Classic Movie Adventures: Young Frankenstein

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Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein
Teri Garr, Gene Wilder, and Marty Feldman looking wild-eyed in Youn Frankenstein

You can’t make a parody movie this good without loving and respecting the source material. There are tons of scenes that would seamlessly blend right in to the original movies. But the jokes work on their own- knowing the original Frankenstein movies adds some layers, but everything holds up on its own merit.

Also: How did Mel Brooks manage to have Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein come out in the same year?

Today’s fake poster in from a movie about a different abnormal brain.

A poster for Young Frankenstein mimicking the poster for Memento.
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