Young Frankenstein

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Paul & Amy put on the Ritz with 1974's Mel Brooks monster movie parody Young Frankenstein! They ask what makes this the most beautiful of Brooks' films, praise the colorful supporting cast from Marty Feldman to Teri Garr, and chart the increasingly frenzied performance of star Gene Wilder. Plus: That's where "Walk This Way" came from? Next week, Paul & Amy continue their Mel Brooks discussion with Blazing Saddles! You can join the conversation for this series on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

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0:00.0	The year is 1974 and we want to set a give you a podcast that is about everything.
0:06.6	It's about monsters and classic movies and egotism and scientists and oh it's really
0:12.5	above all about Mel Brooks.
0:14.5	The movie?
0:15.5	Young Frankenstein.
0:30.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Unscaled.
0:41.9	I am Paul Sheer.
0:43.0	I am a film enjoyer.
0:45.8	A lover of film.
0:46.9	I have a letter box account and I recently went to town on all the next generation films
0:53.1	on letter box.
0:54.1	I watched them all back to back and had a lot of thoughts.
0:57.3	You write your reviews often for the New York Times and I love reading your stuff.
1:02.2	You are an amazing critic and together we get into discussions here on the show that some
1:08.0	people are like that's what they're focused on and we're like yeah we're going to go
1:12.1	in weird places and today we're going to talk about a movie that I think makes a very
1:18.1	strong statement for being on our list, our best 100 films list.
1:23.7	The Mel Brooks film called Young Frankenstein.
1:26.5	Yeah a film that when people say what is one of the greatest comedies ever made.
1:31.7	This would be the list that they would put on to blast off into outer space balls and
1:36.0	I'm so happy to go back and watch this film.
1:37.8	I am a giant, jean welder obsessive.
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