The production's genially tatty air enhances its anarchical mood and encourages one to go with its goofy yet often shrewd comic flow.
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10/19/09
Love at First Bite (1979)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:13
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6/10
Synopsis: When Count Dracula espies beauteous fashion plate Cindy Sondheim in a magazine, he vows to make her his own--eternally. But first, the 700-year-old Count must learn how to keep up with her in the... [More]
Starring: George Hamilton, Susan St. James, Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin
Director: Stan Dragoti
Reviews for Love at First Bite
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Casting Dracula as the Last Romantic, Scott Fitzgerald-style, was a clever idea, but nothing clever remains in the film's hodgepodge of flat one-liners and graceless slapstick.
10/19/09
Although much of this is pretty funny, the film is a scattershot affair that tries to milk laughs out of the most mundane and tired gags.
10/19/09
What would happen if Dracula was victimized by life in modern New York City? It's a fun notion and George Hamilton makes it work.
03/26/09
Top CriticIf you haven't smoked any wolfsbane you might wonder why you have such fond memories of this one.
02/27/07
See it when you feel at your silliest.
06/24/06
...hopelessly dated...
07/11/05
There are killer lines and exchanges, but not the overall consistency you'd hope for, or the kind of energy that could drive a stake through our ennui.
07/10/05
No review available.
06/30/05
A coarse, delightful little movie with a bang-up cast and no pretensions at all.
05/09/05
Top Critic[C]lever, funny commentary on a new era of interpersonal relationships when no one knew what they wanted or how to articulate it.
11/02/04
No review available.
05/28/04
No review available.
03/19/04
Hamilton is great as the count with a heart, and an endless stream of jokes ensures that at least a good handful are spot on.
05/24/03
No review available.
08/15/02
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08/13/02
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07/31/02
No review available.
07/25/02
Resolutely mainstream; its humor sticks largely to sitcom-level jokes about Jews, sex, drugs, and the Dracula legend.
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