Things wrong with this movie...

Rating: 1/10 (17 August 2012)

1. Abraham Van Helsing, PROFESSOR ABRAHAM Van Helsing was a German man living in Amsterdam and with a Dutch name, who lead the band of heroes in defeating Dracula in the original novel by Bram Stoker. He was a wise, older man, not an action hero, not an angel with amnesia. The fact that he was NOT a youthful action hero was kind of the point. In fact the character most like Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing (the Texan, Quincey Morris) was the one who DIED in the Dracula novel while PROFESSOR Van Helsing survived. It was his cunning and wisdom that defeated Dracula, not a rapid fire cross bow and Dresden Files-esque duster.
2. MAMMALS DO NOT LAY EGGS!!! WHY would female vampires, who used to be human, who take the form of bats (a MAMMAL) lay eggs!?? 3. Why would God erase Gabriel's memory to punish him? How is it a punishment if you don't know you're being punished or why? 4. Why give Dracula the name Vladislaus Dracula (what the Historical Vlad The Impaler signed his name as on documents) yet turn him into a gypsy with a birth age and date of death that don't add up. (Seriously, it claims he's in his twenties when you do the math. Richard Roxburough is NO twenty year old), just so that he can incestuously go after a gypsy descendant? 5. Why did Van Helsing show pity toward the Frankenstein creature but not The Wolfman or Jekyll. The reasoning is the creature didn't choose to be what he is but Jekyll never intended to create Hyde and the werewolf never asked to be bitten. It. does. Not. make. Sense.
6. Why would the Vatican want to destroy an intelligent and apparently non-violent being? 7. I'm tired of the new clichÃ© of action films (and anime) using The Vatican as some covert group of spies and assassins going after supernatural threats.
8. WHY would a werewolf bite kill Dracula? If you read the novel he LIKED wolves, he called them the children of the night and went out of his way to calm and pet the trapped wolves at the London zoo. He can take wolf form himself! He was in the form of a wolf or "large dog" when he got off the Demeter in Whitby. Has no one actually read the novel!??