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Young Frankenstein [1975] | ![Young Frankenstein [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GT2FZ8FKL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1380
Format: Black & White, Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036003872
ASIN: B00004XQSI
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1974
Release Date: October 30, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you were to argue Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein ranks among the top-10 funniest movies of all time, nobody could reasonably dispute the claim. Spoofing classic horror in the way that Brooks' previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, the movie is both a loving tribute and a raucous, irreverent parody of Universal's classic horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks recreated the Frankenstein laboratory using the equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for non-stop comedy. The story, of course, involves Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his effort to resume experiments in re-animation pioneered by his late father. (He's got some help, since dad left behind a book titled How I Did It.) Assisting him is the hapless hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the buxom but none-too-bright maiden Inga (Teri Garr), and when Frankenstein succeeds in creating his monster (Peter Boyle), the stage is set for an outrageous revision of the Frankenstein legend. With comedy highlights too numerous to mention, Brooks guides his brilliant cast (also including Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Gene Hackman in a classic cameo role) through scene after scene of inspired hilarity. Indeed, Young Frankenstein is a charmed film, nothing less than a comedy classic, representing the finest work from everyone involved. Not one joke has lost its payoff, and none of the countless gags have lost their zany appeal. From a career that includes some of the best comedies ever made, this is the film for which Mel Brooks will be most fondly remembered. No video library should be without a copy of Young Frankenstein. And just remember--it's pronounced "Fronkensteen". --Jeff Shannon
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 Perfection! January 19, 2008
Colonel Butterscotch (UK)
First saw this in a double feature with Monty Python and the Holy Grail thinking it was a B-movie - how wrong I was. This is sheer perfection - the acting, script, set designs, lighting etc. etc. There is nothing to fault in this film and it guarantees plenty of laughs at every viewing. Gene Wilder : never better; Marty Feldman : priceless.
NB. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not bad either!!!
absolute class!!! November 24, 2007
M. Reynolds (uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An absolute gem!! truly comical film!! very strange also, as much as i love the genius of wilder the show is stolen by marty feldman, he steals the show all the way through, the frau blucher horse moment 'BLUCHER' and the head singing scene!!!i will never get bored of watching this, i saw it approx' 23 years ago for the first time and loved it and have watched it since and loved it each time. brooks at his true best!
 A funny spoof and quite a well made film August 24, 2007
Lou Knee (England)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A good spoof which is much better contained than most of his films. Brooks still sees fit though to pass off other filmakers' ideas as his own, such as the policeman's prosthetic arm with a life of its own. Benefited greatly from having the unique Marty Feldman as Igor. Has the usual mix of funny and cringingly unfunny jokes and lines telegraphed to you, but in this film they are not so jarringly awful as they often are. Overall he builds a good, fairly tight spoof (as tight as he can make it-at least it doesn't all spill out into general everybody's a target for its humour wildness which abandons the subject, and set, altogether, this time). Has to be his finest work, though with Brooks, that may not actually be saying much.
Brooks best July 29, 2007
S J Buck (Kent, UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although 'Blazing Saddles' is better remembered and 'The Producers' more critically acclaimed (Mel Brooks won an Oscar for the screenplay), Young Frankenstein is the best and the funniest film he has ever made. Its a wonderful comedic homage to the original James Whale films made back in the 1930's. So this is much more than just a parody. The original sets were recreated, in the same location, and the film is shot in black and white which brings back happy memories of Bride of Frankenstein (itself a black comedy).
Mel Brooks was very lucky to have Gene Wilder as leading actor for his best films. In the 1960's and 1970's Wilder was a comedy actor without peer. Effortlessly funny, and here right from his opening scene, at a teaching Hospital he's brilliant. The classic moment in this scene is his growing anger whilst holding a scalpel. Well you can guess what happens... Wilder does it with brilliant comic timing. Seeing the film again recently it struck me that Wilder would have made a great silent comedy star. Evidence of just how good Wilder was in this era, is that he even out performs the late Marty Feldman. The rest of the cast are nearly as good with Cloris Leachman and Peter Boyle both giving marvellous performances.
Gene Wilder also gets writing credits with Brooks as well and between them they produced a great script with a stream a great one-liners:
Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
Igor: [doing a Groucho Marx] Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban.
The DVD has some great extras, with the commentry by Mel Brooks being a particular highlight. Its both informative and funny. I haven't watched the documentary on the DVD yet. Overall this is a superb disc and a film that should be in everybodies collection.
Not only a classic parody but a classic in itself June 28, 2007
Martin Lewis (Englander in Holstein)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" is such an excellently observed piece of parody that it could fit quite easily within any collection of the Universal Horror cycle it so lovingly satirises as not to see the joins.
Unlike much of the later Brooks' works, "Young Frankenstein" contains true homage to it's source material which though extremely funny is never dismissive.
The making of documentary is worthwhile, and of a higher quality than the norm, and while Brooks' commentary track is far from comprehensive it does allow some insight into the efforts put into making the picture the success it still continues to be when more recent Mel Brook's comedies seem extremely dated
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