Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) review

Mel takes on Bram Stoker's notorious bloodsucker ... and you should know the names by now: Renfield (Peter MacNicol) journeys to Transylvania to visit to Dracula (Leslie Nielsen) and becomes his slave (and develops a taste for insects), then the Count bites the necks of the lovely Mina (Amy Yasbeck) and Lucy (Lysette Anthony) which is where Van Helsing (Brooks), Jonathan Harker (Steven Weber) and Dr. Seward (Harvey Korman) have to intervene.  More often than not it just comes as a slightly silly "real" adaptation of the novel instead of a proper spoof: there are a couple half-decent zingers in there and MacNicol hams it up in a pleasing way, but it's hardly an inspired effort (and could have used an enema).  What's sad is that it's the last feature film Brooks has directed to date, and if this wasn't a financial bomb I suspect he would have done another one (or two).