Story is lame, too much effects, ridicules mythology.. maybe nice for children..

Rating: 4/10 (15 August 2009)

I think this movie was quite miserable because:
The story was lame, predictable and sometime really melodramatic. The actor choice for Dracula was bad, Dracula can't look or behave that way. And the big problem I have about this movie that it completely ridicules mythology: I know a lot about mythology and old horror classics and I would study it if it was possible and I can say that this movie had a lot of mistakes. Like that you need silver against Vampires -> no you need wood, silver is against werewolves and Vampires can't transform into harpies or walk on walls or make children, this is just ridiculous to me... and that were just 3 examples out of maaaany...
Also what I didn't like was the huge number of special effects... there weren't so much scenes without them ... and these effect weren't done really well ... not for a 2004 movie.
The tension was almost on the same level for the whole movie.. low
and also Bram Stoker's idea of the character van Helsing gets completely ridiculed because in the original he was just an old Doctor who found out what Count Dracula was and how to kill him..... And now people will think of van Helsing as some kind of comic-style Vampire Hunter...
What was good: Hugh Jackman, though for the first minutes I couldn't stop laughing over his hair.... They brought in a lot of known characters: Werewolves, Vampires, Mr Hyde, Frankenstein "Igor".... but this also might count as a minus point cause it's really too much....
It could be a movie for children from 9-13... but all other people shouldn't watch this...