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Title: Babbling Brooks
Review: A few interesting ideas here -- including a sequence in which Dracula enjoys a bit of sunshine -- but on the whole, Mel Brooks's shticky spoof of Francis Ford Coppola's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (with visual homages to Universal and Hammer horror) keeps taking the easy way out. The result feels rather like a middling "Your Show of Shows" sketch stretched to about eighty minutes. Leslie Nielsen is miscast in the title role (which really cries out for a Sid Caesar), and only Harvey Korman and Brooks himself seem to understand how this material should be played. Production design looks nice, though.
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