Review #197: Young Frankenstein (1974)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #52: Young Frankenstein (1974) I've seen this film before, but it was about twenty years ago. I remember thinking it was hilarious, I've heard other people talking about how funny it is (even very recently, since it was Gene Wilder's birthday a couple weeks ago), and I was fully prepared to gloss over the fact that this is yet another non-horror film on this bucket list of horror films, because hey, this one isn't really trying to be a horror film, it's obviously a comedy, just one styled after a classic horror film. But the problem is... I really didn't find this movie funny. Like, at all. Every single joke I saw coming from a mile away, and half of the time they commented on the joke right afterward or did a victory lap to make sure the audience knew there was a joke there. In my opinion it would have been so much funnier if Igor's hump changed sides once in a while,...