DVD Review: This movie was pretty good, but it was misleading.

Film

As tribute to their efforts, the film never appears modern and always maintains the desired moody, gothic feel. Even after seeing the film for the umpteenth time, it makes you crack up over and over again and the humor never wears off. The film is never shallow, and generally stays away from really cheap jokes. The film would be nowhere nearly as good without the absolutely splendid acting of its cast, who carry the humor. It is hard to put into words but you have to see the full-bodied acting the cast puts in to this film to appreciate the depth Young Frankenstein has. As a matter of fact, it redefines the term comedy to an extent, because films like Young Frankenstein just arent made anymore these days. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, and many of the films marvellous jokes and one-liners will be sticking around your head forever, together with the superb images Mel Brooks is conjuring up in this film.

Movie

Brooks and his cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld successfully employed a series of traditional movie making techniques in order to match the visual style of the films of the era. It brings together the single pieces of the film and, like glue, ties them firmly together for an involving movie watching experience.

Movies

Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks and Gene Wilders homage to the classic Universal Frankenstein movies and filmmakers of silent horror movies like Lang, Dreyer and Murnau.

Commentary

The film comes fully dubbed in English, French, and Spanish with optional English subtitles and also contains an exceedingly entertaining and informative commentary track by director Mel Brooks. Every time you want to change to a different language track or the commentary track for that matter you will have to go through the discs main menu, which can become somewhat tedious. The DVD set comes with many extras, and I think the best is the feature-length commentary by director Julie Taymor. There's so much attention to detail that one needs to view this multiple times (and then, yet another time with the commentary) to take in everything. This commentary is lively and fun, as the filmmakers mock the film's plotholes and bloopers yet provide many interesting tidbits on the production. This commentary can only be heard with the Special Edition.

Still, this is a DVD review, not a film review, so I won't go into a full analysis of the film.