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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
24 September 1927, Lee-on-Solent, England, UK
1928
14 March 1900, Mexico
15 March 1907, Columbus, Ohio, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
11 December 1947, Lakewood, Ohio, USA
16 October 1912, San Antonio, Texas, USA
29 September 1942, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
January 02, 2011
Brooks' corniness yields plenty of belly laughs.
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.
August 17, 2012
Thus funny, well acted parody of Unievrsal horror films of the 1930s is without a doubt Mel Brooks' best picture.
April 25, 2014
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
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 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.
October 16, 2013
One of Mel Brooks' most brilliant and immortal cinematic works to date...
June 04, 2007
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
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 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.