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The Munsters' Revenge Reviews:
Bittersweet
2009-10-30 - Although it was entertaining to see Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis portray Herman and Grampa for a final hurrah, this movie had terrible writing, which is typical of the reunion movies of the time. Unfortunately the producers of these films seemed only interested in getting an original cast together. Once they had the cast, THEN they wrote a story around it. The result was nearly always a disappointing mess. "Munsters Revenge" was no exception. Many critics felt that Butch Patrick and Pat Priest should have been cast as Eddie and Marilyn. I agree. Since their roles were minor anyway, it would have been great to see them again. It's a wonder why they bothered to get Yvonne DeCarlo since she had an extremely minor role. And the GREAT Sid Caesar was reduced to another terrible waste of talent. The writers had no respect for the performers but also it seems to me that the aging performers were simply out to make a buck in this movie without any worries about the terrible script.
I understand that Fred Gwynne asked for an "astronomical sum" to reprise his role as Herman. I'd really like to know exactly what that sum was, just out of curiosity. How much did NBC pay him to reprise his role? Considering how poorly this movie was made, it's a wonder how they got by with spending any serious sum of money to produce it.
This movie was not a completely dismal failure, although close to it. I did enjoy seeing Fred and Al together. But, as with all these reunions, if they spent just a fraction of the time writing a good story as they spent reuniting the cast, it could have been a great finale for the cast. Instead, it was just plain terrible. This film was easily worse than ANY poor episode of the original series. Unfortunately, the only reunion movie I ever saw that not only brought together an original cast but was also a decent story was the Andy Griffith show reunion. Oh, well. As bad as it is, I suppose I have to say that it's better than no reunion at all. It certainly is better than the 1980s remake of the show.

The last nail in the Munsters coffin by NBC
2007-05-30 - This is the last time the Munsters were seen together, and in a very bad NBC 'Made for TV' movie at that (shame on you NBC!!).

In a Nut Shell...

Munsters are honored in a wax museum, but the evil owner of the wax museum decides to incorporate robotics into the wax figures of the Munsters and the rest of the exhibits and have them perform criminal activity. And when the police go looking they arrest the real versions.

The make-up is nowhere as good as the 1960's "Munster Go Home" movie, but if you are Munster fan like myself, you need to have this in your collection.


A Very Good Comedy
2006-07-03 - This Munster movie is nearly as good as "Munsters Go Home!". There are quite a number of hilarious scenes in this film that make it a timeless work of comedy. This movie is funny!

The film begins with the Munster family checking out the local wax museum, where Herman tells his wife Lilly - "Dear, you can get some good decorating ideas for our house". When they see their replicas, they like them. But Lilly laments - "Everybody's here except poor Marilyn". Herman remarks "You can't blame them, they don't want to scare away the customers".

A series of small robberies are later blamed on the Munsters, because the robbers look just like them. The cops arrest Herman and Grandpa. They later escape. Driving in a car, Grandpa tells Herman that somebody that looks just like them is doing these crimes. Herman says nobody is as handsome as he, except his reflection and his likeness at the wax museum. Grandpa shouts "Herman, you got it". Herman replys "Got what"? Grandpa explains that their answers are likely to be found at the wax museum.

They go to the wax museum and learn about the crime ring that has produced wax models that are also robots, and those robots are doing the crimes. Kinda like Marvin Bush blowing up the Twin Towers and blaming it on alleged Arabs - the baddies are having their robots do crimes and the Munsters are getting the blame.

The bad guys are planning a big robbery of an ancient Egyptian mummy's coffin. The Munsters foil the crime with a little help from Marilyn and her new beau - the police detective, and alot of help from The Phantom of the Opera. A good ending to a good movie.


Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Al lewis, REUNITE!!!
2005-10-15 - Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis, and Sid Caesar, all combine into one munstrously good time! This is a great follow-up movie to the original series!


DVD info for The Munsters' Revenge
Spoken language: English
Captioning: English, Spanish, French

Don't forget to check out:

The Munsters The Complete First Season
The Munsters The Complete Second Season
Munster, Go Home!

... which are all on DVD!

Surprisingly Good!
2005-08-18 - At first, I was disappointed that Marilyn and Eddie were to be played by different actors, but I guess it was inevitable as they had aged too much to stay "in character". I was also put off by the sharp colored makeup (the series was in BW), but these are minor quibbles.
Herman and Grandpa have such amazing chemistry here. In the series, I never sensed the warmth between these two as I do here.
A special treat is comedy great Sid Caesar (Your Show of Shows). He plays Dustin Diablo, an evil genius from ANCIENT EGYPT!
I won't give away too much plot, but it is basically a "mistaken identity" comedy, as Herman and Grandpa are framed by Diablo and arrested while Diablo's "men" are free carry out their elaborate heist.
If you love "Phantom of the Opera", he's in here too!