Van Helsing Critic Reviews

This creature feature is exhilarating fun, a richly designed and often quite funny re-exploration of the movie past. Read the full review

Silly and spectacular, and fun.Read the full review

The sense of evil overkill is entirely representative of the picture itself, which repeatedly looks ready to blow all its fuses due to sensory overload.Read the full review

The dashing Jackman plays his part well enough, but the script doesn't provide sufficient "Indiana Jones"-style bons mots to win us over. Read the full review

Despite the rococo obsessiveness of its special effects and its voracious sampling of past horror movies, Van Helsing is mostly content to offer warmed-over allusions and secondhand thrills. Read the full review

Kind of like a basketball team of all-stars -- no names, please -- that has difficulty jelling into one smooth and efficient unit. Read the full review

The effect for viewers is that of having inserted one's head in a kettledrum that is being pounded on by drunken monkeys. Read the full review

We haven't had a good Frankenstein, Dracula, or Wolf Man movie in a long time, so here's one where the whole gang shows up. One catch: It's not good. Read the full review

Van Helsing, a fusion of eye candy and brain sputter, is a long, kinetic, yet dreary mess. Read the full review