Directed by Zelda Williams. A runtime of one hour and forty-one minutes. Streaming on Peacock with a PG-13 rating.
“Lisa,” played by Kathryn Newton, is at an odd time in her life. It’s 1989, and she’s a senior in high school. Her mother was brutally murdered, which heavily affected her, as it should. Her father, “Dale,” played by Joe Chrest, doesn’t feel the same way.
“Dale,” after only six months, remarried a woman named “Janet,” played by Carla Gugino. He also became a father to his new stepdaughter, “Taffy,” played by Liza Soberano. Nothing is wrong with that, but he treats her like a daughter more than his actual daughter.
Even with “Lisa” in a not-so-ideal situation and “Taffy” trying to be a sister to her in only the way “Taffy” knows how to. “Lisa,” who doesn’t talk much, took joy hanging at an old, creepy cemetery. Reading and hanging out next to a man known as “The Creature,” played by Cole Sprouse grave.
After a stormy night, “The Creature comes back to life. Being a sort of pet to “Lisa.” A murderous one, but a pet nonetheless, in this twisted tale. These two will notice after a death and stealing the body parts, that “The Creature” is missing. He starts to become more human than a creature. Changing from a pet to a confident and possibly more.
Will this be a happy tale? Probably not right; they are killing people and taking their body parts. One thing is certain: they meet each other at the right time and help one another out more than they know it.
“Lisa Frankenstein” started weirdly. I knew from the beginning how this film was going to go. It kind of reminded me of “Amy’s F**k It List” in the way everyone was treating “Lisa.” Poorly.
I’m over Frankenstein-type films. “Poor Things” comes to mind; anything in that realm hasn’t been good. They can just keep those films at this point.
I’m also over the films that depict the father moving on quickly and siding with the new family members over someone as high-ranking as your daughter. It annoys me, and if you’re going to do it, make it worth putting the viewer through that.
I couldn’t stand the relationship everyone had with “Lisa.” Even “Taffy,” who was sort of an Allie, was a condescending butthead at times throughout the film. It didn’t make any sense to me that “Lisa” fashion got better because she had a living corpse in her closet giving her fashion advice.
This was a weird love story. It was meant for a younger audience. It had a bunch of low-key jokes, like “Lisa’s” name is “Lisa Swallows” or the fact that it seemed like they went out of their way to show crude humor. There are a lot of vagina references and things that could go in that vagina. It was just cheesy humor.
There are many things I can pick apart, like the joke about them saying I called a psychic and she was an actual Jamaican. Is that a Miss Cleo joke or a shot at Jamaicans? Some scenes had some humor to them, and others were trying too hard. A lot of scenes that didn’t make sense or were just stupid. Again, this just wasn’t for me. I give it two mor fires🔥🔥.
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