I laughed... I cried... but I don't think I'm supposed to.

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2004)

Doctor Victor Frankenstein creates his monster. The village mob is at the gates. Count Dracula and his three brides arrive to take Frankenstein's scientific conquest over God. He kills Frankenstein and leaves the windmill in fiery ruins. Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) and her brother Velkan are hunting a werewolf when Velkan is thrown off a cliff. Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) kills Mr. Hyde and has become the most wanted killer in Europe. His next assignment from a secret Catholic order is to hunt down Dracula. In a battle with Dracula's brides, he is joined by Anna.
This is one of those movies that are SO over the top, that it is difficult to criticize. Although, I certainly will try. The action is non-stop, the acting is atrocious, and the story is completely convoluted. The accents by the actors are so bad that it was laughable. At times, I actually did laugh. The brides are wild. They seem to be channeling old style acting from the silent era horrors.
I do have to give the movie credit. It doesn't care. As the movie gets more silly, the action piles on. It gets crazier and it's a mess. The CGI is non-stop. I watched this in the theater with a group of friends and nobody liked it. We were left shaking our heads in exasperation.