Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

dglink Mel Brooks's masterwork, "Young Frankenstein," paid respectful homage to the original Universal Frankenstein classics and, with an inspired cast of comedians and a hilarious script, that classic is worthy of repeated viewing. Evidently, Brooks hoped he could work the same magic with the Dracula films, but his "Dracula, Dead and Loving It" fails to reach the same heights of comedy as his earlier film. Unfortunately, Brooks got off to a bad start by shooting his Dracula homage in color; "Young Frankenstein" was shot in glorious black and white and evoked the 1930's studio look of the original films. While his Dracula take-off resembles the rich color and production design of the British Hammer horror films, Brooks might have been better to emulate the eerie shadowy atmosphere of the Bela Lugosi classic. Brooks may also have turned to the Francis Ford Coppola "Dracula" for inspiration, because the Count's hairstyle more than resembles Gary Oldman's in that film.The Brooks film does have some amusing moments, and follows the familiar Dracula storyline from Transylvania to London. While a surprising choice for the role, Leslie Nielsen is always fun to watch as the count, who never drinks...wine; Nielsen is especially funny when he is the talking head on a flying bat. As Renfield, Peter MacNicol does a good Dwight Frye imitation, and his insect snacking is a particular highlight. Mel Brooks himself plays Professor Van Helsing as, well, Mel Brooks, but Harvey Korman is more restrained than usual as Dr Seward, and Steven Weber is no comic. The film desperately needs a Madeline Kahn or a Marty Feldman to spark the lines and soar like a bat. Although failing to produce a second comedy-horror masterpiece, Brooks made a passably entertaining movie. While viewers may not burst into laughter, many will smile from time to time at familiar Brooks routines and generally have a good time.

willcundallreview Rating-3/10Dracula: Dead and Loving is a Mel Brooks comedy about well, yeah you guessed it, Dracula. Leslie Nielsen is our blood sucking main man and he dons his best Bela Lugosi cape and accent to boot to create a, memorable performance. Brooks uses his comedic interests well in picking the theme but not in styling the substance, and although I feel many hate this more than I do, I still thought it was pretty bad too. Now don't expect massively over the top jokes, you know the kind where Dracula turns into a bat and hits a window(although that does happen). Brooks seems to create humour which looks promising, but then waters it down for some reason, so that it doesn't fit. Now I'm not saying this isn't funny at it's certain moments, I even dare say I slightly enjoyed this movie(to say it is very poor), the movie has it's laughs and some well timed jokes not to mention crazy characters too.You might think I'd say the funny guy is Nielsen here but in truth my praise if you can call it that is all to Peter MacNicol who as Renfield is hilarious, the top person and thing about this movie. I'm not kidding when I say that Renfield is probably the reason this movie is a whole rating higher, I mean he also works well with Nielsen, the jokes run well between them and even those who are hard pressed to laugh will still I feel laugh maybe a little at MacNicol.Having said all that previously, I do however find this lazy writing and although I felt Brooks directs OK, his skill with the words is not his strongest suit in this case. In the case of the sets, you will only find horrible Hollywood staging that OK OK maybe has something to do with the comedy of It all, still didn't make me laugh. There's actually very little to say about this, in fact I think anyone who can write an essay about this is a hero, it has so little depth to it just becomes another silly joke to be tossed under the pile of films you will only watch once. Now who could I recommend this too?, ah yes those who like silly humour of course. Now Nielsen fans I hate to say that this isn't a patch on Naked Gun or Airplane but you do see some jokes along those kind of slapstick type humour lines. I think it is funny as mentioned, for me it starts to get more funny a little too late but nevertheless is still lazy work and probably too silly most of the time to create a reasonable film.Overall a Mel Brooks comedy that fails to shine, you know the type of movie that never delivers on it's promise of being hilarious, but can have it's moments in the spotlight. Watch out for Renshaw played by Peter MacNicol and a certain scenes with bugs is for me the top scene of this entire thing, in fact you could just cut all the parts out that make you laugh and that would be the best way to watch this movie.

Rainey Dawn One of the best sub-genres of movies is comedy-horror and this is one of the best films in that category. While Dracula maybe "Dead and Loving It" I am loving this movie, it is among my all time favorite comedy-horror flicks.This is one of Mel Brook's most hysterically funny films... well, I guess most all of his films are that way. And I will take a moment to plug Brook's "Young Frankenstein" movie because it is just as much of a must see comedy-horror as "Dracula: Dead and Loving It".If you like "Dead and Loving It" then you may like a similar film called "Love At First Bite".9/10

phd_travel This Dracula spoof has many original laughs along the way. After all the recent Vampire movies it's even more funny.Typical Mel Brooks humor is laugh out loud and crude. The cast is good including Amy Yasbeck as Mina and Leslie Nielsen as Dracula. Mel himself plays Van Helsing. Peter Macnicol is good too as Dracula's helper. Love the mock English accents and the way they pronounce "Lucy".It's not as original as Young Frankenstein or as ribald as History of the World but it's got enough laughs. Surprised to find out it had bad reviews and wasn't a hit. Definitely worth a watch. I am a Mel Brooks fan and this one is about in the middle of the range.