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(1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 17% 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 "An exciting horror spectacle that combines Frankenstein, Dracula and Biblical lore with elements of the James Bond series."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 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 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten Page   1