Kenneth Branagh’s monster period piece seems to be trying to do for Shelly’s classic what Francis Ford Coppola did for (or maybe “to” is a better term) Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Somewhere in the deep melodrama there are a couple of moments, not the least of which is Robert DeNiro’s ability to bring a believable measure of psychotic menace to the Creature, a thing more frequently portrayed as a misunderstood mute. But we take ourselves oh so seriously, a problem that can probably be laid at the doorstep of Branaugh and former Merchant Ivory regular Helena Bonham Carter. See if desperate
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