It has one or two laugh out loud moments, but most of it is just chuckle worthy. It's more of a satire than a comedy.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Young Frankenstein
Matthew_Moviebuff — 16 years ago(August 20, 2009 11:02 AM)
It has one or two laugh out loud moments, but most of it is just chuckle worthy. It's more of a satire than a comedy.
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The-Evil-Dead — 16 years ago(September 01, 2009 10:03 AM)
There's not a lot of movies out there that can compare to the wit and style this film has. I'm 24 and grew up watching this film because my mom loved it, and it still holds up to this day as one of my favorites. Outside of my own personal bias, I have a hard time believing that someone couldn't consider it one of best comedy flicks out there.
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nobody_nameless — 16 years ago(September 24, 2009 12:49 AM)
I'm going to completely copy my response to another topic, with one or two minor changes now that's comedy!!
I have to agree more with the OP than others. Then again I'm a hard person to make laugh, though I didn't think SpaceBalls was that much better than this. I do tend to agree that the Zucker Bros are a bit funnier, they seem to have more witty "Fletch" type jokes.
Before anyone asks, I'm old as dirt!
I think someone was closer to the truth when they said this movie was more about homage to the older films that it spoofs.
Also, here's a quote from the trivia section for this movie
"..it was considered by all involved to be an abysmal failure. It was only after a marathon cutting session that they produced the final cut of the film, which both Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks considered to be far superior to the original product. At one point they noted that for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat. So they went in and trimmed all the jokes that didn't work."
I felt that probably half of the jokes left in fell flat, but really this isn't much different that Gene and Mel (not much difference between 25% and 13% plus, if you think about it, I might have liked some of the 75% that they cut!)
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thesnowleopard — 16 years ago(October 26, 2009 06:10 PM)
Actually, I like this one better than Blazing Saddles and I laughed pretty hard at that one. YF is not just the homagethat's the icing on the cake that helps set up the humour.
One thing I like about Young Frankenstein more than Blazing Saddles is that YF has a more coherent plot. Everything fits together whereas, in Blazing Saddles, they threw everything at the screen and hoped it would stick. And stick most of it did, but the ending still loses a lot of steam once they explode the fourth wall off the set. Contrast that with YF where all of the sexual tension and innuendo and comparisons between Frankenstein and his creation are sent up in one big blast of "Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life".
It doesn't make Blazing Saddles terrible in comparison to YF or anybody who doesn't like YF some kind of idiot, but it also doesn't mean that, just because someone comes on here and says they didn't laugh (or didn't laugh much), YF isn't a classic or funny comedy.
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dogsoldier_spoon-1 — 16 years ago(October 30, 2009 07:28 AM)
I disagree but then again I almost never laugh out loud when I see a comedy. The ones that do succeed and keep succeeding when I rewatch the film mostly end up being one of my favorites.
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tmf_scipio — 16 years ago(December 11, 2009 10:18 PM)
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen was Kind Hearts and Coronets. It didn't have one "laugh out loud" moment in it, but it was absolutely brillant. Very dry comedy.
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BKinzeys — 16 years ago(February 15, 2010 01:33 PM)
While you can have your own opinion and argue opinions back and forth, in order to be "one of the funniest comedies of all time" if one relies on popular opinion, then by that measure it is, indeed, one of the funniest comedies of all time.
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SeisCinemaSeis — 16 years ago(March 19, 2010 07:59 PM)
That's what I thought the first time I saw 'Young Frankenstein'. But for my own surprise, I found it a lot funnier the second time that I saw it.
Perhaps the reason why I didn't find 'Young Frankenstein' THAT funny the 1st time around is because I went to see it with a lot of expectations since this movie is considered one of the finest comedies ever. Therefore the "hype" played against the movie itself. But the 2nd time around I knew already what to expect, so I could enjoy it for what it is.
Besides the first time I didn't caught several in-jokes and homages to the old Frankenstein movies because I had only watched 'Frankenstein' but not 'Bride of Frankenstein' nor 'Son of Frankenstein'.
The 2nd time around I found it funnier because I had already watched those movies, therefore those "cryptic" in-jokes, now makes sense completely.
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Michael Dorsey — 16 years ago(March 29, 2010 02:07 PM)
I think it is a parody, not satire. And how many movies can actually generate a laugh? I mean a real laugh out loud laugh. YF has such strong gags that it gets me even when I know what's coming to this day after dozens of viewings. I'm just trying to remember them in my head and I'm up to 10 jokes/gags. I like and have watched lots of movies. Some of the funniest movies I've seen recently are The Hangover and Zombieland. They're funny, and I would recommend them, but they're not in the league of YF. And can "funniness" be quantified? It is more a collective opinion by repeat viewers for comedies, as opposed to dramas being more critic/award driven.s
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jlgreenlee — 15 years ago(November 26, 2010 04:33 PM)
Oh, I completely get the expectations being too high thing. Forrest Gump for instance, was so hailed, so glorified that by the time I finally saw it, I was completely underwhelmed. In contrast, if you go in with NO or very low expectations, sometimes you can really appreciate a flick that you may have disregarded (the Nathan Fillion movie, Slither comes to mind).
Of course our enjoyment of something can be influenced by the opinions of others. That's human nature.