What went wrong??

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2004)

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I didn't have massive hopes for this movie to begin with. But when it began I thought it might be okay. It begins in black and white and what is basically the original frankenstein movie but with enhanced special effects. But then they throw Dracula into the mix who has hired Frankenstein to find the secret to life for his own evil purposes, which are revealed later in the film. But Frankenstein takes the secret to his grave in the spectacular windmill fire of the original movie. And with Van Helsings first appearance, fighting the obnoxious giant Scotsman Mr Hyde, there is also a bit of hope for the movie.
But as the movie goes on it just gets silly. Carl, the friar, has a ridiculously annoying English accent and is a blatent rip off of the Q character from the Bond Films. The storyline is done in the best possible way to fit Dracula, Frankensteins monster and werewolves into it, but it's not great and very predictable. I actually thought the monsters were all done pretty well, especially the werewolves which were very cool despite looking cartoony. The Frankenstein monster drew lots of laughs from the crowd, even though he was meant to be a tragic character. This was kind of unavoidable but they could have done him in a bit less obviously laughable way. And Dracula I thought was fine. There was alot of bad overacting from him and his brides but overall I thought he was cool. Even his demon form, which I thought I would hate, was pretty cool in the end.
Despite the fantastic effects, theres just too many negative points to call it a good film. A cheesy, predictable plot, poor acting, ridiculous lines, way too many unintentionally laughable moments and ridiculously over the top set pieces.
4/10 - just because of the overall look of the film and a few little things which were seriously cool