Poorly written Euro Trash by a Bad director

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2004)

Directed/Writer Stephen Sommers single-handedly destroys the established myths of the universal monsters.
I will never watch another movie by him again.
If you can't (as a fan) do justice to the trilogy of horror history, you are pathetic. Stephen Sommers is pathetic.
Too much CGI. Too much action. Too loud. Too stupid.
The biggest insult: The werewolf doesn't know he could have killed Dracula all along? Wasn't that obvious to everyone in the first five minutes of the film.
The worst rendition of Dracula EVER: A sissy Dracula? who dances and struts with a pony tail and a barrette? I don't want my Dracula fey!!
What was with Anna? She starts with this preposterous Romanian accent and LOSES it half way through the movie.
PLOT? What plot? We're suppose to believe the three brides gave birth to thousands of mutant bats in sacks!!!????
And now Sissy Drac needs the Frankenstein monster to animate them??
Loved the American accent on Frankenstein. What the hell!!
Soooo -- Van Helsing works for the catholics? In an underground Church, with monks and priests designing James Bond weapons? And he's an angel (which was never fully explained to my satisfaction) an angel who will father Abraham Van Helsing? What??!!
If any other studio had produced this -- I would have waved my hand and skipped the movie. Shame on you Universal!
How many times did these poor heroes have to get knocked down, thrown around before anyone developed more than a dab of blood on the corner of their mouths.
Why turn Van Helsing into a werewolf to kill Dracula when you already had a werewolf character who is related to Dracula? Shouldn't Anna's brother kill the vampire.
And what is this crap that no one knows how to kill a VAMPIRE. SINCE WHEN!!
Sommer's wasn't paying homage to these great characters, he thinks so high and mighty of himself that he wanted to create his own version, which sucked. DIDN'T ANYONE watch him, didn't anyone CARE for the preservation of HISTORY.
Have we raised this generation to buy into what we are told to buy into? This sold tickets -- Sommer's will be back like a bad squeal. As bad as Mummy Part 2 was!!
Once again, Sommer's, exhibits no class. He tosses crap at the screen and hopes something will stick.