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Movie Overview
Cast
• Hugh Jackman
• Kate Beckinsale
• Richard Roxburgh
Director
• Stephen Sommers
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - nonstop creature action violence and frightening images, and for sensuality
Van Helsing (2004)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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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
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OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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