Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
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What critics compared Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to
Of course, Kenneth Branagh’s insane 1994 adaptation, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, probably hewed closest to the novel, and that movie and this one share a similarly frantic, gothic-romantic expressionism.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1 ¾ stars, 1994, directed by Kenneth Branagh)…
After so many versions of this story that dwell on the monstrous aspects, including Hammer’s The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and other offerings, or even those that attempt to give the Creature dimension, such as Branagh’s zippy Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), most feel surface-level at best.
…the film retains a lumbering Classics Illustrated quality, compounded by the running time of two-and-a-half hours, even longer than Kenneth Branagh’s disastrous 1994 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
He is not the egotistical showman of Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
It has been 31 years since the last major Hollywood adaptation of Shelley’s acclaimed work, Kenneth Branagh’s poorly-reviewed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
Cue grisly surgery footage, blasts of gothic organ on the soundtrack, and the queasiest rebirth-of-the-flesh scene since that bit in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein where Kenneth Branagh and Robert De Niro splashed around in amniotic fluid like it was baked beans on Double Dare.
…but differs from Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 Coppola-produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein only as a deluxe nerd fantasy with old-fashioned roadshow movie sets and compositions.
I’ve seen countless takes on Frankenstein and for me, this is the closest someone has ever gotten to the iconic Universal takes, which are also lovingly and countlessly referenced in this film.
…his Frankenstein is far removed from the 1931 James Whale version, perhaps something closer to Kenneth Branagh’s gleaming 1994 film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which featured Robert De Niro as the creature…
Up to this point, the most serious attempt at a straight adaption has been Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” a misguided disappointment on all accounts thanks to the director’s runaway ego.
It’s not steampunk porn like Poor Things but differs from Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 Coppola-produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein only as a deluxe nerd fantasy…
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It seemed the director, who had turned “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” into a bombastic opera, had been tamed.
When re-imagining Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1994, he not only wore these three hats, but also wedged in a sequence where his mad scientist races around a laboratory shirtless.
It’s not that he needs to be boring; his over-dramatic style has frequently bettered his worst efforts, like the unintentional homoeroticism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein .
But Branagh’s worst adaptation is undoubtedly his Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which butchered a perfectly good Gothic plot.