Van Hellyeah!

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2014)

It's not a great movie, its not Citizen Kane, yet Van Helsing is very much more watchable than Citizen Kane, no offense intended to Orson Welles. Its a ridiculous movie, as much homage as it's camp, but all the time action scenes dominate- Van Helsing is like a James Bond movie where he fights MGM classic monsters. It relies too heavily on CGI although in comparison to any of the Transformer movies, Van Helsing shows restraint. It's a stupid movie, cartoonish in both character development and plot, but as a whole miraculously works. The secret to what makes Van Helsing so watchable- the movie is of no significant moral or social value. I pray they make a sequel, Van Helsing 2 Dracula's Revenge!