Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

What makes it different from others?

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Maybe it's just the English major in me, but it was really fun to see a more faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. Kenneth Branagh does make some changes, of course, but he also brings out the true, grotesque horror of the original story. Plus, it had enough corsets and doublets to keep my wife happy. This is a unique and interesting film.

I certainly thought this movie got close to being good, especially near the end. Fr the most part however, it wasn't that memorable. I really do like Robert DeNiro as Frankenstein's monster. I didn't recognize him at all! The movie starts with Victor Frankenstein going to the North Pole. Wait, I thought this was a Frankenstein movie, not a Santa Claus movie! We see all the events that led up to this.It seems to take too long for the monster to appear. I have never read the original novel, but I did read this play version and it seems to be pretty faithful. The full title IS "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". For some reason, I thought it was just called "Frankenstein". It definitely has its good points and I guess if you're bored, you can watch it. It's just not too good. **1/2

Evaluation that it made too much contemporaryly is a little bad but I do not think this is a bit ... Anyway, this movie is a rare outstanding work making use of circular work literature as it is ... Doctor who created a monster will be faithful to its duty.De Niro who came out on the monster showed really nice performance. Feeling I threw myself Monster begins very miserable revenge, the process was entirely somututo. But in the end they all leave everything and then leave somewhere and appear again... The scene I will not forget is the scene that my father, he did not give me a name ... suddenly become very sad. But, in the end, Frankenstein is feeling that the world without his father feels that hecan not exist and disappears again. ..The scene where I feel that there is no meaning in the world without my father who created myself as just one human, not the last multiple destroyers, was really good. It is a highly recommended work ...

Not sure what was on Branagh's mind here, but casting De Nero as the monster was way off beam, and the make-up didn't really work. When you know the face of the young Don Corleoni us under that mask you are just waiting for the next smart remark. Thankfully he avoided the excessively philosophically thinking, eloquent and educated monster that was utterly incredible in the original book, but the one moment of reflection between him and Frankenstein in the ice-cave simply did not ring true. There was a poor understanding of the big screen. And some ridiculously comic moments that were too staged. See Bonham Carter running across the lawn to meet Frankie's horse, just makes you ask why he did not ride up to the house? Then after the monster has harvested the field of turnips, the camera pans to De Nero's face in - to let us all know who did it - just looks so pantomime and silly. But the worst thing is that Branagh seemed to use any excuse to get his shirt off. This was a six-pack too far.