History YMMV / DraculaDeadAndLovingIt

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: There is a ''lot'' of cleavage in this movie. Probably the most famous scene is Jonathan trying to turn down vampire!Lucy with "but I'm British", to which Lucy pushes up her boobs and responds "but so are ''these!''"

** [[VampireHunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing]] is a wily old doctor who enjoys hosting autopsies which are secretly ways to terrorize his students in a self-imposed challenge to make them faint: something he never fails at. Brought to London to examine the ailing Lucy Westerna, Van Helsing forms a plan to protect her from Count Dracula and soon comes to the conclusion that Dracula is a vampire. Forcing the now vampiric Lucy to her coffin, Van Helsing has Jonathan Harker stake her while he hides out of the path of the eruption of blood. Forming a plan to expose Dracula and have Renfield lead him to the vampire, Van Helsing cannot resist getting in a final insult after Dracula's final ashes have been interred in their competition to get the last word.

* EvilIsCool: Count Dracula as played by Creator/LeslieNielsen so it's a given he'd be charming and funny.

** Extra freaky is the sudden appearance of a photograph depicting a grotesque sculpture (one from Toddington Manor) of a man that appears right when Creator/MelBrooks' acting credit comes up. While all the other pictures were almost beautiful in their depictions of horror, this twisted caricature of a person is just straight-up UncannyValley.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: When Creator/PeterMacNicol as Thomas Renfield isn't acting his [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents poshest]], he goes [[LargeHam full-ham]] when under Dracula's sway, making him stand out in what a lot of people believe to be [[SoOkayItsAverage a modest, if not mediocre comedy]]. Creator/JamesRolfe even goes so far as to compare him to Creator/{{Dwight Frye}}'s portrayal in [[Film/Dracula1931 the original 1931 classic]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: When Creator/PeterMacNicol as Thomas Renfield isn't acting his [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents poshest]], he goes [[LargeHam full-ham]] when under Dracula's sway, making him stand out in what a lot of people believe to be [[SoOkayItsAverage a modest, if not mediocre comedy]]. Creator/JamesRolfe even goes so far as to compare him to Dwight Frye's portrayal in [[Film/Dracula1931 the original 1931 classic]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: When Creator/PeterMacNicol as Thomas Renfield isn't acting his poshest, he goes [[LargeHam full-ham]] when under Dracula's sway, making him stand out in what a lot of people believe to be [[SoOkayItsAverage a modest, if not mediocre comedy]]. Creator/JamesRolfe even goes so far as to compare him to Dwight Frye's portrayal in [[Film/Dracula1931 the original 1931 classic]].

* MagnificentBastard: Count {{Dracula}} himself is the hammy VillainProtagonist who seeks a new vampire bride to dance with. Turning the moronic solicitor Thomas Renfield into his slave with his powers, Dracula arrives in England and quickly charms one young woman and when she dies shortly after becoming a vampire turns his attention to Mina Harker. Charming Mina with his powers and killer dance moves, Dracula also quickly catches on to Professor Abraham Van Helsing's suspicion of his true nature. Matching wits with Van Helsing, Dracula nearly succeeds in turning Mina into his bride and is only stopped by Renfield's sheer stupidity, though the ending indicates he survives to throw one final jeer at Van Helsing. A charmingly hilarious parody of a ClassicalMovieVampire, this incarnation of the Count retains Dracula's signature cunning with none of his depravity.

* WhatAnIdiot: Van Helsing, Jonathan and Dr. Seward during the final confrontation; they already know they are dealing with a vampire, yet they don't bother to properly prepare themselves when confronting the count (like bringing stakes and garlic along) but instead try to fight him with their bare hands and whatever objects they find in his lair. It's even worse since [[SkewedPriorities they put plenty of time into setting up a dramatic reveal that Dracula was a vampire.]]

* CultClassic: When released, the movie was a huge BoxOfficeBomb and received scathing reviews, effectively ending Mel Brooks's already declining film career. Today, while still considered his weakest film, it's gained a warmer reception on home video from dedicated Brooksians who feel it's perfectly good for what it is (though the jury is still out over whether or not he should have stopped making movies after this one).

** Extra freaky is the sudden appearance of a photograph depicting a grotesque sculpture (one from Toddington Manor) of a man that appears right when Mel Brooks' acting credit comes up. While all the other pictures were almost beautiful in their depictions of horror, this twisted caricature of a person is just straight-up UncannyValley.
* SoOkayItsAverage: Generally regarded as Mel Brooks's weakest movie, but not a bad movie in its own right. After all, a weak Mel Brooks movie is still a ''Mel Brooks'' movie!

* WhatAnIdiot: Van Helsing, Jonathan and Dr. Seward during the final confrontation; they already know they are dealing with a vampire, yet they don't bother to properly prepare themselves when confronting the count (like bringing stakes and garlic along) but instead try to fight him with their bare hands and whatever objects they find in his lair. It's even worse since [[SkewedPriorities they put plenty of time into setting up a dramatic reveal that Dracula was a vampire.]]

* {{Narm}}: Mina screaming and fainting onto her bed after a cross burns her hand can come across as this.