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Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters Collection [VHS]

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This collection consists of Abbott & Costello Meet ...Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Invisible Man.
The Frankenstein and Invisible Man movies are possibly the best with more cohesive plots and more Abbott & Costello than the other two movies. However, all these movies are winners in my book. All the movies have classic Abbott & Costello repartee and it's great to have all four of these classic monsters with Abbott & Costello in a set!

What makes ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN dynamic is that Bella Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr. play the monster roles as straight as their audence expects. They should have received bonuses for restraint! It's funny, scarry, and flies with an active story and creative cast. IN ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN, the boys are fresh out of detective school and looking for a place to start. A famous boxer, Tommy Nelson is wrongfully accused of murder. By a freak lab insident, Tommy is made invisible and needs LOU and ABBOT to find a rat in and out of the boxing ring. You have to see the fight scene with Costello. It roars! Excellent combination.

The best of Abbott and Costello is definitely in this pack!I love Abbott and Costello(as actors)!Not even the 3 stooges can beat the abbott and costello when they meet the monsters!Everyone should have the right to watch the talented Bud Abbott and Lou Costello!There should be more copies!So whoever is reading this that hasn,t seen it I won't spoil it,only give a tiny summary on my favorite one.:
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Slim and Tubby(Bud and Lou)are American cops in London to study police tactics and knowing them,they wind up in jail. They are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll who has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. The boys look to solve the recent murders to get back on the police force. The serum ends up into the system of Tubby and several police officers, causing many Hyde's running around London.

My two children were able to watch all three of these movies for the fist time the other day. It was wonderful to see their eyes light up at all the funny faces that Lou Costello made and the wise cracks of Bud Abbott. But what was truly rare for them was to watch pure simple comedy that isn't around today. These movies proved to be as wonderful today as they were when they were made. Both of my children (ages 9 and 6) couldn't wait for the next one to start. Thank you to Abbott and Costello for the pure, simple comedy that will live on in our home for a long time.

By the 1950's, Abbott and Costello's film career was beginning to slide. Fortunately, "A&C MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN" is a bright spot among these later films. Since it seemed unlikely that the scare comedy of "MEET FRANKENSTEIN" could be topped, someone wisely decided to make this more of a mystery-comedy with a sci-fi twist thrown in. And it works. Bud and Lou are joined by a great supporting cast including Arthur Franz (as the invisible one), Sheldon Leonard, and William Frawley (very funny as a befuddled detective!)

yes this is one of Bud and Lou's best, especially considering the low quality of some of their other films from this period. (Comin Round The Mountain for example.) However Universal didn't impress me with the new packaging with the trailers and the Woody Woodpecker cartoon. The trailer has had the titles removed, and the cartoon is the same one that's on the Hold That Ghost video. Considering the high quality and the great nostalgia in the first 6 re-releases, I was highly dissapointed in this one. It seems Universal's main concern was getting it out in time for the Halloween promotion, and they didn't give it the care it deserved. Great film, but if you own a previous version, don't waste the money for the extras this time around.

This was Abbott and Costello's absolute classic. Every second is enjoyable.It has the funniest lines you ever heard.One of the Best.Buy it you will love it.It has a great plot as well.

The popular thing these days when speaking of this film is to call it second only to 'A & C Meet Frankenstein, In this case, the popular thing to say is correct!The film is a delight and A & C are in rare form.Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens and Sheldon Leonard give great performances as well.Top notch direction and a script that is funny and dramatic at once, make this a winner!

Bud & Lou graduate detective school or at least Bud does, Lou graduates because the teacher is bribed. A suspected killer comes to them to help prove he is innocent and later becomes invisible to hide from the police who happens to be william frawley (fred mertz from i love lucy). frawley had lou sent to a shrink to explain disappearing men and ends up hypnotizing the shrink - very funny. The theme is a boxing frame up, when a figher doesnt take a dive and knocks out the mobs boxer- you get a murder. Next Bud and lou go undercover as boxer and manager to prove the set up and with the invisble man as lou's real boxing hands it is very funny and a very well put together hollywood gem that you can watch with the whole family, unlike the current [stuff] hollywood puts out today, this is good clean fun and a keeper.

This movie of Abbott and Costello is one of the weirdest, but wonderfully made. It all begins when a radio bulletin announces that an escapee from jail is lurking around the city. When he comes home, he tells the doctor friend of his to inject him with a shot that will make him invisible, but the doctor refuses, explaning the risk and symptoms he'll encounter are fatal, and can do permanent damage, such as blindness, to him. But when the police come, and the escaped prisoner is the only one left in the doctor's lab, he injects himself, and then Costello comes in, and tries to shake his hand, but just before it can, it becomes invisible! This movie has too much to say, so watch the rest for yourself. I highly reccomend this one.