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Victor Frankenstein's grandson, a neurosurgeon, has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather. He tries to prove people that he is not insane. Lucks come his way when he inherits the castle of his grandfather and discovers the process that reanimates a dead body from the lab.
The Brooks of 'Young Frankenstein' isn't really skewering the conventions of the horror movie - he's paying tribute to them, and using them as scaffolding for his particular brand of goofy, Borscht Belt burlesque.
Wilder's hysteria seems perfectly natural. You never question what's driving him to it; his fits are lucid and total. They take him into a different dimension -- he delivers what Harpo promised.
Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?
May 20, 2003
Film Geek Central
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless.