Its a nice parody movie with quite a few good jokes. I think its hard to make these parody movies without being incredibly cheesy and this one does it well. It sometimes gets boring when its staying true to the story cuz we all know it. Gene Wilder is obviously good. Its about the great grandson of Dr. Frankenstein who is also a scientist. He goes to that castle where it all happened and tries to do reanimation again.

Young Frankenstein was one of those 1930's films that seems to grasp the type of comedy that only that of Gene Wilder can create...except it was made in 1974! Originally filmed for black and white the cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld, wanted to give the audience the feel of being in the 1930's. The film captured this by not only originally coming out in black and white but also doing full black fade outs in between scenes and1930's style of opening credits, a rarity for the 1970's. It was amazing to watch a "talkie" comedy filmed as if 30 years older. I believe that in todays Hollywood, filmmakers rely too heavily on special effects and less on the magic of what the film could be.

After "Blazin' Saddles", Mel Brooks has taken parody to a whole new meaning. In "Young Frankenstein", Gene Wilder plays the decedent of the infamous mad scientist who lives in America, and doesn't want to have anything to do with him. After being haggled by a student, a visitor from the old country gives him information left by his uncle. When he goes to Transylvania, the hilarity ensures. He meets Igor(Marty Ingles), along with some other weird characters. I was laughing non- stop. I also liked when after they built the monster(Peter Boyle), the scene with the blind hermit(Gene Hackman) was classic. I laughed the hardest when it came to the lighting of the cigar. The monster got his thumb of fire. In the story, fire is the monster's weakness. With all the characters from the Shelley's novel, this movie is more funny than scary. Mel Brooks topped himself off with this. And it's a keeper. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

'Young Frankenstein' - a film sadly brought back into the public's mind this year due to the sad death of Gene Wilder.It feels wrong to review this film. It belongs to another era, it's comedy was so different to ours now. In some ways that's a good thing, it's certainly more sharper than what we produce today, but there are moments that are dated and unfunny.It's a cult classic though, and you can see why. There are some iconic moments in amongst the run time, and that's why people watch it again and again.As a casual viewer though I couldn't quite buy into the madness in the same way I could with Wilder and Brooks' other project 'The Producers'.