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Young Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein's grandson, a neurosurgeon, has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather. He tries to prove people that he is not insane. Lucks come his way when he inherits the castle of his grandfather and discovers the process that reanimates a dead body from the lab.
24 September 1927, Lee-on-Solent, England, UK
13 August 1934, London, England, UK
27 October 1949, Oakland, California, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
27 February 1921, Yonkers, New York, USA
24 November 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
January 02, 2011
Brooks' corniness yields plenty of belly laughs.
October 23, 2004
It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless.
October 03, 2015
It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes.
June 20, 2015
... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsédé and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale.
June 04, 2007
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
April 25, 2014
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
May 20, 2003
Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?
October 16, 2013
One of Mel Brooks' most brilliant and immortal cinematic works to date...
June 24, 2006
For a really delightful parody, James Whale's own Bride of Frankenstein is far better value.
August 17, 2012
Thus funny, well acted parody of Unievrsal horror films of the 1930s is without a doubt Mel Brooks' best picture.
June 18, 2016
The Brooks of 'Young Frankenstein' isn't really skewering the conventions of the horror movie - he's paying tribute to them, and using them as scaffolding for his particular brand of goofy, Borscht Belt burlesque.
January 15, 2013
Wilder's hysteria seems perfectly natural. You never question what's driving him to it; his fits are lucid and total. They take him into a different dimension -- he delivers what Harpo promised.
