I really wanted to like this -- certainly the theme is near and dear and I don't mind broad humor.
But I found this a painfully tedious waste of a talented cast. Right about the time one of the characters says "This film must be destroyed" I reached for the fast forward... Needless slapstick and endless labored jokes about provincial Transylvanians.
The sad thing is that I like just about everybody in the cast. Geena Davis looks cute in her Vampirella outfit (and provides the film's only dramatic tension as we watch for her to pop out of her navel-deep decolletage) but only appears in a few brief scenes. Jeffrey Jones is always fun but had trouble keeping his accent in line. Ironically, the Frankenstein's Monsters looks better than in many another production.
For me, it feels rather like a 60's monster nudie-cutie, without the nudity.
I hope everyone had a nice vacation shooting on location in Yugoslavia.
But I found this a painfully tedious waste of a talented cast. Right about the time one of the characters says "This film must be destroyed" I reached for the fast forward... Needless slapstick and endless labored jokes about provincial Transylvanians.
The sad thing is that I like just about everybody in the cast. Geena Davis looks cute in her Vampirella outfit (and provides the film's only dramatic tension as we watch for her to pop out of her navel-deep decolletage) but only appears in a few brief scenes. Jeffrey Jones is always fun but had trouble keeping his accent in line. Ironically, the Frankenstein's Monsters looks better than in many another production.
For me, it feels rather like a 60's monster nudie-cutie, without the nudity.
I hope everyone had a nice vacation shooting on location in Yugoslavia.