Purely Joyful Movie!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Brilliant and touching

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I do not see how even a horror/thriller fanatic will enjoy this movie. I would give it a miss.

I did not care for this movie, but that could be because it just wasn't my type of story. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein and Igor creating the monster, and it focuses primarily on the events leading up to the creation of the monster, with only the last few minutes dealing with the monster itself. If you like Daniel Radcliff you may like this movie. Personally, I saw him as Harry Potter through the whole film. The movie was heavy on story, but I personally felt the story was "meh"... That could be biased, however, since I like comedy and/or action mixed in with the story quite a lot, and this was lacking in both. In any case, this movie was not for me, but it could be good for someone who likes the time period, likes stories rooted in inter- personal relationships, or Daniel Radcliff.

We all know the story of Frankenstein. Or at least we think that we do. I've read the novel, and seen a number of movie versions (some faithful to the novel, some not). Paul McGuigan's "Victor Frankenstein" branches the story out, telling it from Igor's point of view. It's odd, since there was no assistant in Mary Shelley's original novel, least of all a hunchbacked one. But here we get Igor's backstory and how he came to know the doctor whose name is synonymous with bad science, and how they set about animating a dead body.Unfortunately, much of the movie is sort of silly. Although I liked how the depicted the police inspector as a hardcore Christian fanatic who considers science a form of witchcraft - sounds like a lot of Christians today, doesn't it?* - the movie goes too far on CGI. This isn't something of which Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy should be proud. It's not a bad movie, but it shouldn't be your first choice. "Young Frankenstein" is the best adaptation ever.*A strange irony is that so many of the religious people who denounce science as witchcraft or something similar have no problem using all of life's modern conveniences, all of them based on science.

Finally got around to seeing this one. This is a cautionary tale, a re-imagining if you will of a classic tale that we all know. I, as many, found fault in how long it takes to see the actual creation of Frankenstein, and that really is a shame. I think the movie takes too long in general to get to the creation of any sort of monster. I think that is why I cannot rate it a 10. This is a good film, but it doesn't seem to be the movie anyone would expect it to be. Daniel slays as Igor and James as Victor, however this movie gets in it's own way and is more often then not just plodding along at a snails pace. The idea was there, this movie could have been a 10 star film, but the execution was messy and incompetent and this is to the films detriment. I rated it as I did because I see a brilliant idea and great actors, it's not the actors fault that they were ultimately trapped in a movie taking way too long to reach its precipice.