Last weekend, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ became the first Warner Bros.–released movie since ‘The Alto Knights’ to legitimately flop. And it did so spectacularly, scoring a shocking $7.2 million domestically on a reported $90 million budget. The buzz on this thing is *terrible.* But what needs to be understood is that “‘The Bride!’ being terrible” and “‘The Bride!’ being worth seeing” are actually not mutually exclusive. “In fact, ‘The Bride!’ is such a swing-for-the-fences tonal smorgasbord that it demands to be seen in theaters. Perhaps more than once,” Jason P. Frank writes. ‘The Bride!’ is a feminist reimagining of the “Bride of Frankenstein” story, in which Mary Shelley’s spirit (Jessie Buckley), angry that she had to write ‘Frankenstein’ about a man given the Victorian era she lived in, possesses the body of a girl in the 1930s (also played by Buckley), kills her, then fights for control over her body when she gets reawoken by Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and a female mad scientist (Annette Bening). “No two characters in the film appear to occupy the same world,” Frank writes. “And yet, ‘The Bride!’’s sheer conviction is utterly engrossing. Nothing in this movie is done half-assed, and nobody is anything but totally determined to bury all sense of pride in service of a nonsensical story. It is, in other words, a movie of a dying breed: naïve camp.” Frank explains why the ‘The Bride!’ is worth the watch: