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Topic	Board 8 Watches and Ranks Satire Films: The Ranking!
BetrayedTangy 03/02/23 4:46:42 PM #53:	Karo The marginally funny comic duo run afoul of the old Universal movie monsters, but despite the title they do not actually meet Dr. Frankenstein. So the thing is they are delivery guys or something who receive some very sus packages from Europe and we are treated to lots of repetitive and highly telegraphed jokes. Wow, Costello sees monsters and Abbott doesnt believe him. Again and again and again and again and again. That is the entire movie. The silly plot sees Count Dracula trying to revive the Creature for 'reasons' while being hunted down by the Wolfman (also for 'reasons'), though everyone's true goal seems to be just to troll Costello with ineffectual monster gags. Its basically just scooby-doo with lame and annoying characters and inconsistent werewolf hijinks that are written by someone that doesnt understand how moon phases work. Please have A & C meet some 80's slasher character next so they can be hacked to pieces and I will never have to sit though another one of these. plasma Unpopular opinion time: Comedy and horror go together like chocolate and spaghetti sauce. Sure, there are some exceptions (Tucker & Dale comes to mind), but A&CMF is the epitome of everything I hate about genre mashups. Here, the comedy is constantly neutered by the horror elements, and the horror itself never grows teeth because the heroes arent allowed to die or suffer meaningful injuries. My most hatedHATEDhorror cliche is the Selectively Dangerous Villain, and this film contains an army of them. Honestly, Im not sure what Abbott and Costello were afraid of. The Wolfman spends the entire film swatting at empty air, the Frankenstein monster lumbers around aimlessly, and Dracula would rather transform into a bat than bite someone right in front of him. Its garbage. All of it. And dont even get me started on that scene where Dracula opened and closed his coffin for what felt like twenty minutes straight. Is there anything positive I can say about this movie? Well, Abbott and Costello have a sort of Jerry Seinfeld/George Costanza chemistry, and I liked that. I actually enjoyed the opening scene and other segments when the duo wasnt fleeing from toothless monsters. So I guess you could say that the problem here isnt Abbott and Costello. Its the fact that they meet Frankenstein. F Outlier Rankings Gavs: 23 Mythiot: 19 Suprak: 16 forty: 9 Poke: 8 plasma: 7 Inviso: 7 Karo: 2 Johnbobb: 2 Tangy: 2 --- https://www.backloggery.com/betrayedtangerin <cite>BetrayedTangy posted [p:971911990] in Board 8 Wa... [t:80364077]...</cite> <quote>KaroThe marginally funny comic duo run afoul of the old Universal movie monsters, but despite the title they do not actually meet Dr. Frankenstein.So the thing is they are delivery guys or something who receive some very sus packages from Europe and we are treated to lots of repetitive and highly telegraphed jokes. Wow, Costello sees monsters and Abbott doesnt believe him. Again and again and again and again and again. That is the entire movie.The silly plot sees Count Dracula trying to revive the Creature for 'reasons' while being hunted down by the Wolfman (also for 'reasons'), though everyone's true goal seems to be just to troll Costello with ineffectual monster gags.Its basically just scooby-doo with lame and annoying characters and inconsistent werewolf hijinks that are written by someone that doesnt understand how moon phases work.Please have A & C meet some 80's slasher character next so they can be hacked to pieces and I will never have to sit though another one of these.plasmaUnpopular opinion time: Comedy and horror go together like chocolate and spaghetti sauce. Sure, there are some exceptions (Tucker & Dale comes to mind), but A&CMF is the epitome of everything I hate about genre mashups. Here, the comedy is constantly neutered by the horror elements, and the horror itself never grows teeth because the heroes arent allowed to die or suffer meaningful injuries.My most hatedHATEDhorror cliche is the Selectively Dangerous Villain, and this film contains an army of them. Honestly, Im not sure what Abbott and Costello were afraid of. The Wolfman spends the entire film swatting at empty air, the Frankenstein monster lumbers around aimlessly, and Dracula would rather transform into a bat than bite someone right in front of him. Its garbage. All of it. And dont even get me started on that scene where Dracula opened and closed his coffin for what felt like twenty minutes straight.Is there anything positive I can say about this movie? Well, Abbott and Costello have a sort of Jerry Seinfeld/George Costanza chemistry, and I liked that. I actually enjoyed the opening scene and other segments when the duo wasnt fleeing from toothless monsters. So I guess you could say that the problem here isnt Abbott and Costello. Its the fact that they meet Frankenstein. FOutlier RankingsGavs: 23Mythiot: 19Suprak: 16forty: 9Poke: 8plasma: 7Inviso: 7Karo: 2Johnbobb: 2Tangy: 2 --- https://www.backloggery.com/betrayedtangerin</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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