Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical
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Free Music Review: Just not that good.
Hit: 2 Stars
Sadly, the Young Frankenstein soundtrack is just not good. If you have seen the movie you will know everything that is going on, but because there is so much physical comedy the soundtrack is only laugh out loud funny if you can watch the movie in your head. The singers are winy, intentionally or not, its not nice to listen too. The lyrics are no where near as clever as The Producers in fact the innuendos are so over done its annoying. The only thing that is slightly enjoyable on the soundtrack is Sutton Foster, but even she can't do much. I was so excited to get the soundtrack but after a couple spins I was greatly disappointed. Of course collectors should get this, and maybe if you've seen the show, get this as a souvenir, but otherwise this is a pass. Favorite song (only because its Foster's Feature): "Listen to Your Heart."Free Music Review: Not worth the money
Hit: 2 Stars
At one point I had written a long review in regards to this CD, Amazon didn't like it because they said it included too many "personal opinions" so here is my "New" review:
Orchestration - 2 stars - tinny sounding, karaoke-esque quality
Lyrics - 2 stars - Childish, stretching for rhymes, repetitious, un-funny
Vocal Quality - 3 stars - It was obvious that most of the actors "could" sing but were not used to their ability
Vocal Acting - 1 star - campy, corny, and accents that appeared and disappeared.
Final Review - 2 stars, this is a sad decline in the work of Mel Brooks.
Free Music Review: Disappointing
Hit: 2 Stars
I guess Mr. Brooks wanted to repeat his previous hit (THE PRODUCERS)and emulate the successful parody achieved with SPAMALOT. These intentions have poor results in this musical which makes no honor to the classical movie directed by the same Mel Brooks.The songs are quite dull, the music sounds so old-fashioned and conventional that it seems you've heard all this - and better - before. I had great expectations with this album and I was convinced that the musical would be a sure candidate in the Tony race but, after hearing the album, I understand its absence from the nominees.Free Music Review: Got this as a gift for my cousin
Hit: 2 Stars
When I was growing up, I went to see some of Mel Brook's moviesw, which were too "over the top" to be funny to me. In fact, I thought Brook's stuff was terrible. "Young Frankenstein" to my mind, is no exception. However, I got this as a Christmas gift for my cousin, who likes Mr. Brooks' stiff
Miss Faanchi Liu
Free Music Review: Old, Old...OLD Frankenstein
Hit: 1 Stars
Wow! The dated dreck currently substituting for a score in the new Broadway non-musical "Young Frankenstein" hits a new low for the theater. This is easily one of the worst scores ever to disgrace a Broadway stage and it's hard to fathom how anyone thought this drivel deserved to see the light of Frankenstein's laboratory. Where to begin? Oh yeah, Mel Brooks. His score for "The Producers" was that show's weakest link but with clever staging and two serious star turns, it was rendered amusing if unmemorable. Still, that juggernaut could not sustain the loss of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and was exposed for what it was soon after...light and airy as cotton candy and just as insubstantial. Even that can't be said about this clunker. These trashy and unfunny songs don't produce one memorable moment. Instead, what you get is banal music accompanying some of the most relentlessly offensive lyrics ever to be heard in a professional production. That is, unless you think that Megan Mulally belting out the same crass word about the female anatomy twenty-five times is the height of sophisticated hilarity. The so-called humor would have been DOA forty years ago and sounds like the ramblings of an aging comic like, well, like Brooks. Dated, dated, dated. Most of that "humor", in fact, is lifted en masse from the 1974 movie. It was funny then but lost it's novelty a generation ago. What qualifies as "new" humor (i.e., jokes) on this recording was retro before pen hit paper and you can hear every joke coming a Transylvanian mile away. And just look at the song titles! Many are just the same tired old lines set to music: "Please Don't Touch Me", "Roll in the Hay", "He Vas My Boyfriend"....come on! Not exactly an indication of the creative muse at its peak. How some of Broadway's biggest players got involved with this garbage is unimaginable. Oh, and unlistenable.
The cast might even suffer more than the listener does after being subjected to these humdingers. Sutton Foster, who is becoming a genuine Broadway baby and has been a joy on other recordings, is utterly lost here as Inga and she sounds about as swedish as Julie Andrews. The personality-free Roger Bart is a smarmy and sniveling Frederick, and the very talented Andrea Martin has nothing to play off of. The worst of it goes to Ms. Mulally, who inexplicably interprets Elizabeth like she's a 75 year-old virgin. She also has, uniformly, the worst and slimiest songs in the show. Try getting through "Deep Love" just once and you won't think you can make it. Sorry, you'll have to....it's reprised in the finale (lucky us). Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor only has it better than the rest because the rest have it so bad. Still, these aren't really characters; they're cardboard "types" whose job is to punch the "punch" lines into the back wall of the Hilton Theatre. Be warned: Duck and Cover.
The show is currently staggering across the Hilton in New York eight times a week. Walk, don't run....to your nearest video store and rent the movie instead. It costs less and is more filling.