If this is your first time, you shouldn’t go into a screening of Young Frankenstein expecting nonstop laffs. The movie has its funny moments, but much of it is stupid. However, that doesn’t keep it from being charming, and the ridiculous gags are part of the experience: a way to re-encounter the innocent and confused 1970s and one of the decade’s culture-creators, the vaudevillian Mel Brooks. Young Frankenstein’s cast is Seventies through and through, with Brooks’ lovable collaborators Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and Madeleine Kahn camping it up. – Brant Bingamon
