He used to have black hair and skin-colored skin, but each day his hair gets whiter and his skin gets more transparent. It's not the most evenly-balanced comedy, but it's pretty funny in parts, and ends with a particularly memorable boxing match involving the Invisible Man, which provides a good deal of entertaining slapstick comedy.The Last Invisible Boy. It's exactly what it sounds like from the title, following the duo as they play bumbling detectives investigating a murder allegedly committed by an invisible man. RELATED: Every Classic Universal Dracula Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestĪs such, it seemed like a no-brainer to do something similar with the Invisible Man series, and so Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man was born. Previously, the pair had starred in a successful 1948 horror comedy called Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man even had a voice-only cameo in that film's closing scene (not enough of an impact for it to count as an Invisible Man movie, though).
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With steam running out for the Invisible Man series post-1944, it seemed like one way to give the series - and its title character - a new shot of life was to pair him with comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The attempt at something different is admirable, even if the execution leaves something to be desired, making this a worthwhile curiosity for fans of old-school science-fiction, even though it's not particularly amazing or anything. Like in 1944's The Invisible Man's Revenge, the title character here also becomes invisible because she wants revenge, though the stakes are a little less high-stakes this time, as her target is an ex-boss who once screwed her over.
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Though the series followed different men who became invisible, this is still significant for being the only time the invisible person alluded to in the title was not a man, and with the change in gender came a more light-hearted movie that moved away from horror, and emphasized a little more comedy in with its sci-fi. It was the third movie in the series, and had a central gimmick that involved a gender swap of the title character. The Invisible Woman is pretty much what you'd expect it to be.
It's not surprising that it wasn't followed by any more traditional sequels only a 1951 film that represented a significant change-up for the series (more on that later). It's all a bit "been there, done that," and though it's not abysmal for its time, it doesn't feel particularly fresh or enjoyable. Its plot sees a fugitive allowing a scientist to experiment on him, making him invisible, and then follows him using said power to get revenge on a former partner in crime who left him for dead. RELATED: It’s Alive! The Classic Frankenstein Movies, Ranked The successful Invisible Man movies tweak the formula enough to stay fun, but The Invisible Man's Revenge falters a little in this regard. There are only so many times that one character can die or be defeated and seemingly come back, and if the formula isn't mixed up enough, audiences are likely to get bored, and filmmakers run the risk of once-loved series becoming tired and dull. Seeing as this was the fifth movie to feature the Invisible Man in just over 10 years, fatigue was starting to set in. Image via Universal Pictures Company, Inc.
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