Life again without laughing out loud?
See it.Genius at work - XTRUClerk
Gene Wilder once said about Marty Feldman that the best way to hide from him was to stand right in front of him... His eyes you see. Yes, I realize it's a mean thing to say, but it's also very funny, and you have to understand that it's said with a kind of fondness for Marty that is undeniable. Here we have one of the funniest movies of all time. Not just a film that claims to be hysterical, as so many movies do, but one that is legitimately, laugh out loud funny. And, amidts all the jokes, all the gags, all the comical genious there is Marty Feldman, threatening at every turn to steal the whole show whether he suddenly apears as a floating head singing "I aint got no-body!" of he's chewing on Madeline Kahn's fox neck warmer. Oh yeah, and then there are those eyes again, those eyes that make you want to laugh everytime he comes into shot. The thing to note is that a man might make a career out of those zany eyes alone, but Marty was a comic genious and would have been no matter what his facial features were. So rent Young Frankenstein. Marty is just one of the masters at work here. A very funny film that deserved to be called funny. Cheers.
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Hilarious - dural78
A classic film that is as much as a spoof as it is a tribute to the old black and white horror films. Gene Wilder is at his eccentric best as Fredrick Frankenstein.
Teri Garr plays an underrated character as an innocent and naive German lab assistant. ...One of Mel's best. - T-Bar
Next to Blazing Saddles this is Brooks' best film. It is lovingly shot in real black and white from the period and makes reference to all the great horror films of the thirties.
I can understand some reactions to the film from younger viewers.For a modern ...Genius at work - XTRUClerk
Gene Wilder once said about Marty Feldman that the best way to hide from him was to stand right in front of him... His eyes you see. Yes, I realize it's a mean thing to say, but it's also very funny, and you have to understand that it's said with a kind ...