Critics, gimme a break

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2004)

Oh my god! This movie was freakin awesome. You literary nerds who say "well in bram stoker and mary shelly's novel thats not how it happened" can take this stake... You know where to stick it.
no movie is based on an original idea. they should be proud that they had the guts to come out and say "it is Frankinstine" and "it is Dracula" instead of making it some stupid movie that just happens to have a Vampire Lord in translvania, and a 7'7" monster made from corpses.
and you dorks who say "well, Van Helsing was an old dutch professor of the occult" can go give themselves a Holy Water enima because the creators who made the movie were not thinking "hey, lets make an accurate representation of the life of Stoker's character Van Helsing" but instead they said "hm, lets make a sweet action flick with all three classic Horror monsters... but who would be the hero? Well he'd have to be totally awesome, but we have no cool name for him. Oh lets call him 'Van Helsing' just cause he relates to Dracula." You understand? The character only got his name from the literary character. thats right, he is in no way supposed to be the novel character.

3rdly "Oh dear... whine... well i just cant accept a movie that is so different from the great classic novels and movies....boo hoo.."
Got news for you, buddy. why dont you go and rent those "classic" movies. Anyone who has half a brain can see that the classic movies are also very loosly based on the books. So don't cry to me about accuracy because no one did in the 1930s!
(sorry for ranting, but alot of people have griped at me when i told them i saw it, presenting these very same arguments)
Finally: Give it a freakin chance, ok? if your heads are too small to get by these statements that i have said, then you will probably not see it. well too bad for you. youre missing out on what might be the greatest monster mash ass-whuppin spree since the fight scenes in Lord of the Rings (as if there were any other kinds of scenes)
Ah well, Ive done my ranting for the day.
Those who have seen it, post here