Dracula - Dead and Loving It (1995)

Dead on Arrival

How can the other 94 reviews on this site give this movie an average of 4 stars?!! At best, it is a two star movie experience and that is being very generous. Dead and Loving It only rates the second star because it is a rather good looking movie and it has a good cast. What it doesn't have is many funny jokes. That Mel Brooks wrote and directed this is hard to believe and it is far down on the list of his best work. Someone here compared this favorably to his (and Gene Wilder's) "Young Frankenstein." They must have been insane. "Young Frankenstein" is possibly the best of all the Mel Brooks comedies, while this is close to the worst. Please note this is from someone who is a fan of both Mr. Brooks and Mr. Nielsen and also a lover of vampire movies. It simply is not very good. July 12, 2008

"What ARE you doing to the furniture ?! . . ."

So says priggish, prudish Solicitor Renfield (Peter MacNichol . . . brilliant) to the two (very) female vampires who enter his bedroom in Dracula's (Leslie Nielsen; need I say more?) castle, when the ladies (?) proceed to rub various areas of their attractive (but fully clothed)anatomies against various items of said furnishings.

Before this, Renfield has encountered a Gypsy woman (Brooks' late wife, Ann Bancroft) who has warned him about vampires and given him a cross necklace to wear, all the while jiggling the skin under her chin to make her voice tremble eerily.

It only gets more ridiculous from there, folks, and you'll only laugh harder.

Spoofing is the sincerest form of film flattery, IMHO, and Brooks clearly loves and remembers the history of Dracula on film, from Lugosi to Langella to Oldman. Watch; you'll see a joke/tip-of-the-hat to each version, although the overall tone is closest to the Lugosi original.

Highly recommended for Brooks/spoof fans.

Enjoy.

May 27, 2008

Best Dracula ever!

Best movie L. Nielsen can ever dream of acting in... haha
Seriously, one of the best comedies ever done March 1, 2008

Bloody good time!

I've always been a fan of Mel Brooks, and with singular exceptions, I've enjoyed almost all of his films. This is one enjoyable film. I think that the film follows the book a little more closely than the Lugosi version did, but it's really played for laughs. The music is good, the effects are well done, and everyone does a fine job in keeping straight faces throughout. Brooks's humor is not for everyone, because it tends to border on the ribald side. I find that a "plus" in this film, because that tends to lighten whatever dark situation the characters are in. Picture quality is excellent, and the audio is perfect. I highly recommend this DVD. February 13, 2008

Great Satire

Had this in VCR format and my daughter wanted the DVR for Christmas. We love this movie. Fun and lighthearted. January 28, 2008

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