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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780646636
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780646630
Label: Castle Rock
Manufacturer: Castle Rock
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Castle Rock
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 3217
Studio: Castle Rock
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1995
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Product Description:
A comic reinvention of the Bela Lugosi classic about a Transylvanian vampire who works his evil spell on a perplexed group of Londoners. Mel Brooks's Count is a pratfalling evil prince of a guy who believes in long relationships. Brooks portrays vampire hunter Van Helsing who won't give a bloodsucker an even break.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 053939270020
Amazon.com:
In 1995, it was promising to hear that Mel Brooks was creating "the companion piece to Young Frankenstein." He had also brought in the heavyweight of deadpan--Leslie Nielsen. As Lt. Frank Drebin in the Police Squad movies, Nielsen has no peer for silly stuff--just the player Brooks would seem to need for a strong movie, as any fan of Brooks perpetually hopes a new film may rekindle his madcap magic. Alas, the end results in Dracula: Dead and Loving It include a sprinkling of amusements and one big belly laugh. Brooks and his writers use a very tight adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but the spoofs can be spelled out as we go, as if they are paint-by-number. Some are jabs at Coppola's version of Dracula, but most are attached to classic Dracula films. If any real pleasure comes from the movie it's thanks to the efforts of the cast. Peter MacNicol plays the crazed Renfield to the letter, Steven Weber has a good time as the tight British Harkin, and Lysette Anthony charms as the doomed Lucy. Brooks and Nielsen ham it up just fine. There's even a surprisingly controlled performance by Harvey Korman (a character spoofing Anthony Hopkins's role in the misfire The Road to Wellville). As with Brooks's period comedies, the film looks better than it needs to and includes a few tricky special effects for good measure. This has nothing to do with the audience laughing--we need bigger jokes. And when you double over laughing in one scene--involving a stake through the heart and a bucket of blood--you want the movie to achieve Brooks's days of glory, when hearty laughter was the norm, not an isolated moment. --Doug Thomas
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Rating:  -
How can the other 94 reviews on this site give this movie an average of 4 stars?!! At best, it is a two star movie experience and that is being very generous. Dead and Loving It only rates the second star because it is a rather good looking movie and it has a good cast. What it doesn't have is many funny jokes. That Mel Brooks wrote and directed this is hard to believe and it is far down on the list of his best work. Someone here compared this favorably to his (and Gene Wilder's) "Young Frankenstein." ... Read More
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So says priggish, prudish Solicitor Renfield (Peter MacNichol . . . brilliant) to the two (very) female vampires who enter his bedroom in Dracula's (Leslie Nielsen; need I say more?) castle, when the ladies (?) proceed to rub various areas of their attractive (but fully clothed)anatomies against various items of said furnishings.
Before this, Renfield has encountered a Gypsy woman (Brooks' late wife, Ann Bancroft) who has warned him about vampires and given him a cross necklace to wear, all the ... Read More
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Best movie L. Nielsen can ever dream of acting in... haha
Seriously, one of the best comedies ever done
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I've always been a fan of Mel Brooks, and with singular exceptions, I've enjoyed almost all of his films. This is one enjoyable film. I think that the film follows the book a little more closely than the Lugosi version did, but it's really played for laughs. The music is good, the effects are well done, and everyone does a fine job in keeping straight faces throughout. Brooks's humor is not for everyone, because it tends to border on the ribald side. I find that a "plus" in this film, because that tends to lighten ... Read More
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Had this in VCR format and my daughter wanted the DVR for Christmas. We love this movie. Fun and lighthearted.
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