CGI monsters on the loose - Call Van Helsing: Special Effects killer

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 2004)

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Van Helsing has an assignment from the Vatican: Hunt down these evil, out of control special effects before they overload the moviegoers brain. OOOOOHHHH! Too late. Summer movie overdose has fried any sense of fun left.
"Van Helsing" has all the movie elements that I would normally enjoy very much. So why was I bored watching it? This movie is the epitome of "too much of a good thing". Non stop special effects dilute your senses. This movie is trying to entertain you via a sledgehammer to the back of your head. My head is killing me.
On the plus side, the werewolf was appropriately vicious. The Dracula babes were sucktastic and Frankenstein's monster had a cool look to him. But the movie's reliance on special effects exposes the monsters for the fake creations they are. I knew Van Helsing was battling computer effects, not killer beasts. Ho hum. The end battle between Dracula and Van Wolfman was so obviously fake that I had to give in to the sledgehammer's warm embrace and call it a day. Zzzzzzzz.