Dracula: Dead and Loving It (DVD)

This movie is too funny. Anything with Leslie Neilson from back in the day is just too good and funny. I recommend you give it a watch.

Watched this movie with the girlfriend, who has a habit of going to sleep on most movies. Not this time. Mel Brooks has given us a real winner. The movie's comedy stems from the fact that in many places it feels like a genuine Dracula movie. Some of the scenery is gorgeous and could be in a a genuine horror film. Most of the acting is "straight." Just when you get comfortable with the movie and it seems to be cruising along as expected, Leslie Nielsen does something genuinely stupid and the wheels come off the cart. It never verges on true horror, but it's just serious enough that when something goes wrong it seem genuinely funny. Still laughing about it several days later. If you're on the fence, my advice is to give it a shot. It made me and my girlfriend laugh.

Funny movie

Dead and Loving It is a masterpiece, with pivotal acting that would have made any hollywood agent salivate. The scene in the anatomy college class is fantastic and hilarious, and well, let's just say the bedroom scene with the two draculaen brides attacking Renfield at the Transylvanian castle made a rise in my Levi's. Peter MacNicol in the role of Renfield is an absolute riot when you realize he's played other roles such as in Numb3rs, 24, and Boston Legal. Steven Weber is perfect as the victorian prude English twit who accompanies the film as Harvey Korman's assistant at the asylum. Harvey Korman is over the top doing a wonderful job in his role, and of course Mel Brooks is outstanding - especially the competitive dialogue with Leslie Nielson trying to get in the last word. Leslie Nielson should have received multiple awards for his acting, and I can't imagine anybody else being able to be so ideal for that role. Amy Yasbeck and Lysette Anthony are exceptionally fitted in their roles as English upper crust elite women who have no idea they are so appetizingly stunning. The story unfolds with smooth delivery, hilarious beyond my expectations, giving me every wonderful emotion and enrapturing eyefuls of great scenery, great architecture, attention to detail in faithfulness to Dracula story telling, and yet I nearly ended up on the floor a dozen times laughing hysterically. This is a wonderful addition to anybody's comedy collection, and even fits as a keeper for Dracula fans. I recommend this DVD to anybody who appreciates sarcasm, irony, wit, slapstick, and personally feel this is Mel Brook's finest effort above all the rest. Definitely 2 thumbs up - way up.

I missed this one in the cinema, but being a enthusiastic Mel Brooks fan, I hardly hesitated when i learned that this film had been released on Blu-ray in the US. There is the usual proviso that you'll need a multi-region player to enjoy the disc, as it is Region A locked. If you do have one of those and like Mel Brooks films, then this is worth a shot. Although not nearly as good as: Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein; Silent Movie; The Producers (the original); and History of the World Part One, this movie is still full of laughs and crazy gags. The production is lavish and the film looks, and sounds, good. Leslie Nielsen is quite brilliant in the role of Dracula. Mel Brooks plays Van Helsing and the cast is full of actors from previous films by Mel Brooks; amongst them the quite wonderful Harvey Korman. Also look out for Anne Bancroft right at the beginning as an old gypsy woman. The disc comes with a commentary track with Mel Brooks, his 2 co-writers and actors: Steven Weber & Amy Yasbeck. Two featurettes: Mel & his Movies; & The Making of Dracula: Dead and Loving It; together with 2 trailers and some TV Spots, rounds of this presentation. As I said earlier: Not Mel Brooks finest, but there is still plenty of laughs to be had.

Let me say at the start that it's the perfect (and required) companion-piece to Mel's own classic, "Young Frankenstein." That said, I have to admit - this movie grew on me. When it first came out in 1995 I was still in the military and, though a great fan of Mel's films, I didn't have time to go see it. Given it's evident lack of theatrical success, it was available on VHS shortly there after and I rented it from a local video store. At first, it was amusing, but not much else. However, my local renter gave me two weeks to review it and, as I watched with more attention to detail, I grew to appreciate it's comic genius. Others have written that it's a salute to Universal's 1937 classic "Dracula." It's all of that, but much more. It mocks elements of Frank Langella's sexy 1979 "Dracula," but the most obvious parody is Francis Ford Coppola's much more pretentious "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Much of the dialogue is lifted, verbatim, from Universal's "Dracula," but given a new twist. For example the theater scene where Leslie Nielsen, as Dracula, attempts to contact Dr. Seward (played by Harvey Korman) and, before entering their opera box, instructs the usherette (played by Leslie Sachs) to "remember nothing of what I have said" - she takes him at his word and throws open the curtains to only stare at Seward & company and wonder blankly why she's there! Another bit of amusing trivia is the famous stake scene. Steven Weber, playing Jonathon Harker, drives a stake through Lucy Westenra's (portrayed by Lysette Anthony) heart. In the production, no one told Steven that gallons and gallons of fake blood would erupt - and it shows! You can actually see Steven struggle to remember his lines and go on with the show. One other bit of trivia - if there any Cub Scout Leaders out there who've seen this movie, check me out on this. In the Ball Room scene where Mel Brooks (playing Dr. Van Helsing) is decked out in tuxedo, isn't the medal he's wearing on his lapel a "Tiger Cub Leader" scout medal? See it - Buy it - Love it. It's very nearly the last of a genre of humor that can be enjoyed by every generation of your family. From the youngest to the oldest, all will find a reason to laugh.

Alles gut, lustiger film , Verarsche vom Original!

I absolutely love this movie and Amazon is the only place I could find to buy it. Arrived quickly and in excellent condition!

This must be about the funniest film in my collection, and certainly for me the best Dracula film of all time. Every time we play it it has my wife and I upside down & unable to breathe with laughter (and thus in some danger of joining Dracula). You see, it appeals to women too (at least to my Swiss wife - and to the Swiss life is normally a very serious business). The funniest bits? Well, when our hero enters the dark castle, he is greeted by Dracula and his shadow, but they have a disagreement and Dracula & his shadow go off in different directions. Later Dracula is flying at speed anticipating a good drink at Mina's neck, but unfortunately she shuts the window at the last moment - and splat! Or the professor prefers that our hero drive the stake into her body, and very cleverly slips behind a wall. Poor Harker gets about a gallon of blood all over him! If you want a good laugh with those friends of yours with an odd sense of humour, GET THIS VIDEO!

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