Can you say "UGH"?

Rating: 2/10 (12 February 2005)

This movie was a snoozer... literally. My father and I went to see Dawn of the Dead at the drive in, the same night that Van Helsing opened, and it happened to be playing after DOTD, so we decided to give it a try. Well, it was just about at the Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde scene that we turned on the car and left. It was mainly because of all the CGI, we just didn't like it. Well, here we are several months later, and we decide to give it a second try, so we went out and rented it last night. Well, we made it past the scene that we stopped at previously, but it was right after Van Helsing fights off the three badly CGI'd vampires and kills one, that I rolled over and went to sleep. The storyline was painful, there was more computer created characters than in Shrek, and the scenes were badly written. If someone were to ask me if they should watch this, I would STRONGLY recommend not doing so.
I had real hopes for this film, as I am a huge Universal Monsters fan, but it strongly disappointed me.
However, this is only my opinion, however strong it may be. If you are into CGI crap and a strongly clichéd action film, then see this.. if not, then avoid.
-KruegerChild