I have watched both movies recently as I just attended a teacher's training at a science academy on Frankenstein. The Gene Wilder movie is actually a spoof of the book by Mary Shelly. He is a nutty kind of Victor Frankenstein who has an odd housekeeper and a hunchback for an assistant. He has a finance that is pretty bossy and dominating. He hires an attractive assistant and cheats on his girlfriend with her.
The creation is also silly and Victor teaches him to sing and dance to the song "Puttin’ on the Ritz." When the creature sees fire he freaks and causes an uproar. The townspeople go after him to kill him, but everything works out. In the end the creature ends up with Frankenstein's fiancé and Victor gets to be with his assistant who makes him much happier.
Mary Shelly's book Frankenstein was much better represented in a film in which Robert Dinero stars as the creature. It is based on the book and does a much better job of interpreting the book.
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