Van Helwhat?

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2004)

This movie was the first movie, to my knowledge, that I saw in digital projection and it turned out to be a horrible movie.
This is a sad attempt for a clash of the 3 classic horror characters gone horrible wrong. I can't believe how 3 classic characters can be ruined in less than 2 hours and 30 minutes.
The start was decent. I like the black and white start. Gave the movie a good mood. But when Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) comes on, the movie starts to crumble. From the lame jokes to the lame acting, nothing was going right for this movie.
Why is Frankenstein made such a fool in this movie? He isn't suppose to think, and he is only suppose to listen to his father, the creator. If your going to use classic horror characters, don't ruin the character. Wolf Man was used in a decent way, and Dracula was done good besides the fact that he had a bunch of Oompa Loompa's running around doing all this work for him. What is he now, Willy Wonka?
The concept of how to kill Dracula was heavily modified, which is understandable considering it would be easy with the original garlic, stake through heart, and cross. I was hoping the way to kill Dracula would be better, but to end it the way it did made the story crap. The connections were way too easy to make, it didn't involve any thinking.
The action scenes were crap. I knew the action scenes would include CGI, but the whole damn thing was made with CGI! I mean, directors are getting so lazy nowadays. I was hoping for some battles that actually looked real.
Overall, probably one of the worse movies of the year so far. The only thing that kept me awake was seeing Ana, damn she's hot. Other then that, Hugh Jackman should stick to X-Men.
Plot: 6 Acting: 6 Direction: 5 Visuals: 5 Overall: (not an average) 6