Let's all try to find a way to spend an insane amount of money!!

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2004)

I left the theatre with a strong thought in my mind: I'm about 20 years older than I should be to enjoy this movie! How old am I? 32!! The film is a showcase of special FX, loud music and handsomely looking set pieces all put together in a "mish mash" of a movie. The only original thing in it is the fact that nobody had ripped off so many other films before...OK, fine, let's all call it an "homage" to the old "monsters movies"... but I have to say, as a lover of those films, this one didn't really cut it for me. Am I really too old for this? But then again, everybody else seemed to love "The Mummy" and its lousy sequel, so I guess they will all flock to see this too. It certainly looks expensive for most of its length (20 minutes too long, by the way) and the CGI work in places is some of the most impressive I've seen recently (but Mr Hyde is just as bad as the HULK was last summer)... I just wish they could also spend some money in making sure that the audience cared a little bit more about what's going on the screen. The story is really thin and the dialogue is almost non-existent while the comic relives are so few that when they come you almost forget you're supposed to laugh (in fact in the theatre where I was, nobody ever did!). Having said that, I can see a sequel coming up pretty soon. So who's next? Let's bet: the mummy, the monster of the blue lagoon, the invisible man? The Smurfs? What a shame is to see Hollywood wasting so much money on what's basically a kid movie... what about their older brothers and sisters? And their parents?