SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

March 12, 2004 —

From UGO's review of the 'Van Helsing' script:

Sommers knows what he's doing, that much can't be argued. This is clearly the kind of movie he wants to make, and plenty of people want to see. It's these crafty marketing folks that make movie-going a bit more difficult, putting together trailers to sell a product that doesn't exist. The Van Helsing you see is not the Van Helsing you get, but a single frame of that trailer can tell you all you need to know. The credits that list one Stephen Sommers as the writer should trigger scenes in your memory from The Mummy and The Scorpion King, and there's no reason to believe this time around will be anything different. In fact, Van Helsing is a Stephen Sommers film, as he has come to make them, through and through. With The Mummy, he revisited numerous old monster films and instead of reinventing them, he simply updated them. He kept it light, but he made it flashy. Once again, Sommers takes the very familiar, but this time he assembles a story based on some far more recent movies, and though he doesn't keep it quite as light, it's every bit as simple and by-the-numbers as his last film. Van Helsing is the literary equivalent of a meal comprised entirely of leftovers, served on a silver platter. There's lots of good stuff we've all taken in before. So, how hungry are you for another mindless summer remake in disguise?

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