A humorous twist on a classic horror flick. This is Mel Brooks at his comedic finest. You didn't know that Mary Shelley was a comedy writer? Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder knew. How else could they have written such a brilliant screenplay?
This is not mere sarcasm, but pure genius, blended with tongue in cheek jabs at everything from medicine, religion, politics, and Hollywood horror, to sex and marriage. Nothing is sacred, and Wilder and Brooks pray (prey?) at that alter often.
How would our PC society view Gene Hackman's performance as the "blind man' today? His character is hilarious.
What about Kenneth Mars as the police inspector? He does for amputees what Hackman did for the sight impaired.
Unless your cravenly PC and/or Humor challenged, you must see this movie, twice, as you will be laughing so hard you will miss things the first time around.
(I saw this on the big screen with a rather dense classmate in high school, and I had to pay to see it again because I missed so much explaining all the sight gags and such to him.)
On second thought, maybe the PC should be made to view this film in it's uncensored entirety, as well as other Mel Brook's gems, to give them a reality check of their funny bones. (Latin: Humerus, a bone from your elbow to wrist.)
Enjoy, or it's the "glue factory" for you!
This is not mere sarcasm, but pure genius, blended with tongue in cheek jabs at everything from medicine, religion, politics, and Hollywood horror, to sex and marriage. Nothing is sacred, and Wilder and Brooks pray (prey?) at that alter often.
How would our PC society view Gene Hackman's performance as the "blind man' today? His character is hilarious.
What about Kenneth Mars as the police inspector? He does for amputees what Hackman did for the sight impaired.
Unless your cravenly PC and/or Humor challenged, you must see this movie, twice, as you will be laughing so hard you will miss things the first time around.
(I saw this on the big screen with a rather dense classmate in high school, and I had to pay to see it again because I missed so much explaining all the sight gags and such to him.)
On second thought, maybe the PC should be made to view this film in it's uncensored entirety, as well as other Mel Brook's gems, to give them a reality check of their funny bones. (Latin: Humerus, a bone from your elbow to wrist.)
Enjoy, or it's the "glue factory" for you!