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Summary: Laugh yourself sick!
Review: The first time saw this hysterically funny movie,I ended up embarrassing my friends when the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene came on the screen.I laughed so hard I thought my head was going to burst!!Gene and Peter danced their way into movie history in the funniest scene ever put on film(IMHO)I thank Mel for this precious film every time I watch it.
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Summary: Beautifully acted, hilariously clever
Review: I don't remember how old I was when I first saw Young Frankenstein, but I can't remember a time when it wasn't one of my favorites. Gene Wilder is an absolute genius in this movie -- his comic timing is perfect. The cinematography is wonderful, and really shines through on the DVD version. Mel Brooks's commentary is fun to listen to as well -- he's so clearly fond and proud of his creation, much like Wilder's Frankenstein has a parent's instinct to love and protect the monster he creates. This is the rare spoof that hits its mark, gets the laugh, but also has enormous heart.
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Summary: As worthy as the movies it spoofs.
Review: 1974 was an amazing year for Mel Brooks. In this short space of time, he unleashed on America a pair of the funniest American farces of all time: *Blazing Saddles* and *Young Frankenstein*. (As if burned out by the exertion, he would never scale these heights again.) *Young Frankenstein* is Brooks' most daring movie, insofar as it dares to spoof a pair of films -- *Frankenstein* and *The Bride of Frankenstein* -- that were exceedingly campy in the first place. But very little has ever daunted Brooks, whose impudence extends to using the same lab equipment that was used in Whale's movies. Brooks even shoots his farce in much the same manner as Whale shot his films (similar sets, "iris" fade-outs, the works). The result of all this is that the silliness on display is ironically, and comically, dignified by the handsome look of the movie. Perhaps a little more dignity is added as a result of Gene Wilder co-writing the screenplay. Apparently inspired by a love for the Frankenstein movies of the 30's, Wilder -- as writer -- brings a sentimentality to the proceedings that was totally absent from, for example, *Blazing Saddles*. (As ACTOR, he brings melodramatic screaming that's hilariously contradictory to the "straight man" lines of dialogue he assigns himself.) Wilder is aided in this by Peter Boyle as the Monster. Boyle surprisingly gives as much pathos to the role as Karloff ever did, despite suffering such Brooksian indignities as having ladlefuls of hot soup poured on his crotch by a blind hermit . . . and it is here that Brooks is at his best, by the way. He savages the classic scene from *Bride* by having an uncredited and unrecognizable Gene Hackman behave like a whiny dolt. The "blind hermit" scene was the one serious moment in James Whale's ocean of high camp . . . but after you see what Brooks did with it, you'll never see that scene in the original movie again without cracking a smile. Put it this way: Brooks knows what butters his bread. [The DVD is perhaps over-lavish. Commentary, 36-min. documentary, dozens of trailers and TV spots, production stills, etc. Seems like a lot of dressing for this particular salad, but if you're a fan of the movie, you'll be in heaven.]
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Summary: The Greatest Movie Every Made
Review: My wife rolls her eyes but can't help quoting the movie herself sometimes. How much do I love this movie? I bought the DVD before I bought a DVD player!
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Summary: Wha ha ha
Review: This is right near the best movie I've ever seen.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies ever made!!
Review: This is Mel Brooks best movie ever! You have to watch it more than once to catch everything...But it gets funnier every time!
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Summary: Mel Brooks best
Review: This is probably Mel Brooks best movie. The screenplay is co-written by Gene Wilder. The story is about A college medical professor called Dr. Frankenstein (Pronouced Fronkensteen) who is the grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein. Dr. Fronkensteen learns that he inherited his late Grandfathers mansion and Labratory. He travels to Transylvania to continue his grandfathers work.Young Frankenstein is a parody of "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein". My favorite scene is when Dr. Fronkensteen confronts I(Eye)gor about the brain he just put into the monster.
"You mean to tell me I just put in an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long , fifty-four inch wide GORILLA!" This movie is purely hysterical. Mel brooks used the actual Frankenstein sets and props.
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Summary: One of the funniest comedies of all-time!
Review: "Young Frankenstein" is one of the funniest movies ever made! I own it on DVD! The picture and the sound quality are great. The features are fantastic including the production photographs, documentary, and the trailers and TV spots. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), the grandson of a famous scientist goes to Transylvania. There he meets Igor (Marty Feldman), a strange hunchback, Inga (Teri Garr), a beautiful lab assistant, and Frau Blucher (Cloris Leachman), the old housekeeper. If you have a DVD player, you must own this movie. It's hilarious!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: A Movie that proves that sight and sound gags, clever dialoue, subtle and not subtle insinuation blended with era-setting incidental music and first quality black & white photography is all the ingredients needed for a hilarious first rate comedy that's still good for party or family viewing two decades after its original release! Enjoy!!
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Summary: 'walk this way'
Review: Mel Brooks's finest hour and a half.This is a gloriously affectionate swipe at the classic Universal horrors of the 30's(it even uses some original lab equipment.)Gene Wilder is on top form as the eponymous baron.The whole cast is a joy in fact,with everyone giving their all in a movie they so obviously enjoyed making.
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