Good god, Young Frankenstein is dull. Somehow I’ve managed to miss it all these years, but here it is today on Fox Movie Channel so it’s finally my chance. We’re just over an hour into it and I haven’t laughed once. Why this boring claptrap has a reputation as some sort of comic masterpiece is a mystery.
Sorry it went over your head.
Them’s fightin’ words, boy.
:eek:
Oh, my.
I think it’s probably one of the funniest movies in my collection. While I don’t necessarily agree with **Chuck **that it “went over your head” I am sorry that you didn’t find it funny! Only because it’s been a source of many rollicking laughs for me.
I will assume you’re attempting humor, although much like the attempts in YF, it wasn’t funny.
Well, you do have to be familiar with and fond of the the original Frankenstein and its offspring. Otherwise a lot of the jokes don’t make any sense.
I’m with you, Otto.
I think Mel Brooks is rather overrated, in general, personally.
Blazing Saddles made me laugh exactly once (which was once more than Young Frankenstein), and it wasn’t the beans scene, I’ll tell you that.
I’ve seen and like all three of the original Karloff Frankenstein films (Frankenstein, Bride of… and Son of…). Bride is an amazingly witty and funny movie.
I think part of it is that Mel Brooks has a certain kind of schtick. I’ve never been to the Borscht Belt, but that’s what I associate it with. I think the humour is the juxtaposition of the classic Frankenstein story with the Borscht Belt schtick. ‘That would mean he’d have an enormous schwanzstücker!’ Kind of funny if you accept schwanzstücker as a foreign word. More funny if you know what it means. And who ever thought about the Monster’s penis? That adds a layer (heh) too.
I have the DVD in my collection. I have to say that it’s not as funny now as when I saw it as a teenager. But I appreciate the classic references, and it still makes me laugh.
Blücher!
What a set of knockers!
Werewolf?
No, there wolf. There castle.
Frau Blucher! neiiiiiiiiiiigh
“Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you!”
Man, how can you not find this movie funny?!
The only Mel Brooks movie I like is Spaceballs … mostly the parts that he isn’t in.
I too have always found Mel Brooks overrated. And he hasn’t aged well, his movies get more and more lame. (Although I will see the producers on DVD)
I’m laughing right now just remembering certain scenes.
“Vould zee doctor like some brandy before bed?”
“No. Thank you.”
“Some varm meelk, perhaps?”
“No. Thank you, but no.”
“Ovaltine?”
“NOTHING!!”
Cloris Leachman’s delivery in that scene is hysterical.
Nope. I’ve never seen any of the original Universal Frankenstein films, and Young Frankenstein is still one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Personally, I blame Fox for Otto’s disappointment. I’m not sure how you could make Young Frankenstein not funny, but if anyone could do it, it would be Fox.
Some people just don’t get comedy genius. Otto is one of them. So Are Tengu and Snooooopy, apparently.
Young Frankenstein is, hands-down, one of the Top 10 comedies of all time.
Agreed. Mel Brooks is a comedy god.
“Wasn’t your hump on the other side…?”
“What hump?”
“What knockers!”
“thank you, doctor.”
Humor is subjective; I found it to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. If you didn’t, that’s your loss, but it doesn’t make it any less funny to me.
They edited out the farting scene in Blazing Saddles. The farting scene! Why? No nekkid people, no curse words…it was funny, dammit!
Interesting. So far, all the posters from California love the movie. Johnny L.A. used to love it, but he’s in Washington now.
No, I don’t think it has anything to do with the water! 
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Class… is… dismissed.
What do you expect ? We are the most enlightened state in the Union. Everybody knows that !