Young Frankenstein
A young man working as a neurosurgeon, he spent his whole life in the hope of one, the legend of his grandfather Frankenstein. The doctor tried repeatedly to prove to people that he was honest about his grandfather and that he was not as crazy as others thought. After a while, luck serves him to find the doctor himself a heir to a large castle for the grandfather of the deceased, and then discovers that mystery is hidden in the process that saves the dead body.
28 May 1944, Sunninghill, Buckingham, England, UK
4 April 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 November 1916, New Jersey, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
25 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
31 July 1921, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
8 July 1934, London, England, UK
August 13, 1926 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
April 25, 2014
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
June 04, 2007
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
August 17, 2012
Thus funny, well acted parody of Unievrsal horror films of the 1930s is without a doubt Mel Brooks' best picture.
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.
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.
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?
June 24, 2006
For a really delightful parody, James Whale's own Bride of Frankenstein is far better value.
June 20, 2015
... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsédé and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale.
January 02, 2011
Brooks' corniness yields plenty of belly laughs.
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.
October 16, 2013
One of Mel Brooks' most brilliant and immortal cinematic works to date...
