I love how this movie was done. It could have been a Universal Monster movie with Abbott and Costello forced in to be the comic relief but instead its a well made film that ironically turned out to be better than all the other monster mash ups Universal put out in the 40s like House Of Frankenstein and House Of Dracula.
Abbott and Costello are on there A game here, constant joke after joke after joke, all high quality material sure to make you laugh until you cry. The monsters are all played by the best. Lon Chaney Jr. is back as Lawrence Talbot and although played very seriously, Talbot seems to have gone slightly insane from the years of torture the curse of the Wolfman has brought on him, so it does become a little comical at how he warns everyone in every scene that 'a full moon is rising' and how he's going to 'change into a wolf'. Bela Lugosi is back as Dracula and I don't think I need to comment on the performance of the man who basically created the quintessential Dracula. Glenn Strange is the Monster and next to Karloff he's the next best thing, his voice is also as buttery smooth as Karloffs when he speaks (if he speaks that is, I think he gets a line or two in).
Overall, its not the greatest Universal film but at a time when the famous monster were nothing but cheap, B movie entertainment, it was Abbot and Costello that gave them there last taste of the big time, and it is wonderful.
Abbott and Costello are on there A game here, constant joke after joke after joke, all high quality material sure to make you laugh until you cry. The monsters are all played by the best. Lon Chaney Jr. is back as Lawrence Talbot and although played very seriously, Talbot seems to have gone slightly insane from the years of torture the curse of the Wolfman has brought on him, so it does become a little comical at how he warns everyone in every scene that 'a full moon is rising' and how he's going to 'change into a wolf'. Bela Lugosi is back as Dracula and I don't think I need to comment on the performance of the man who basically created the quintessential Dracula. Glenn Strange is the Monster and next to Karloff he's the next best thing, his voice is also as buttery smooth as Karloffs when he speaks (if he speaks that is, I think he gets a line or two in).
Overall, its not the greatest Universal film but at a time when the famous monster were nothing but cheap, B movie entertainment, it was Abbot and Costello that gave them there last taste of the big time, and it is wonderful.