As always I encourage the free flow of ideas. Everybody email WB and get them to release a DVD. Get a copy of this, watch it and laugh for the next week. The funniest banter between movie characters is at the beginning of the movie when Renfield identifies Gov't officials by the fact that they wear shoes. Some of the funniest things are unintentional, it is so seventies and it even picks up some of the things that are today clichés about the decade (again it is my man Art). It is full of the most hilarious things ever committed to film (Art Johnson anyone?). I love the story of Dracula coming to "modern" New York, and falling in love with a swinging super model. I cannot escape the Dracula legend (In fact my first and middle name is Christofer Lee) so it only seems fitting that this is my favorite. Say what you would like about Apocolypse Now, the Godfather, the Terminator films, the Alien series, Jaws, Rocky, Casablanca, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or even (gulp) the Star Wars Trilogy, but Love at First Bite is for me the all time greatest movie ever. No way a masterpiece - simply a film which holds very pleasant memories for many people I imagine! Particularly cheerful little ending which adds pep! Always to be remembered for the disco sequence and I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE which still conjures up for me so vividly those dance-floor scenes. The film never really aims to be anything more than what it is - a lightweight romantic comedy with bite, and this becomes it well. The interplay between Hamilton and Benjamin is often priceless. Hamilton as suave and out-of-the-20th-century-loop Count Vladimir Dracula, Susan St James in what was inarguably her best screen role as NY super model Cindy Sondheim, and ever-funny Richard Benjamin as Dr Jeffrey Rosenberg.a distant relation of Dr Van Helsing no less! Both are in love with Cindy who is torn every which way emotionally, even allowing for her understandable concern as to the restrictive life of a bat in general. The strength of the film lies in its principals. Totally watchable and entertaining flick (which is somewhat MORE than can be said for Hamilton's follow-up, ZORRO THE GAY BLADE). Seems a couple of generations earlier - a real throwback to 50's and 60's "family" movies. Quite incredible this was made the same year as ALIEN. After the change, it's not worth a 1.0/10 from. I was highly disappointed with this change! It degraded the quality of the experience to the point of making it worthless! If you can find this movie in its original format (before the change, that is) this movie rates an 8.2/10. James), has been negatively altered! It now no longer contains that memorable song and the soundtrack has been changed to another song for that scene. That wonderful climax where the two of them are dancing to the song, "I Love the Nightlife" and he is attempting to use his Vampyric powers on Suntime (St. The VHS release, however, has one major change I neither understand, nor can stomach. MacMillian and Wife was a wonderful series, but she shined brightest in this movie. Her success on television in my opinion stemmed from her performance in this movie. But in this one, he was honestly good, as was Susan St. That is much more than I can say for the next one he did, Zorro, the Gay Blade. Hamilton is genuinely funny in this movie. Since all four of the major characters in here provide tons of entertainment in this hour-and-a-half, this movie always is fun to watch, no matter what era. James, as model "Cindy Sonheim," gives us Exhibit A of that, with Benjamin close behind. Speaking of "liberal," this film is like something discovered out of a time capsule, if you want to see the most Liberal period in American history - the '60s and '70s - with the too-casual attitude toward sex, drugs and anything of moral value. He excels with his deadpan humor and restrained style as the famous "Count Dracula." Johnson, as "Renfield," still makes me laugh with his stupid laugh in here and Benjamin added a lot of spark to the film the moment he entered, playing the ultra-liberal psychiatrist who knows who Dracula right off and tries in vain to stop him. This has to be Hamilton's best role by far. James is okay in the female lead role here but almost all the laughs are produced by three guys: George Hamilton IV, Arte Johnson and Richard Benjamin. Brooks must have been inspired watching this film. Despite the '70s sleaze and feel to it, this is still a classic comedy with many laugh-out-loud scenes, similar to the Dracula spoof Mel Brooks put out in the '90s (Dracula: Dead And Loving It).
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