This was another entertaining Mel Brooks farce, a la Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. If you liked those, you'd like this.

Peter MacNichol almost steals the show in this film as "Renfield." He just drives me buggy. Leslie Nielsen, who revived his career later in life playing goofy roles, also is very good, this time as 'Dracula." Actually, I thought he was far better in here than in those other spoofs, such as the "Naked Gun" series. It may be his best comedic role.

The two women in here, Amy Yasback and Lysette Anthony, are beautiful, and well-endowed as Brooks - and a lot of us guys - likes 'em. They are in the film for their looks while the other two provide the laughs.

Story-wise, it's just a light-hearted look at the story of Dracula, told many times in the films, mostly in the serious vein (pun intended) except for "Love At First Bite" which was similar in laughs to this. After watching this film, I could never look at garlic or blood the same way!

When you need some good laughs and nothing else, this will fill the need for an hour-and-a-half.

This Dracula spoof has many original laughs along the way. After all the recent Vampire movies it's even more funny.

Typical Mel Brooks humor is laugh out loud and crude. The cast is good including Amy Yasbeck as Mina and Leslie Nielsen as Dracula. Mel himself plays Van Helsing. Peter Macnicol is good too as Dracula's helper. Love the mock English accents and the way they pronounce "Lucy".

It's not as original as Young Frankenstein or as ribald as History of the World but it's got enough laughs. Surprised to find out it had bad reviews and wasn't a hit. Definitely worth a watch. I am a Mel Brooks fan and this one is about in the middle of the range.

In 1893, London solicitor Thomas Renfield (Peter MacNicol) arrives in Transylvania and gets turned by Count Dracula (Leslie Nielsen) into his minion. They travel to London where Renfield is thrown into an insane asylum. Doctor Seward (Harvey Korman) is the administrator and his daughter Mina (Amy Yasbeck) is the psychiatrist. Jonathan Harker (Steven Weber) is her fiance. Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Mel Brooks) is called in when their friend Lucy Westenra (Lysette Anthony) shows up with strange bite marks.

Mel Brooks is spoofing Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Dracula movie. The biggest joke is probably the hair although the shadow is the funnier. I think the problem is that Leslie Nielsen is in the wrong role. His best comedic move is doing and saying ridiculous things with a deadpan delivery. As Dracula, he is forced to ham it up. He's perfectly fine doing that but he should be better as Van Helsing. He could make the character like a bumbling Insp. Clouseau or Frank Drebin. This falls a bit flat.