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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 6, 2005
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Twentieth Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman & Cloris Leachman | |
Performer: | Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars & Gene Hackman | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Edited by | John C. Howard | |
Screenwriting by | Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Cinematography by | Gerald Hirschfeld | |
Produced by | Michael Gruskoff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
It would seem that nothing new or noteworthy could still be gleaned from the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley creation, but Mel Brooks with Young Frankenstein has done just that.
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Los Angeles Free Press
[Brooks'] funniest movie. Gene Wilder as Frankenstein's grandson is all repressed hysteria, Marty Feldman a superbly deformed Igor...
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...With sterling support from Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman and the superb Marty Feldman...
Total Film
Rating: A --
Cloris Leachman and Madeline Kahn are also a riot in their roles.
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rachelsreviews.net
Rating: 4/5 --
What it demonstrates is that for spoof to work, the spoofers must have deep affection for the material out of which they are wringing the wee.
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Empire Magazine
For a really delightful parody, James Whale's own Bride of Frankenstein is far better value.
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Time Out
Product Description:
An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and a cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the film's star, Gene Wilder, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN has all the usual--and in this case slightly unusual--suspects: the reluctant scientist Frederick Frankenstein, who is actually the grandson of the infamous creature-creator (pronounced "Fronken-steen" and played by Wilder), his spoiled fiancée (Madeline Kahn), Igor the pop-eyed hunchback (Marty Feldman), his dizzy assistant (Teri Garr), the castle's hideous head housekeeper (Cloris Leachman), and, of course, the Monster (Peter Boyle). Highlights include the sets, which are the original ones used in the Whale films; the beautiful black-and-white cinematography; and the fine screenplay. Combining noirish elegance with uproarious sight gags and double entendres is a feat Brooks pulls off fabulously, directing the wonderful ensemble to act with sensitivity and humanistic feelings as well as with lunatic abandon. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a treat from beginning to end.
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- UPC: 086162090707
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