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Let me say at the start that it’s the perfect (and required) companion-piece to Mel’s own classic, “Young Frankenstein.”
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That said, I have to admit – this movie grew on me.
When it first came out in 1995 I was still in the military and, though a great fan of Mel’s films, I didn’t have time to go see it. Given it’s evident lack of theatrical success, it was available on VHS shortly there after and I rented it from a local video store.
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At first, it was amusing, but not much else.
However, my local renter gave me two weeks to review it and, as I watched with more attention to detail, I grew to appreciate it’s comic genius.
Others have written that it’s a salute to Universal’s 1937 classic “Dracula.” It’s all of that, but much more. It mocks elements of Frank Langella’s sexy 1979 “Dracula,” but the most obvious parody is Francis Ford Coppola’s much more pretentious “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”
Much of the dialogue is lifted, verbatim, from Universal’s “Dracula,” but given a new twist. For example the theater scene where Leslie Nielsen, as Dracula, attempts to contact Dr. Seward (played by Harvey Korman) and, before entering their opera box, instructs the usherette (played by Leslie Sachs) to “remember nothing of what I have said” – she takes him at his word and throws open the curtains to only stare at Seward & company and wonder blankly why she’s there!
Another bit of amusing trivia is the famous stake scene. Steven Weber, playing Jonathon Harker, drives a stake through Lucy Westenra’s (portrayed by Lysette Anthony) heart. In the production, no one told Steven that gallons and gallons of fake blood would erupt – and it shows! You can actually see Steven struggle to remember his lines and go on with the show.
One other bit of trivia – if there any Cub Scout Leaders out there who’ve seen this movie, check me out on this. In the Ball Room scene where Mel Brooks (playing Dr. Van Helsing) is decked out in tuxedo, isn’t the medal he’s wearing on his lapel a “Tiger Cub Leader” scout medal?
See it – Buy it – Love it. It’s very nearly the last of a genre of humor that can be enjoyed by every generation of your family. From the youngest to the oldest, all will find a reason to laugh.
As with “Young Frankenstein” you sort of need to have seen the original Universal films (if not the Francis Ford Copolla version) to get all the jokes. This might be the favorite vampire movie for pre-teen kids. It sure is in my house. Leslie Nielsen has the Dracula role nailed in what is his best performance outside of the Police Squad movies (George Hamilton, eat your heart out). Mel Brooks is slightly over the top, but since when is that news? You have to go back to “Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein” to find something this funny involving vampires.
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