Two bickering journalists are sent to Transylvania because their editor thinks that Frankenstein's Monster is real and that he can be found there. A dumb premise, executed badly.
You can see why this flopped so hard. The pace is leaden and the stars don't look like they are enjoying themselves much. Jeff Goldblum seems particularly subdued. Ed Begley's gurning wouldn't be out of place in one of those bone-idle "Scary/Epic/Whatever Movie" knock-offs. You keep expecting at least a dozen Wayans brothers to leap from the undergrowth, mugging to camera in the way they seem to think is so amusing.
So many potentially funny scenes fall flat, and everything is dragged further down by Michael Richards' clumsy slapstick and inane prop comedy, every scene of which seems to go on too long. In fact, the whole movie may be ahead of its time, as far as cinematic bloat goes. Length over content really is all the rage these days in the cinema and on TV, if you value awards over entertaining the audience. Did Roger Corman teach us nothing?
Okay, Geena Davis looks rather fabulous in "that" outfit, but her part is as weakly written as everyone else's. She's pretty much earning the two stars of this review here.
A serious movie that's awful can be hilarious. A comedy that isn't funny - that's just painful. This is not a serious movie. The essentials of this tale could have been turned into something very entertaining, but we got "Transylviania 6-5000" instead..
You can see why this flopped so hard. The pace is leaden and the stars don't look like they are enjoying themselves much. Jeff Goldblum seems particularly subdued. Ed Begley's gurning wouldn't be out of place in one of those bone-idle "Scary/Epic/Whatever Movie" knock-offs. You keep expecting at least a dozen Wayans brothers to leap from the undergrowth, mugging to camera in the way they seem to think is so amusing.
So many potentially funny scenes fall flat, and everything is dragged further down by Michael Richards' clumsy slapstick and inane prop comedy, every scene of which seems to go on too long. In fact, the whole movie may be ahead of its time, as far as cinematic bloat goes. Length over content really is all the rage these days in the cinema and on TV, if you value awards over entertaining the audience. Did Roger Corman teach us nothing?
Okay, Geena Davis looks rather fabulous in "that" outfit, but her part is as weakly written as everyone else's. She's pretty much earning the two stars of this review here.
A serious movie that's awful can be hilarious. A comedy that isn't funny - that's just painful. This is not a serious movie. The essentials of this tale could have been turned into something very entertaining, but we got "Transylviania 6-5000" instead..