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| Much superior to Mel Brooks's earlier features. |
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| (John Simon, National Review) |
| Brooks’ most sustained piece of moviemaking - the laughs never let up. |
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| (Pauline Kael, New Yorker) |
| It looks right, which makes it funnier. And then, paradoxically, it works on a couple of levels: first as comedy, and then as a weirdly touching story in its own right. A lot of the credit for that goes to the performances of Gene Wilder, as young Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle as the monster. |
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| (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) |
| Although patchy as all Mel Brooks' films are, it is on balance hilariously funny. But oddly, it is also true in its looney fashion to Mary Shelley's novel. There comes a point when you have to treat a legend with respect. Brooks and Wilder understand that. |
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| (Margaret Hinxman, Daily Mail) |
| The only Mel Brooks film that almost everyone likes. |
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| (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic, 1986) |
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