“Young Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the count who started it all, returns by rail to his ancestral home. As the train pulls into the station, he spots a kid on the platform, lowers the window and asks, ‘Pardon me, boy; is this the Transylvania Station?’
“It is, and Mel Brooks is home with Young Frankenstein, his most disciplined and visually inventive film. Young Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the count who started it all, is a professor in a New York medical school, trying to live down the family name. He is visited by an ancient family retainer with his grandfather's will.
“Frankenstein quickly returns to Transylvania and the old ancestral castle, where he is awaited by the faithful houseboy Igor, the voluptuous lab assistant Inga, and the mysterious housekeeper Frau Blucher. The young man had always rejected his grandfather’s medical experiments as impossible, but he changes his mind after he discovers a book entitled How I Did It by Frederick Frankenstein. Now all that’s involved is a little grave-robbing and a trip to the handy local Brain Depository, and the Frankenstein family is back in business.”
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