Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

cricketbat Yes, I know this movie is silly and simple and dated, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. It was one of my favorites when I was a kid. This is a great film for any classic-horror lover, and it's a fun Halloween movie to watch with the family.

J Besser I've seen this one as often as any movie I can think of. We all grew up on Abbott & Costello. I'm a fan, so I enjoy all their movies. A&C Meet Frankenstein is the one the novices and non-fans always mention. With good reason, it's great fun. Famous for having the monsters play it straight.

calvinnme Aside from the fact that the comedy team itself is in peak form here, the actors playing the monsters are allowed to play it straight and are all seen to great effect. Glenn Strange as the Monster has more screen time in this film than the Houses of Frankenstein and Dracula combined and his portrayal has to be the most brutish and inhuman of those performed by the various actors who took on the role at Universal. The fact that most viewers are not familiar with Strange's face, too, adds to his authenticity in the role, I feel.With Karloff, Chaney, and Lugosi you can see their well known faces though the Frankenstein makeup, and are conscious of the fact that they are playing the part. But seeing the unknown Strange's face in the same role twigs no recognition for the viewer, helping to accept him in the role even more so. At least, that's how I see it.Lugosi is at the last great peak of his career in this film in what was only his second time to play Count Dracula. (He was Dracula in Return of the Vampire in all but name, of course). Heavily made up because of his aging features, that white pasty face only enhances his other worldliness as the Count. Bela, of course, also brought an aristocratic dignity to the role.It's a shame that this terrific performance by Lugosi did not lead to him being hot and back in demand again in Hollywood but it didn't. Horror films were becoming passe and Lugosi, unlike Karloff, was only associated with that genre. Adding to the insult, though, when it came to promoting A & C Meet Frankenstein, Universal didn't ask Lugosi to participate, even though he was a key star in the film's success. Instead the studio asked Karloff to do it.Finally, I never found Lon Chaney more effective in the dual role of Larry Talbot and the Wolf Man. One of the reasons for this is that I think the Bud Westmore Wolf Man makeup that he wore in this film is more effective than the Jack Pierce makeup he had on in his previous outings as the hirsute one. Chaney hated the Pierce makeup because it took so long to apply it (his all time hatred for makeup applications was that of the Mummy, by the way, which took even longer to put on).I'd recommend it. The two Universal franchises of the 40's - Abbott and Costello and the remainder of Universal horror - blend effectively here.

mark.waltz Bela's back and Abbott and Costello have got him! Not that they want him, because Lugosi is playing Count Dracula for the first time on screen in 17 years! Of course, he had played the blood sucking creature of the undead on stage, but those were mostly second rate theaters where the quality was lacking.Utilizing all the trick that made his movie performance as Dracula so perfect in the first place, we'll go see appears to be much younger than he actually was. In a sense this is also an end to the whole horror series of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the wolf man which had seen many sequels over the years never sent their original appearances.Wildhorse Karloff would go on to appear in 2 Abbott and Costello films, he does not repeat his role of the Frankenstein monster. That goes to glens strange, who only speaks one line and is basically a minor character. Other than Abbott and Costello, the main characters are Dracula and Wolfman, as well as a female scientist who uses chubby little Lou to get ahold of the casket containing the monsters bodies.This isn't a light from start to finish, and even the most devoted of classic horror movie fan will temporarily forget that Lupo he was replaced by other actors as Dracula during the 17 year interlude. Only slightly juvenile in spots, this is a film in adult audiences can enjoy over and over again. There is a great gag in the last scene that sums up all that is right with this film.