Young Frankenstein
Cast
Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein
Peter Boyle as The Monster
Marty Feldman as Igor
Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth
Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher
Teri Garr as Inga
Rater #2 has Description and Review.
Rater #1
7/10. After having read Rater #2's description of the movie and some urging from people I know, I decided to see this movie. I don't know what I really expected out of the movie.
Gene Wilder stars as Dr. Frankenstein. He played the character wonderfully. His character reminded me of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Gene's behavior in this movie was quite funny at times with the charades and trying to deal with his co-stars
Peter Boyle was really good as The Monster. I felt that he was pretty believeable. Marty Feldman as Igor was hilarious. He would actually act like an assisstant but be very afraid of the castle that he worked in at the same time.
Some of the gags that I saw were pretty funny like the charades. The other one that stuck out in my mind the most was the "3 Years Dead" "2 Years Dead" "6 Months Dead" "Freshly Dead". That was a real killer.
All in all, it was a funny movie and people should see it.
Rater #2
9/10. 1974 was Mel Brooks' biggest year, with Young Frankenstein and
Blazing Saddles releasing. Most people, including me, think that
Young Frankenstein is the better one.
YF starts off with a college class, with Fredrick von Frankenstein
(pronounced Fronk-en-steen), played perfectly by Gene Wilder,
teaching a science class. We learn that his grandfather tried to
reanimate dead beings, and Fredrick doesn't like him. But, he
inherits his grandfather's castle and begins working where his
grandfather left off.
He has to leave his fianc� Elizabeth, played with great snootiness by
Madeline Kahn. At the castle, Fredrick meets Igor (pronounced Eye-
gor) who is played by bug-eyed Marty Feldman. Also, Fredrick meets
Inga, his, ahem, assistant, played by Teri Garr. She is also very
funny. So, Fred gets to work and eventually creates a monster, played
by Peter Boyle.
YF is one of the funniest pictures of all time. Gene Wilder is, as
always, great, while Madeline Kahn, who I adore, plays an equally
great part as Elizabeth. She exchanges great lines with Fredrick, but
so does Inga. Teri Garr is hilarious as his assistant, but I think
the funniest part is Igor. He knows when to joke.
The funniest part of the movie is the charades ("Said a dirty
word!"). Kenneth Mars didn't do anything for me as the mechanical-
armed Inspector Kemp, but the dart scene is pretty funny.
Not as rude as other Brooks' movies, but funnier that them. If you
want to laugh every time you see it, then rent (or even better, buy)
Young Frankenstein.
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #5
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated PG for some language and sex-related humor.
Running time: 108 minutes
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