‘Lisa Frankenstein’ review: High-school monster mush
nypost.comNobody will leave writer Diablo Cody’s new horror-comedy “Lisa Frankenstein” shouting “it’s alive!” “It’s amusing,” maybe.The “Juno” scribe’s wacky contribution to the litany of riffs on Mary Shelley’s novel — from Boris Karloff to “Young Frankenstein” and “Frankenweenie” — makes the gothic tale into an 1980s teen sex comedy.Running time: 101 minutes.
Rated PG-13 (violent content, bloody images, sexual material, language, sexual assault, teen drinking and drug content). In theaters Feb.
9.Not a bad idea — and one that already worked out pretty well for John Hughes’ “Weird Science” in 1985. But here it’s a single-joke skit that’s too self-aware to be distinctively funny, freaky or thrilling.Our Dr.
Frankenstein is Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton), a high school outcast whose mother died and who now lives with a monotonous dad (Joe Chrest), a cruel stepmom Janet (Carla Gugino) and a popular stepsister named Taffy (Liza Soberano) who is both supportive and atrocious.
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