Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

jacksons-02775 Everyone hates this movie, and i must ask why? i mean, its dull compare to most mel brooks films, but, thats only compared to most. also, there's some really funny moments in this. one of them is in the opening, where peter macnicol says he's looking for dracula, with something with he's schedule, but he pronounces it dumbly, and everyone questions dracula, but one guy is like "SHedd-jew-all?" that was hillarious! there are also some pretty great performances from Harvey Korman, Peter Macnicol, Steven Weber and Leslie Nielsen (all though i find it wierd that an actor known for spoofs only did one movie with the king of spoofs). also, the scene where dracula is trying to get Mina but Essie gets in the way. i also like the jokes with his shadows. people may be thinking "this isn't real mel brooks!" well, he had 100% involvment, also, for the record, it isn't the first time he did a funny version of a film, he did the same with Robin Hood; Men in Tights and Young Frankenstein. however, it is no where near the best, not every joke works and its boring at times, but other than that, i would recomend it.

zardoz-13 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.

willcundallreview 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.

shominy-491-652355 "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" is Mel Brooks' greatest/funniest film ever! Not only is the writing 100% pure genius, but every actor in the film is outstandingly perfect! Mel Brooks is the perfect Van Helsing - so believable yet so hilarious! What can be said about Leslie Nielsen that hasn't been said before? He was a comic genius! The scenery is gorgeous; the music is beautiful; the costumes are unbelievable; every scene is wonderfully perfect! (It's so nice to see a bright, colorful movie instead of the typical black/blue/gray coloring that is overused in dramatic TV and horror films today.) Not only is this movie a perfect comedy but the serious scenes (like Lucy's death) are so sad and heartfelt. Not many films can combine comic genius and deep emotion perfectly. There are so many surprises in this film - we can never tire of watching it. This is one of our very favorite, most "quoted" films ever! Every character is memorable and quotable! Peter MacNicol as Reinfeld = comic genius! Harvey Korman as Dr. Seward = comic genius! Fiancees x 5 years, Mina/Amy Yasbeck and Jonathan/Steven Weber = comic genius! Everyone involved in this film should have won Academy Awards!"Dracula: Dead and Loving It" deserves a much higher rating than 10! (We have the awesome movie poster framed in our living room!)