Review of Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) by Josh T — 13 Dec 2015

Dracula Dead and Loving It is the last Mel Brooks film ever made, and is also considered the worst. But that's kind of stupid, it's no less funny than most of his other movies, and it's not that Brooks got less funny as time went on, it's that he stayed the same, while society at large moved onto higher brow comedy like pot jokes and jokes about teenagers fucking pies. If you look at this chart you'll notice this downward trend happening with every release up until this film.

This movie is making the fun of Keanu Reeve's Dracula: The Movie and shares a similar plotline. If you haven't seen that film, that's okay, it's about the same in terms of quality, so you can watch either one to get a crappy retelling of the Dracula mythos. In this one, Leslie Nielsen plays the Vampire Lord, and that one dude from Alley McBeal plays a dude who eats progressively more bugs as the movie goes on. There's the standard buxom white babes thing that Mel Brooks loves, and lots of visual gags that will make you laugh pretty good if you're less than ten years old.

TL;DR - 6/10.

This movie is okay if you like Mel Brooks movies. It's not the classic that History of the World or Spaceballs turned out to be, but it's actually not horrible either; and it's nice to see Nielsen and Brooks finally working together.