The best Mel Brooks film with the finest Gene Wilder performance is this near-flawless horror spoof that’s shot in velvety monochrome and pays loving homage to the original Universal monster movies of the 1930s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 5, 2024

In some ways it can now be considered not as satire or spoof, but a continuation of the Frankenstein genre, a connoisseur development or theme-variation not so far removed from the Hammer or Warhol riffs.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 3, 2024

Mel Brooks’ best film -- indeed, it’s one of the greatest comedies ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 30, 2024

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder create something that has never been repeated in the legion of movie spoofs that followed: a real movie with dynamic characters, a story that stands on its own, and a touching undercurrent of pathos amidst the parody.

| Sep 22, 2023

Mr. Brooks has combined the zaniness of Blazing Saddles with the structure of Producers and has come up with a very funny movie.

| Jun 27, 2023

This black-and-white parody of the Karloff classic is the most cinematically assured, coherent and (relatively speaking) tasteful of Brooks's films.

| Feb 10, 2022

It is a comedy in which Brooks takes some creative liberties when it comes to addressing Shelley's work and uses Frankenstein's monster to parody Universal's horror movies with a hilarious and quite entertaining tone. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 12, 2021

Its got wit, its got silliness, and it's chock full of one-liners, all made with love from Brooks. Young Frankenstein feels like a worthy homage.

| Nov 12, 2021

Though it's fueled by memorable moments of dippy lampooning, it also carries on a touch too long; it's quite funny but ultimately not as polished as it could be.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

They don't do comedies like this anymore. Gene Wilder's performance is one for the ages. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2020

Miracles still happen: Mel Brooks has made a funny movie.

| Jul 30, 2020

Young Frankenstein is sharply littered with slapstick humour, double entendre meanings and witty dialogue, thanks to the efforts of Wilder and Brooks.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2020

It would seem that nothing new or noteworthy could still be gleaned from the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley creation, but Mel Brooks with Young Frankenstein has done just that.

| Dec 9, 2019

What it demonstrates is that for spoof to work, the spoofers must have deep affection for the material out of which they are wringing the wee.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2019

This loopy send-up of classic chiller clichés from Universal's monster heyday is one of director Mel Brooks's best comedies, and it's also one of the genre's most thorough and successful fright film parodies.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Brooks has never been as inspired as in this movie, at the service of the viewer, for whom the seventh art was created. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 24, 2019

Puttin' on the ritz.

| Aug 19, 2019

Cloris Leachman and Madeline Kahn are also a riot in their roles.

| Original Score: A | Apr 3, 2019

The ability of corny and literal gags to land on internationally diverse ears was infectious and heart-warming. It is also one of the most stunning black and white digital restorations I have seen.

| Jan 24, 2019

The dream team of writer/director Mel Brooks and writer/star Gene Wilder know the text, the tropes and the best ways to turn them into comedy.

| Jul 16, 2018