7.9? Oh Please! This movie is really bad!
This movie is trash. It's 7.9 rating is ridiculous! This is worth a 3/10 at best.
The half-frame story with Mary Shelley and Byron is completely pointless. And why does Byron always talk like a jackass every time he says any word with "R" in it (and why does Shelley do that too)? Who even does a half-frame story anyway? That's stupid. It should have been a full-frame story, or none. And given that the half-frame story is 100% pointless, it should have been none.
The plot for the first section of the movie does not work at all. An angry mob is out to lynch Frankenstein, which they think they have done successfully. When they find out that they were wrong and he is still alive, they then randomly & telepathically (they don't even communicate their change of plans to each other!) - and for no reason - change their minds and decide not to lynch him any more, and instead to capture him, drag him back to the same town where they all live and that they allegedly want to keep safe, and lock him in a prison cell. This makes no sense whatsoever!
Likewise, when Frankenstein breaks out into town, the very same angry mob who was just proactively hunting him down and attacking him with no fear - randomly and for no reason - turn into cowards who run away screaming! This too makes no sense whatsoever.
The "dead" Dr. Frankenstein magically waking up and being totally fine once the mob happens to have dragged him all the way back to his house is equally ludicrous. We are to believe that every single person in the town is so much of a blithering idiot that they cannot tell the difference between a dead man and an unconscious man? Absurd!
Both mad Doctor actors vastly over-act and hence their performances become extremely hammy. Their acting is terrible and unworthy of a mainstream Hollywood film. All of the same also goes for the old crone woman who never shuts up.
The Burgomaster's cartoonish fake mustache makes him look like a Keystone Cop. There is no way to take him seriously as a believable character.
The "small people in a jar" scene is even more cartoonish & asinine than is the Burgomaster's fake mustache. It seems like the filmmakers randomly decided to make the film play to preschoolers in that scene. Once again, this scene is completely unbelievable.
Frankenstein learns to speak from his blind pal, but he only spends enough time with his blind pal to learn a few words. Yet despite this, later on in the film he knows tons of words that he would not have had enough time to learn, nor the teachers available to teach him. In other words, Frankenstein's miraculously-large vocabulary (relative to the few words that he is actually shown learning in the film) is a gigantic plot hole.
Frankenstein is stated to be a reanimated dead man, yet he is hungry and thirsty and the film strongly implies that he needs to eat & drink as if he were a living human, despite the fact that he is an undead monster. Yet again, this makes no sense.
The music is cheesy & cornball. It does nothing but add to the atmosphere's silliness & cartoonishness.
The movie is titled "Bride of Frankenstein," yet she is only in it for 3 minutes...and all she does during those 3 minutes is scream like a moron. She is treated like an irrelevant & tacked-on afterthought even though the title and many dialogues represent(s) her as the main theme of the film. If this film was really about Frankenstein's "Bride," then she would have had at least half an hour of screen-time. Talk about false advertising! Talk about idiotic title writers/script writers/filmmakers!