Mix of the super movies. Bad mix. Bad, bad.

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2005)

let's start with a mix of the stories of Dracula and Frankenstein. Add some eggs of Alien(s), and later on have many more. Out the eggs come Gremlins. Funny creatures. They behave really like the pixies of the Harry Potter movies, and they behave badly. There seems to be need for quite a bit from Lord of the Rings, like the maps, the horses and the nice views of snowy mountaintops. Dracula wants his ring, but is not yet calling it his precious. Add some feel and wit of Buffy and Angel episodes. Sprinkle some silly special effects and anachronisms of Wild Wild West and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Frankenstein's brain was flown in from the set of the next sequel of Silence of the Lambs. A mirror acts like a Stargate, go through it and be somewhere completely different suddenly. Some castles are moved from New Zealand, and Saruman and Sauran sorely miss them. I've seen Jack Nicholson do a better werewolf. Van can surf like Legolas, but this looks even more unbelievable. Everybody is able to perform rope-slinging like Spidey, even the lady outdoes Indiana Jones.
All humans have super strength and survive blows that would kill a rhino, survive 50 yard drops that would smash the sturdiest marble.
Oooh, and of course we got Faramir from LOTR, behaving silly and cowardly. And Wolverine from X-Men, behaving heroic and gentlemen-like. Rubeus Hagrid from Harry Potter is killed way too soon. M of the League is way too human and friendly to convince as a vampire. Selene of Underworld though is a good and very strong vampire killer, and how tiny is her waist, it's stunning, but it being very unpractical does of course not stop her.
Ah, all ends well that ends like Ghost. No Swayze though... But the end is an invitation for a sequel. I hope it won't be made.
Of course it's dark, snowing and/or raining all the time. The acting is a bit thin, it's all a caricature. The plot, well, it makes hardly any sense. The story goes ways Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley have never thought of and would certainly not approve.
It's all way too silly. I give it a 3. Not a 1. But that's just because of the special effects, the costumes and the new ways of extreme violence.