Van Helsing Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Silly and spectacular, and fun.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

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

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good." Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Here's a shrieking bore of a horror flick.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Sommers film just lies there, weighted down by a complete lack of wit, artfulness and internal logic. So it's a disaster -- a big, loud, boring wreck. Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

You have to feel for the army of talented FX people who must have spent months on scenes--trying to compensate, with their artistry, for the lack of dramatic logic--and having to listen to those lines over and over.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

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

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