Let me reiterate - Kate Beckinsale is really yummy. I'd happily accept her on toast, but I'd have to fight Nina for the privelege. And the ending was unnecessary from a narrative viewpoint. Wolverine, I mean Hugh Jackman, was fun, although it really was eerie watching Wolverine wander around in a vampire flick. (By that I do not mean that Jackman can't get ouside of the Wolverine persona, but at various times the writer is clearly writing Wolverine, which is odd). Faramir reprising the role of Christian Slater in Name of the Rose was also fun to watch, and I expected Frankenstein's Monster to break into 'Puttin' on the Ritz' at any moment, even though he was being chased by Harpies, but all of that was still not enough to save the film. In fact, fundamentally, all of that was the problem - pick a storyline and stick with it. As it was, they tried to jam entirely too much into entirely too little, and ended up with disjointed pastiche that wasn't quite pretty enough or funny enough to overcome being a disjointed pastiche that was very pretty. Ripping off Alan Moore's Mr Hyde and the Young Frankenstein intro ala Wizard of Oz was really nice. And having Riff-Raff wandering around a Transylvanian village as an undertaker was apropos, but it was still Just Too Much...
Did I mention the flick was a total pastiche that didn't quite work?
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Date: 2004-05-10 01:27 pm (UTC)Kate Beckinsale is really yummy. I'd happily accept her on toast, but I'd have to fight Nina for the privelege. And the ending was unnecessary from a narrative viewpoint.
Wolverine, I mean Hugh Jackman, was fun, although it really was eerie watching Wolverine wander around in a vampire flick. (By that I do not mean that Jackman can't get ouside of the Wolverine persona, but at various times the writer is clearly writing Wolverine, which is odd).
Faramir reprising the role of Christian Slater in Name of the Rose was also fun to watch, and I expected Frankenstein's Monster to break into 'Puttin' on the Ritz' at any moment, even though he was being chased by Harpies, but all of that was still not enough to save the film. In fact, fundamentally, all of that was the problem - pick a storyline and stick with it. As it was, they tried to jam entirely too much into entirely too little, and ended up with disjointed pastiche that wasn't quite pretty enough or funny enough to overcome being a disjointed pastiche that was very pretty.
Ripping off Alan Moore's Mr Hyde and the Young Frankenstein intro ala Wizard of Oz was really nice. And having Riff-Raff wandering around a Transylvanian village as an undertaker was apropos, but it was still Just Too Much...
Did I mention the flick was a total pastiche that didn't quite work?