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| VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN movie poster |
The Travelling Toe and a friend decided to see the new film about Frankenstein and his monster a the local Movie Tavern. The Frankenstein story has been told many times over and over throughout the years, but this movie takes a different tactic and is told from Igor's perspective.
As the movie started we find that Igor is a circus freak due to large hump on his back that causes other deformities. Victor sees him and immediately knows what his true health issue really is - a huge cyst that just needs to be drained. Victor takes Igor back to his house and treats his medical conditions and gives him a new life of luxury and friendship that Igor had never known.
Igor has total loyalty to Victor and assists him with his many primitive experiments of human replication. Victor tells Igor that his ultimate goal is to make life out of death. However, as the story has always told, their experiments get them in trouble with many people. They each take it on a lam but eventually meet up at a desolate castle in order to bring the latest incarnation of a piece-part human to life. The scene where lighting is used to jump start the monster was nicely done. But alas, some medical experiments are ahead of their time and are not to be....well, ever!!!
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| James McAvoy Victor Frankenstein |
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| Daniel Radcliffe Igor |
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| Andrew Scott Roderick Turpin |
Just one more quick note, Andrew Scott, plays Detective Roderick Turpin who is after Frankenstein. He is tenuous in his pursuit of the 2 men. Andrew seems to be popping up in various movies lately and always brings his A-game to the project, as he did here.
This is a good movie in that the stage setting was spot on for later 1800's London and the costumes reflected that time period. It seemed to filmed in a almost hazy overtone that just added more intrigue to the story.
Daniel Radcliffe played Igor and he did a very good job of contorting his body for the hump back (without the use of a wizard's wand too!). James McAvoy stared as Victor and was good as the manic scientist.
The Travelling Toe gives this movie a left middle toe up with lighting rod so that the 2nd left toe will not be regenerated as it was lost to hazardous waste 2 years ago.
Disclaimer: The Travelling Toe is not a professional critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.
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