The Bride
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Movie Reviews of The Bride
Movie Review: Kitch at it's best, but boring in parts
Summary: 3 Stars
I have always ADORED Sting, so I saw this when I was a little girl and Police fan and LOVED it. However, I recently saw it again and noticed that it didn't hold up too well. A little slow in parts. I still adore Sting, so it is worth watching just to see him have a great time swishing around in an 80's goth redux of "The Bride of Frankenstein." If you liked him pissed of and yelly in the Hi-tech diaper in "DUNE," you'll like him here too.Movie Review: pleasing to look at..
Summary: 3 Stars
I mean - Sting and Jennifer Beals together on the same screen? Forget about it. Not the greatest movie ever, but nice to look at. I actually saw this in the theater. The SECOND movie that Sting gets killed in!Movie Review: Elegant but empty and unnecessary
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is quite obviously intent on being a "serious "version of the Frankenstein story .It comes across as dull and earnest and is marred by an excessive pomposity in script and overall treatment .In striving to be weighty it merely comes over as dull and stilted
Baron Charles Frankenstein (Sting)has already created his male creature (Clancy Brown)when the movie starts and he is looking to make a mate for him ( Jennifer Beals) .As she is brought to life the laboratory explodes and she is carried to safety by Frankenstein who wrongly assumes that the male has perished in the fire .Quite obviously the good Baron has improved his skills considerably between making the male creature and building the woma -he is the archetypal Frankenstein monster while she is a stunner .He decides to keep her for himself and raise her as a sort of Pygmalion experiment -he will create an educated , independent ,free spirited "new woman" (rather like Mary Shelley the author of the source novel).He names her Eve -the first woman- and tells her that she is an amnesia victim he found wandering in the nearby woods .
The movie proceeds to cut between Eve and the male monster .He has escaped from the fire and is wandering the roads where he meets a dwarf (David Rappaport)and they strike up a friendship eventually joining a circus and becoming moderately successful and the monster assumes the name Viktor .Things go wrong when the dwarf is murdered and Viktor takes it upon himself to avenge his death and is forced to go on the run.The two creations gradually find their way to each other and even develop a telepathic link with one amother and events move to a violent climax
I suspect this would like to think of itself as a message movie specifically a feminist movie.Eve does learn to think for herself and defies her creator but only to the extent of wanting another man -a dashing youung soldier rather than him.The other message is not notably profound either-Dont tamper with Nature .In short the standard horror movie schtick
The movie is badly acted .Sting resembles a block of wood in period garments and as for Ms Beals !Well -I did wonder about Frankenstein trying to animate her because no director has managed to do so in any of her movie roles so far.In the words of the Sex Pistols song "We're all pretty ,we're so pretty.we're all pretty vacant"The best scenes are those between Brown and Rappaport which are both funny and moving
The score by Maurice Jarre is excellent -lush and romantic -as is the art direction by Michael Seymour .In an way they sum up the movie -nice to look at but with more pretnsions than actual substance
Movie Review: hmmmmmmmmm
Summary: 2 Stars
Best as i remember; back in the day, SNL has a segment called "bad theater", in which Leonard Pinth Garnell (ala Alastair Cook)would present a short production- and then reassure the audience, "Now, that wasn't too good, WAS it?"
One such production was a musical based on the life of 17th century Dutch Scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
After watching part of "The Bride", I think I can revisit the Leeuwenhoek show with a more generous attitude.....
Movie Review: ONE THUMB UP ONE THUMB DOWN!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a strange movie that is really like watching two different movies going on at the same time. The lively scenes with the Monster and his new found little friend are very engaging but, the scenes with Sting and his ready made bride will bore you to tears! It's a shame as this could have been much better, if the script would have had more to offer in the talky scenes. One of the better depictions of The Frankenstein Monster since the original series though.