Dracula - Dead and Loving It
by Mel Brooks
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Actor: Amy Yasbeck, Leslie Nielsen, Lysette Anthony, Peter Macnicol, Steven WeberDirector: Mel Brooks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: C2700
Studio: Castle Rock
Product features:
- A comic reinvention of the Bela Lugosiic 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 Rating: PG-13 Ag
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DVD Review: The children of the night... what a mess they make
Summary: 4 Stars
Vampires -- they don't get made fun of nearly as much as they should. I adore the undead, but there's just SO much to joke about.
Fortunately, writer/director Mel Brooks took up the challenge in "Dracula - Dead and Loving It," a deliciously barbed spoof of movies about Count Dracula, including Hammer Horror schlockfests and that horrible Coppola movie. Sure, it's no Young Frankenstein but it is a big coffin-full of laughs and goofy running jokes... and yes, it's way more entertaining (and scarier!) than Twilight.
Real estate agent Renfield (Peter MacNicol) comes to deepest Transylvania to sell Carfax Abbey to Count Dracula (Leslie Nielson). However, after Renfield has a weird experience with some seductive women ("WRONG ME! WRONG MY BRAINS OUT!"), Count Dracula turns him into a gibbering bug-eating loon.
And soon after the Count arrives in England, the seductive Lucy Westenra (Lysette Anthony) starts suffering from blood loss, which is apparently connected to two tiny marks on her throat. Dr. Seward (Harvey Korman) calls upon the renowned Dr. Van Helsing (Brooks), who decides that Lucy has been bitten by a vampire... just in time for her to drop dead.
Sadly, this isn't the end of the affair, as Lucy has returned from the grave as one of the undead, and Count Dracula has turned his sights on her friend Mina Murray (Amy Yasbeck). The only way to save her is for Van Helsing, Seward and her dim-witted fiancee Jonathan Harker (Steven Weber) to set up an elaborate trap for the vampire...
Let's see -- we've got bat poop, "breasts" hair, independently moving shadows, autopsies, garlic, tangos, horny vampire women, hypnosis malfunctions, daymares, insect-eating, and the occasional geyser of blood. While "Dracula - Dead and Loving It" is actually pretty faithful to Bram Stoker's original novel, the main point of the movie is to be as funny as possible.
The beginning is a little dumb for a Brooks movie, particularly during the slipping-on-poop-and-falling-downstairs gag. Come on, Mel, you're better than that! But after Dracula leaves for England, the humor becomes classic Brooks stuff -- gags (the "we have Nosferatu today!" joke), physical comedy (Dracula arises from the coffin... and whacks his head on a chandelier), and funny dialogue ("You will be my bride throughout eternity. We'll share the endless passion of immortal love!" "Oh I can't wait!" "NOT YOU!").
And there are plenty of pokes at Victorian mores ("Let me show you the deep, raw passion of unbridled sexual frenzy!" "But Lucy... I'm British!"). Man, this stuff is funny -- and the hilariously ironic ending is perfect.
As for the acting, it's as good as you'd expect -- Leslie Nielson is hilarious as the long-suffering bloodsucker who has to deal with some really dumb people, and Brooks is excellent as the vaguely competent Dr. Van Helsing. There are also some hilarious performances by Weber as the repressed Jonathan, Korman as the enemy-happy Dr. Seward, and MacNicol doing his best impression of Dwight Frye ("Master, master... I mean, mister mister!").
"Dracula - Dead and Loving It" is not quite AS funny as it could have been, but after a shaky start it's full of vampiric laughs and spoofery. Ignore "Vampires Suck," and enjoy this instead.
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