Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Largely boring. Ms. Shelley would not approve, I think.

This film, like Coppola's Dracula epic, proves that even brilliant filmmakers can't seem to avoid the tempation to 'improve' upon the original classics...though both are closer to the originals than most other film versions, and both contain the occasional riveting scene...Read the books.