The film is like a parody of Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein which is timeless classic. Young Frankenstein is about a man called Dr Frankenstein or should I say Fronkensteen who inherits his great-grandfather's house in Transylvania, he then meets his servant Igor, or should I say eye-gor. Its discovered that Dr Frankenstein's grandfather was doing experiments on raising the dead, Dr Frankenstein then decides to carry on his grandfathers work.
This film is such a big favourite of mine, I love the fact that its so witty and quick but at the same time its so dramatic and mental. The dialogue between Igor and Frankenstein is electric they just bounce off eachother so brilliantly, Frankenstein is played by Gene Wilder who is such a legend and eloquently spoken man. Igor is played by Marty Feldman who has done loads of work in television. Gene Wilder also wrote the screenplay along with the director Mel Brooks.
Frankenstein also has a wife Elizabeth who is the straight one in this film, as its a comedy they did stick by the rule of funny mad one, funny nice one and as always there has to be a straight one to make it even funnier. Not only that they also stuck by the classic horror, as Frankenstein is traditionally a horror, and traditionally in many horrors theres usually a young woman who's very pretty and quite often screaming. Its traditional but also very modern the humour for me is very quick witted, totally original but also still keeping to the story and the essence of Frankenstein.
Theres not a whole lot negative about this film, as I don't think I've met anyone who hates this film or has anything negative to say about it, its either they've seen it and loved it or never seen it. Its wonderfully written and still remaining true, and plays homage to the Mary Shelley classic. Some of the lines in the film are absolute classics and are crackers. I think it really helped that Gene Wilder co-wrote the screenplay as he does play the title role, and it makes the lines and timing of it all just much more natural.
I strongly urge you to watch this film, as its such a timeless classic film. With Gene Wilder you should definitely own a copy of this film.
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