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Summary: Trying to make a better monster
Review: The film has it's problems, but it is worth seeing and it is a whole lot better than Bram Stoker's Dracula. The sets are breathtaking, the costumes and special effects get an A. The acting is generally good, DeNiro is the stand-out as the creature, also look for some good, but small roles by John Cleese and Robert Hardy as professors with very different approahces. The other characters seem very overwelmed and overly emotional at times and I felt like they never spent enough buliding up these characters for us to really know them. The choppy scenes which make up the majority of the film really detracts from us getting to know the characters early on. I felt like I was being pushed on to the creation scene because they were just so anxious to get there that they rushed through a number of scenes that would have helped to better establish the emotional parts we see later. Sometimes I felt left with a hollow feeling instead of feeling pity or sympathy for the characters. Still this film has enough interesting parts and strong enough visuals to make it worth viewing and Frankenstein's first lab is possibly the best set I have ever seen in a horror film.
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Summary: Excellent version of Shelley's story
Review: I love this movie. If you are a true fan of Mary Shelley you should love this movie.I think that because popular culture has managed to turn Frankenstein into a horror story, the essential elements have become lost. People expect to see a story that is not true to Shelley's vision. Frankenstein in reality, is a tragedy. Shelley makes statements in her work about life, love, desertion, obsession, and consequences, and Branagh does not forget this. Branagh does a beautiful job in capturing the gothic element of the piece, thus explaining the "over the top" quality of it that seemed seriously to annoy some viewers. One must remember, after all, that Mary Shelley was a Romantic writer, married to one of the great Romantic poets Percy Shelley and dearly admired by his friend Lord Byron. So the piece should have an exaggerated feel to it. Just think of the works and the lives of her contemporaries. Those who sneer at this aspect of the movie and actually boast about the hilarity of it, should not boast their ignorance so brazenly. Maybe they should have paid a little bit more attention in English class! Branagh does truly have an excellent feel for his subject and for Mary Shelley's work. The story could not be any more timely. In an age where we are making babies in petrie dishes it could not be more relevent. I think it is very easy for people who do nothing creative to abuse Branagh's efforts. Bravo Kenneth! You done good.
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Summary: Could have been better...
Review: This is a fairly good attempt at re-creating a timeless horror classic. Branagh did well and his version is quite mature if what a little boring. After viewing it once I don't think its a film that I could be bothered to watch again, instead it's covered in dust on my video shelf. As a horror fan, I can't denie that this is still good with a good host of British actors. Robert De Niro was pretty good as the monster but the make up of the monster did not have much to offer, horror wise, but then like I said, this is a film for mature horror fans.
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Summary: A decent effort
Review: This is, admittedly, one of my favourite films, although I don't care much for the gory excesses or the seeming self-gratification of Kenneth Branagh in his scenes with Helen Bonham Carter. Also, they have taken some liberties with the original story, although mercifully we are spared a lot of the verbal 'Victoriana' of the original book. In most ways, it is no more or less of a winner than the classic version with Boris Karloff (admittedly more effective in that it doesn't make people giggle when they see the newly-animated Creature). Perhaps the best thing about it is Patrick Doyle's score... he has worked for and with Branagh since 1989 and his every effort on the film's music has given it the most magical and effective atmosphere.
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Summary: Not exactly like the book, but still commendable.
Review: I rented this movie in the hopes that, unlike the old nuts-and-bolts version, this version would give the acclaimed book its due credit. I was disappointed to find that it was a remake of the old movie, but it still housed many of the book's themes and characters. Though many of the storylines were changed (Clerval never is killed, and Elizabeth has her heart ripped out instead of being smothered), it still fit the movie very well. De Niro's performance of the horrid creature flows well, while Branagh's Victor seems a bit in-your-face at different points. As Always, Helena Bonham Carter is a joy to watch, and sexy Aidan Quinn is a winner by all costs as Walton, the ship captain to whom Victor tells his story. I give it an A-.
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Summary: CANNOT BE DISMISSED
Review: There is such over-the-top relish and glee in Kenneth Branaugh's spectacular telling of the classic story that it simply cannot be dismissed --it is an interesting, entertaining and campy oddity. The ghoulish proceedings take on a Shakepearean intensity, even in the sets (think of that grand, spare staircase that swoops through the Frankenstein home) and the violent, fluid-gushing "creation" sequences. And despite everyone's overzealous performances, including Robert DeNiro as the first mobster Frankenstein, there are moments of terror and real stomach-turning, as in Elizabeth's re-awakening. It is hard to shake such bold, repulsive visions from your mind.
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Summary: .
Review: Pitifully bad. Branagh is as annoying as ever, in this terribly pretentious, over-the-top, ultra-lavish, and utterly unengaging version of the interesting if relatively dull novel. You'll occasionally get a couple minutes of real quality, but it is always quickly ruined by something inexplicable silly and irritating. It's true what a reviewer below said -- there are many, many scenes which just come off as funny, even though they aren't supposed to be. Never a good sign. This movie is interesting simply because it is so awful. Self-important chaos constitutes the general tonality.
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Summary: You are all brain dead.
Review: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT REMAKE OF A TERRIBLE OLD B&W FILM
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Summary: What a waste of resources
Review: De Niro is apparently a brain-damaged monster in one scene and then an articulate philosopher in the next. I saw this film the week that it was released. People were laughing at scenes that were'nt supposed to be funny. The film was inadvertently a runner-up to Young Frankenstein in the comedy genre.
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Summary: aaaaaahhhh-OOOOOOOHHH!
Review: I saw it a few years ago, and I loved it. Idon't get why it's rated R, though. I'm going to rent it for Halloween this year.
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