um, you almost spoiled the movie. :p

All i know is the final scene made me laugh and I looked behind me and somebody was crying. From my experience, that usually means the movie is bad, last time that happened I was at "Beyond Borders"

I saw Vanhelsing a couple of days after the release. It's fun for what it is. It's a great summer movie as far as being action packed. I'd say the CG is good, but not great. Other than CG eye candy, there's Kate Beckinsale, and a couple of very hot Vampires! However, when you find yourself missing dialogue while wondering who's hotter, Beckinsale or the redhead vampire... it might say something for the plot, story, and character building. I had high hopes for Vanhelsing when I saw the trailer the first time. I felt let down after seeing it, but it's not entirely without merit.

- Josh :)

The Red headed Vampire below the neck, Beckensale above... I mean... um... Good story.:p

I've heard lots of good and bad stuff about this movie, so I went out to see it and I was very impressed. It was a great fun, silly action-adventure horror flick. I didn't expect it to be the greatest movie of all time, and I liked it because I took it on its own terms. You can't compare "Van Helsing" to great films like "The Godfather" but then again those two are never meant to be compared. "Van Helsing" achieved with flying colors exactly what it meant to by being a horror homage with lots of great action scenes and colorful characters. The plot to bring Frankenstein, theWolfman, and Dracula together worked for me, and in fact it was actually kind of clever. I wish they would have done a slightly better job on Frankenstein, but you can't beat Boris Karloff. Dracula could have been more evil, but if they made Dracula as evil as I wanted him to be the film would have been banned. The music of the film was awesome, the special effects were very well done, the plot really wasn't bad, and Hugh Jackman was perfectly cast. I even jumped a few times in theater, there were a few pretty good scares. The lighthearted jokes were great in my opinion, and the whole audience including myself was laughing at the jokes or going "wow, that was cool" a lot. If you like films like the Mummy, the Mummy Returns, (SCORPION KING is terrible, however) or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I loved all of those), than "Van Helsing" will blow you away. As far as action flix go, you could do a HELL of a lot worse! (Pardon the bad pun).
My rating: 7 out of 10

(Now when does Fright Night Part III and The Lost Boys 2 come out? :))
I can't wait to get the Dracula/Frankenstein/Wolfman Legacy Collections!

I dunno...I think that one CAN compare movies from different genres to each other. I mean, a great movie is a great movie next to anything, and a bad one is a bad one next to anything. :)

Justin... I think I agree... uhhh I mean about the story... uhh yeah... the story... right.

Van Helsing wasn't horrible, I just had high hopes for story, and character building. I do however feel sorry for actor David Wenham (Carl in Van Helsing). He went from playing in an EPIC movie as the noble and benevolent "Faramir" in LOTR, to a dorky, wimpy, and fairly uninteresting character of "Carl" in Van Helsing. Speaking of which, this was one of the let downs for me. I think it was REALLY lame to put a midevil version of the James Bond and "Q" relationship between Van Helsing and Carl in Van Helsing. Maybe I'm trying to put too serious a note on Van Helsing, but that's how I feel it was advertised. As I mentioned above, it was good for what it was, but I doubt I'll add it to my library. James Cameron once said (and I'm paraphrasing) (There's a certain "flow" that you have to follow in visual story telling in order to both keep people interested, but also send them on a rollercoaster ride). I think this is where Van Helsing failed. Oh well. It is what it is.

- Josh :D

I was just reading about the character Van Helsing in this movie and found out that Gabriel Van Helsing is actually Abraham's younger brother.