Film critic Jonathan Sim's review of Lisa Frankenstein, a new horror comedy movie starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse.
4208_D006_00205_R Cole Sprouse stars as The Creature and Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in LISA FRANKENSTEIN, a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2024 FOCUS FEATURES LLCThe movie stars Kathryn Newton as a teen goth named Lisa who revives a corpse and makes him into the man of her dreams.directs the film in her feature-length directorial debut, and approaches this script with a strong vision.
It has a lot going for it, which is why many audience members may find something of value with this zany zom-rom-com. It starts out with a black and white animated sequence, for Pete’s sake! This should be everything. Instead, it doesn’t push anything far enough. There are definitely moments that may have some dropping their jaws.
Early on, the film sees Lisa and Taffy going to a party. Classic high school movie sequence. From here, we learn about Lisa’s traumatic backstory. She lost her mom at a young age, which is why she now has a horrible stepmother, played by Carla Gugino. Gugino gets saddled with some strange expository dialogue meant to give us a sense of why her character is such a mean person. It feels odd, having characterization delivered like this.
Newton is occasionally fun, but there’s only so much Sprouse can do when he’s covered in zombie makeup and not saying any words. The romance between them is surprisingly charmless, but I suppose it can be challenging to have chemistry with a corpse. But then, maybe Paul Dano would disagree.
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