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DVD Dracula - Dead and Loving It
In 1995, it was promising to hear that Mel Brooks was creating "the companion piece to Young Frankenstein." He had also brought in the heavyweight of deadpan--Leslie Nielsen. As Lt. Frank Drebin in the Police Squad movies, Nielsen has no peer for silly stuff--just the player Brooks would seem to need for a strong movie, as any fan of Brooks perpetually hopes a new film may rekindle his madcap magic. Alas, the end results in Dracula: Dead and Loving It include a sprinkling of amusements and one big belly laugh. Brooks and his writers use a very tight adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but the spoofs can be spelled out as we go, as if they are paint-by-number. Some are jabs at Coppola's version of Dracula, but most are attached to classic Dracula films. If any real pleasure comes from the movie it's thanks to the efforts of the cast. Peter MacNicol plays the crazed Renfield to the letter, Steven Weber has a good time as the tight British Harkin, and Lysette Anthony charms as the doomed Lucy. Brooks and Nielsen ham it up just fine. There's even a surprisingly controlled performance by Harvey Korman (a character spoofing Anthony Hopkins's role in the misfire The Road to Wellville). As with Brooks's period comedies, the film looks better than it needs to and includes a few tricky special effects for good measure. This has nothing to do with the audience laughing--we need bigger jokes. And when you double over laughing in one scene--involving a stake through the heart and a bucket of blood--you want the movie to achieve Brooks's days of glory, when hearty laughter was the norm, not an isolated moment. --Doug Thomas
This has to be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. This is one of the best Mel Brooks films next to Young Frankenstein.
He always returns...
The Plot follows the ubiquitous Bram Stoker version, with the story and character herein primarily containing elements of the Bela Lugosi and the Gary Oldman depictions of Dracula, although it parodies pretty much the entire evolution of the romantic stereotype of the Vampire, to lesser degrees.
Renfield visits The Count, who sports that twin hennen-like hairdo, which turns out to be a "hair-hat", and is attired in the classic cape and tux. Unfortunately, Renfield proves to be too bumbling and imbecilic to make for a worthy minion, in My opinion, though played hilariously by Peter MacNicol, with the incect-eating propensities and hyena-like laugh.
Van Helsing is portrayed by the brilliant Mel Brooks, who comes off more like a Jewish Rabbi than a professor of forensics and obscure diseases, among his other distinguished titles, including gynecology.
Mina is here depicted as a redhead, while Lucy is a brunette! Usually, it is the other way around, although the actresses are exquisite, as are the voluptuous brides, who can share My canope bed any time!
Jonathan Harker is accurately depicted as a nausiatingly perfidious popinjay, whose naivete' and ingratitude can be frustrating to watch.
Constant hilarity, clever comical inclusions, and beautifully elegant sets typify 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It'. Murphy's Law seems rampant, though Dracula ultimately gets the last word.
Dracula - Dead and Loving It
Starring: Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen two of my all time fav actors! They did not disapoint you in this movie. Who gets the word is the best joke in the movie!
Story:
Dracula is back an buying a house in a new country that does not know he is dracula! And then the funny stuff starts!
With an all star cast it is worth watching!
A must have for all mel brooks an leslie nielson fan!
The cloths in the movie are great! It is like looking back in time! The special effects are great my fav was when dracula was hanging upside down and Renfield trys to hang up side down and falls! There is so many funny stuff in this movie that makes it one of their best! One of the best funny movies ever made!
Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar's soldiers (the other Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works best if you're in a take-it-or-leave-it mood. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Mel Brooks - Gregory Hines Director(s): Mel Brooks DVD Release Date: Released the 14 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The legacy of 1980's Airplane! has lasted a long, long time, as this dopey, 1996 comedy demonstrates. Leslie Nielsen, who has made a fortune starring in most of these intermittently inspired spoof movies, plays a secret agent whose code name is WD-40 and whose supervillain nemesis is the armless General Rancor (Andy Griffith). As the battle rages and the sight gags fly (the entrance to a hospital and sanctuary for nuns reads "Our Lady of the Never-Had-the-Pickle Convent"), WD-40 is aided by the beautiful spy 3.14 (Nicolette Sheridan). As always in these things, there are plenty of parodying references to other movies (Pulp Fiction) and tons of cameos (Fabio, Dr. Joyce Brothers, and such). The funniest stuff takes place in the first few minutes as "Weird Al" Yankovic sings... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leslie Nielsen - Nicollette Sheridan - Charles Durning Director(s): Rick Friedberg DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cleavon Little - Gene Wilder DVD Release Date: Released the 29 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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With the success of There's Something About Mary, the brothers Farrelly would seem to have inherited the dumb-comedy crown from the various talents who made Airplane! and its many descendants: Top Secret!, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!. For the most part, that's true, but as Wrongfully Accused proves, there's a bit of life in the old shtick. Pat Proft, a screenwriter on The Naked Gun series and Hot Shots!, makes his directorial debut with this farce, which stars--surprise, surprise--Leslie Nielsen in a parody of the feature version of The Fugitive. More than that: Proft piles on joking references to a host of other dramas, including Casablanca, Mission: Impossible, and Braveheart. While the persistence of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leslie Nielsen Director(s): Pat Proft DVD Release Date: Released the 22 December 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you were to argue that Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein ranks among the top-ten funniest movies of all time, nobody could reasonably dispute the claim. Spoofing classic horror in the way that Brooks's previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, the movie is both a loving tribute and a raucous, irreverent parody of Universal's classic horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks re-created the Frankenstein laboratory using the same equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for nonstop comedy. The story, of course, involves Frederick... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Wilder - Marty Feldman - Madeline Kahn Director(s): Mel Brooks DVD Release Date: Released the 14 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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