 | 映画原題: Van Helsing [ 映画邦題: ヴァン・ヘルシング ] |  | |  |  | |
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| Van Helsing : Hollywood Actor [CAST・CREW] : 出演ハリウッド俳優(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Van Helsing : 本国映画ライターによる映画の内容 with イングリッシュ : English Description of Story |  |  |  |  | Amazon.com:Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. A sequel is virtually guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon |  |  |  |  | | | |
| Van Helsing : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation | | | | |  I can't believe I'm saying this.... / 2005-12-25
This is one of my favorite DVD's. I NEVER would have picked it up on my own, but it was a gift and being too polite for my own good, I felt obligated to watch it. I'm so glad that I did. It is an over the top, action oriented, FUN adventure. The references to other monster flicks is well done, amusing and vastly entertaining. The special effects are incredible. It is like picking up a great comic book and watching it come to life! I liked the Mummy for the same sorts of reasons, but found this DVD to be even more entertaining than that. If you like the witty repartee of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will enjoy this script. | | | | | | | | | | | | BLADE, INDIANA JONES, an JAMES BOND all rolled into one / 2005-12-22
VAN HELSING does something extraordinary with Hugh Jackman. Prior to it, he was no almost entirely for role as Wolverine in the X-MEN movies; having him slated into the role of a 19th century monster hunter in the employ of the Vatican (finally, the Catholic Church's center of worship is good for something, and this is coming from a Catholic turned Christian-Universalist.) Hugh Jackman has become one of the most promising action-heroes to emerge from Hollywood since Slyvester Stallone spent a grueling three days scripting the first draft of ROCKY.
Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a phantom-like slayer of evil. Found nearly dead in the Vatican, stricken with amnesia (just like another character of Hugh's, Wolverine), Van Helsing now serves as the Vatican's Dark Knight, hunting Monster, evil-doers, and various threats to mankind. This, of course, has made him, in his own words, "the most wanted man in Europe." After vanqushing Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde, he and Friar Carl (David Wenham, whose character's name doesn't seem likely for a 19th century upand coming monk) journey to Translyvania in search of Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), whose brother Velkan (Will Kemp) has been Werewolf-ified by none other than Dracula himself (Richard Roxbourgh), who was Dr. Frankenstein's (Samuel West) financial backer. He and his three clevage-baring brides (Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran) are after Frankenstein's creature (Shuler Hensley) to study in order to bring to life Dracula's many still-born vampire babies, who being the children of dead people are born dead. It's up to Van Helsing to stop a vicious army of infant vampires from being unleashed upon the world.
Far more laden on special effects than Director Stephen Sommers MUMMY movies, VAN HELSING is so-action packed, it's a wonder why a sequel wasn't announced moths before VAN HELSING was even released. Hugh Jackman's been cemented as a rising action-hero, though. With X-MEN 3 in prodution and a solo WOLVERINE movie announced, Hugh's becoming an accentless Arnold Schwarzenegger. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he plays VAN HELSING again in the future.
| | | | | | | | | | | | This Movie in One Word: Fun / 2005-12-21
I really had my doubts about this film and by the end I couldn't believe how much fun I had. I, for one, liked all of the monsters on this film. The acting was fantastic; Richard made a great Dracula, Frankenstein's monster was sympathetic and Jackman made a great Van Helsing.
I'm one who is confused by all of the negativity of this film. It's a great thrill ride that is just fun to watch. I wouldn't mind it if they made Van Helsing II. It was great. | | | | | | | | | | | |  good story, bad monsters, bad special effects / 2005-12-20
Stephen Sommers used Dracula(1931 with Bela Lugosi), Frankenstein(1931 with Boris Karloff( and The Wolf Man(1941 with Lon Chaney, Jr.) to inspiried him to make the movie. He made a good story for Van Helsing, but he didn't think they were in a movie together before. Did he see Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein or House of Dracula?
It was a good story. I'm fine with that. But what's with these monsters and the special effects? How is this like a vampire, Frankenstein or a werewolf? I am not seeing the same kind of monsters and the special effect that are in An American Werewolf in London, Curse of Frankenstein and Interview with the Vampire. I do like Van Helsing, but why isn't he Abraham instead of Gabriel? | | | | | | | | | | | |  Witless tripe / 2005-11-30
The screenplay for this movie is terrible, the dialog is atrocious, the underscore is deplorably generic, and the film is neither funny nor scary nor anything except noisy and long and boring -- and the digital effects are pretty lame, too. An incredibly unsophistaced, moronic picture.
Another thing that's hard to swallow is that the gallery of evil creatures have such incredible powers, regular human beings shouldn't stand a chance against them, so the battles are completely uninteresting. It's like watching Muhammad Ali in his prime boxing Don Knotts: if Knotts isn't beaten to a pulp a few seconds into the first round -- and then goes on to win the fight after fifteen rounds -- who can take the fight seriously? Yet an analogous situation takes place in this film over and over and over again. How anyone finds this film enjoyable is beyond my powers of explantion. | | | | | | | | | |
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