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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Overrated and overhyped

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Mel Brooks' "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" isn't half as hilarious as his previous horror parody "Young Frankenstein." Indeed, compared with Brooks' masterpiece "Blazing Saddles," Brooks' take on the classic Stoker novel isn't audacious. Nevertheless, anybody who has read Stoker's chiller will see how closely Brooks and "Transylvania 6-5000" scenarist Rudy De Luca along with "Life Stinks" scribe Steve Haberman had followed the novel with their reverent adaptation. Occasionally, particularly when his shadow does different things, "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" is reminiscent of "Bram Stokers' Dracula" with Gary Oldman. Meanwhile, Brooks stakes or perhaps skewers everything in sight. Peter MacNicol is nothing short of brilliant as Renfield, and he rivals Dwight Frye from the Bela Lugosi "Dracula," especially Frye's insane laughter. Like the novel, the story unfolds as the solicitor Thomas Renfield travels abroad from London to Transylvania to sell Dracula a house. When they meet each other at Dracula's castle, Renfield gets tangled up in a huge spider web that Dracula walked through without disturbing it. The name of the place is Carfax Abby. Like "Dracula," Renfield cuts his finger accidentally, but he bleeds far more that Frye did in the original. Suffice to say, MacNicol's Renfield literally gushes. During the voyage to England, we watch as Dracula's coffin slides back and forth during a tempest. Dracula has a difficult time hypnotizing women. He contends with a female usher at the opera house and later has trouble giving the right directions so that Mina will leave her room and join him outside after dark. Several members of the cast are familiar Brooks' actors, including Harvey Korman and Avery Schreiber. Steven Weber is a hoot as Jonathan Harker. When he drives a stake through Lucy's heart, Van Helsing has judiciously stepped behind a curtain so that he won't be baptized by Lucy's blood. Jonathan emerges as thoroughly drenched. "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" was Mel Brooks' last film to direct, and it is often amusing. Leslie Nielson has a field day as Dracula in this lightweight, inoffensive comedy.

Many people seem to have watched this movie based on its connection with Mel Brooks. Brooks was the producer, director, writer and one of the stars, playing Van Helsing. I'm honestly not much of a fan of Brooks, but I do enjoy Leslie Nielsen, who starred as Count Dracula. Nielsen had made quite a name for himself as a comedian in the previous few years in the Airplane and Naked Gun series. But, to me, Nielsen and Brooks have very different styles, and this was clearly a Mel Brooks movie - heavy on slapstick stuff. What made Nielsen so funny in the aforementioned movies was his absolute deadpan style. That wasn't much in evidence here. This was meant to be slapstick silly. And it was. It wasn't the sort of Nielsen comedy I usually enjoy.In fairness, this movie sticks reasonably close to the basics of the story. In that, it's a reasonably well done horror spoof, and the cast all try. My basic problem with it was that, unlike many, I just didn't find it very funny. There were a few chuckles, but nothing more. Your level of enjoyment of this movie will probably depend, like mine, on whether Brooks or Nielsen are your draw. If you like Brooks, you'll like this. If you're looking for a more typical Nielsen style, you'll find something lacking. Maybe, in fact, you'll find a lot lacking. (3/10)

Rating-3/10Dracula: Dead and Loving is a Mel Brooks comedy about well, yeah you guessed it, Dracula. Leslie Nielsen is our blood sucking main man and he dons his best Bela Lugosi cape and accent to boot to create a, memorable performance. Brooks uses his comedic interests well in picking the theme but not in styling the substance, and although I feel many hate this more than I do, I still thought it was pretty bad too. Now don't expect massively over the top jokes, you know the kind where Dracula turns into a bat and hits a window(although that does happen). Brooks seems to create humour which looks promising, but then waters it down for some reason, so that it doesn't fit. Now I'm not saying this isn't funny at it's certain moments, I even dare say I slightly enjoyed this movie(to say it is very poor), the movie has it's laughs and some well timed jokes not to mention crazy characters too.You might think I'd say the funny guy is Nielsen here but in truth my praise if you can call it that is all to Peter MacNicol who as Renfield is hilarious, the top person and thing about this movie. I'm not kidding when I say that Renfield is probably the reason this movie is a whole rating higher, I mean he also works well with Nielsen, the jokes run well between them and even those who are hard pressed to laugh will still I feel laugh maybe a little at MacNicol.Having said all that previously, I do however find this lazy writing and although I felt Brooks directs OK, his skill with the words is not his strongest suit in this case. In the case of the sets, you will only find horrible Hollywood staging that OK OK maybe has something to do with the comedy of It all, still didn't make me laugh. There's actually very little to say about this, in fact I think anyone who can write an essay about this is a hero, it has so little depth to it just becomes another silly joke to be tossed under the pile of films you will only watch once. Now who could I recommend this too?, ah yes those who like silly humour of course. Now Nielsen fans I hate to say that this isn't a patch on Naked Gun or Airplane but you do see some jokes along those kind of slapstick type humour lines. I think it is funny as mentioned, for me it starts to get more funny a little too late but nevertheless is still lazy work and probably too silly most of the time to create a reasonable film.Overall a Mel Brooks comedy that fails to shine, you know the type of movie that never delivers on it's promise of being hilarious, but can have it's moments in the spotlight. Watch out for Renshaw played by Peter MacNicol and a certain scenes with bugs is for me the top scene of this entire thing, in fact you could just cut all the parts out that make you laugh and that would be the best way to watch this movie.

This is one of those movies who has unjustly been underrated by those who do not understand its type of artistic expression and humor.Leslie Nielsen is one of the best actors i have ever seen and he personified Drakula in this comedy movie(which i do not consider a comedy entirely but a horror movie with class) His performance was perfect and the funny scenes were funny but they had the feeling of silly rather then comic.Most of the movie in my honest feelings is not a comedy but a Elegant Vampire movie.It is a deep classic and i am sure that in time it will earn its rightful place in the hall of fame.GREAT!!