YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Directed by MEL BROOKS Screenplay by GENE WILDER and MEL BROOKS
Of course it's funny.
And of course it's grating, flatulent, desperateall in the best and the worst manner of Mel Brooks. As comic and as film maker, Brooks wants to knock you cockeyed. For a laugh, he will do anything, try anything. He rains gags. After a Brooks bit, audiences can be exhausted; after a Brooks film, there is the lingering feeling of having been pummeled. Brooks is like a young, slightly skittish fighter whose energy compensates for lack of finesse. He...
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