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(1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 16% Rotten Page   1   3/5 "Gustará más a niños y jóvenes que a quienes aspiren al corte clásico o la épica histórica."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez "The other wrench tossed into the monster definitions mix is Frankenstein, into whose hideout Van Helsing and Anna accidentally and literally tumble."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "Sommers has opted to give Dracula an army of midget alien minions. MIDGET ALIEN MINIONS. As soon as I’m done laughing, I’ll finish my review."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C "The Ugly, The Bad, and The Good… totally in that order."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1.5/4 "Evil might have but one name to fear but intelligent, discerning moviegoers have two: Van Helsing."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "Disposable eye candy that entertains while it plays itself out but isn't worth much once it's over."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D "A gargantuan mess of a film, which substitutes special effects for story and has not a single redeeming moment in its two hour plus running time."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens C "This is a massively silly film, silliness on a grand scale, so silly and over-the-top yet simultaneously so emotionally flat and even dull."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "I'm required by law to like any movie with a character named 'Marishka' and where other characters yell that name in impassioned tones during action scenes."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "atmospheric and relentlessly sketchy thus ignoring the real ingredient that stimulates a captivating creep show...Van Helsing is definitely a ridiculous pill to swallow"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "Monstrously bad...Sommers not only plunders the classic films for material but trashes what he's cribbed from them."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek .5/5 "Sacrifices storyline and credible character development for its single mission: keep it moving and shuck everything else."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat .5/4 "Van Helsing is the worst would-be summer blockbuster since Battlefield Earth."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/4 "allows for the digital manipulation of virtually everything on screen, turning the movie into a frenetic, attention-deficit cartoon that still manages to look kinda cheap"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Silly summer blockbuster fun, but not as silly nor as fun as it could have been . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 1/5 "Big, dumb action flick makes the undead, unearthly and unholy look unimpressive, unintelligent and unexciting."   Netflix   James Rocchi 1.5/4 "Plotless, pointless, horror-fest."   Aufmuth.com   Jeanne Aufmuth 3/10 "Jackman and Beckinsale ... play their characters as if they're not in on the joke, and therein lies Van Helsing's biggest problem. Much of the movie is a joke."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 7/10 "If you're gonna complain about the film's 'realism'...stay home and rent The Remains of the Day and leave the rest of us to have a blast with Van Helsing!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 19/100 "Stephen Sommers delivers stale effect-movie action, outdoing even his own worst efforts."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 1.5/4 "'Si quiere verla, mejor espérese a que salga en DVD…y aún así creo de debería pensarlo.'"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 1.0/4.0 "... even in the name of high adventure, the end result was just too silly and unbelievable to accept or enjoy."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/4 "There’s something about seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted on screen that is pleasantly overwhelming."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 2.5/5 "A hokey monster mish-mash that plunders the richly textured histories of Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4/10 "Writer-director Steven Sommers of the MUMMY films handles action scenes well, but is poor with directing acting or even giving us a very good story."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[A] disaster of gothic proportions..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/5 "Sommers is just painting by numbers."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "Van Helsing is unapologetically nothing more than a monster movie, and it’s a good one at that."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "The first real popcorn pleasure of the year, a deliciously entertaining thrill ride that pleasurably tweaks new thrills from old stories. "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "Perhaps the loudest summer film of all time, Van Helsing's apt to provide more migraines than nightmares."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Por favor, evitem que este filme alcance uma boa bilheteria e viabilize um Van Helsing 2. Esta é uma ameaça muito mais assustadora do que dez Dráculas e cem Lobisomens juntos."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "A cacophonous mess."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar "The film is weighted down by its sheer willingness to bludgeon viewers with never-ending sensation instead of trying to give them an interesting story or characters..."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "There's only one problem with this thunderously entertaining action romp: The budget is two times too big!"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "An overamped action movie in which the legendary monsters are interchangeable with any other brutish CGI beasts."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "It's like celebrating James Joyce with a monster-truck rally."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "Great looking film with a brain-dead script."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B "The CGI fans are going to scrutinize the F/X but the average bear is just going to enjoy the show."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1/5 "Had the Universal Monsters at its whim and gave us Wild, Wild West in a trenchcoat. "   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 1.5/5 "Churned hot off the assembly line, it's an ugly and disposable piece of ultra-expensive formula product that exists solely to kick-start a new revenue stream."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 2/5 "stop asking questions or you’ll miss yet another CGI Van Helsing figure being thrown through yet another CGI wall."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 5/10 "It's fast-paced, flashy and fiendish but - bottom line - Hugh Jackman deserves better, even if this becomes another franchise."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "Rome burns when stuff like this makes it into the collective unconscious."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1.5/4 "Much like the horror films the characters represent, "Van Helsing" is a movie that's more about the ambiance and setting than the quality of the achievement."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 0/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. Read review   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel  (1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 16% Rotten Page   1