My God -- This movie is a masterpiece.

Mel Brooks already made a spoof of "Frankenstein," "Young Frankenstein" (1974). No reason to do it again. I thought this version was interesting, but a bit too operatic in tone. At least it was a different interpretation from previous versions.

I, personally, disagree entirely. I hated the movie. Well, hated is too strong a word...I can see where Branagh was trying to go with the movie, but I just think it fell flat.

The characterisations were wrong, the angle for the romance was wrong, the angle for the horror was wrong and the general feel of the movie was wrong. This is probably only because I read the book first, though.

The whole point of the novel was to write a horror story. One that was scary. I watched this in my English class and the bit where the creature is created, when it's slipping all over the floor, my whole class was on the floor laughing. It wasn't scary, it was hilarious. And when Elizabeth kills herself after she's been reincarnated, everyone was laughing again (although that might say more about my class than about the movie) because, to be honest, the looks on Branagh's and DeNiro's face's was just classic. "Ahh! The dead girl is...killing herself?". There was not a single moment in the movie were I was freaking out. Branagh seems to think that 'gruesome' means 'horror'.

And, this is just me being nitpicky, but it's actually physically impossible to rip out someone's heart like the creature did to Elizabeth. I get he's super human strength and stuff, but we would have heard her ribs breaking, and lungs being punctured and she would have actually have been alive for about 30 seconds after her heart was ripped out. Plus the skin there is REALLY thick. He wouldn't be able to penetrate it with just his bear hands, he would have had to have cut it first. He got the heart still beating, right, though!

Also, I wanted to punch Victor Frankenstien the whole movie (eep! violence alert...). He was in the wrong mind frame for all of it. In the novel, Frankenstien is portrayed as being sheltered for most of his life and then screwing up the minute he's out of shelter, therefore growing up extremely quickly in a short amount of time. He's depressing and remoseful. In the movie it felt like "Oh crap, I've just created this big scary monster, this is really bad, I've just made the equivelent of Satan...let's go get married, Elizabeth!"

I have to say, though, the "He was my father", line gave me goose bumps. Until the moment passed, then all I could think was Star Wars: "Luke...I am your father!" But of course this is all just my opinion, and I can see how it would be a good movie, if only I wasn't so damn critical...

But, for the record, DeNiro gave up on it as well, about half way through the movie. In the beginning he was really into his character. Then about half way through you could practically see him thinking "Damn...we messed up this movie....I hope my reputation survives this..."

I was really excited when I saw that it was directed and acted by Brannagh, so I actually went into this movie trying to like it. But, in my opinion, Brannagh should stick to Shakespeare.

Wow, I'm being really opinionated today...I'm glad you liked the movie. I only wish I could have, as well.