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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThis creature feature is exhilarating fun, a richly designed and often quite funny re-exploration of the movie past.
- 80Dallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufDallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufThis beast is as subtle as a Red Bull enema, but it succeeds magnificently as compulsively watchable spectacle.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA movie that's underwritten, overdirected, overproduced and almost constantly over-the-top. But it's also, at its best, a big tongue-in-cheek extravaganza.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe sense of evil overkill is entirely representative of the picture itself, which repeatedly looks ready to blow all its fuses due to sensory overload.
- 50Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanUniversal Studios has unloaded its entire monster catalog in this movie, which is aimed at people with the attention span of a kindergartner. Shreds of coherence and character have been sacrificed to fangs and fisticuffs at every chance.
- 40EmpireEmpireThe result reaches overload very quickly, squandering the potentially cool premise in a headlong assault of set-piece over story.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanVan Helsing, a fusion of eye candy and brain sputter, is a long, kinetic, yet dreary mess.
- 25Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIn sum, Van Helsing is yet another video game disguised as a wide-screen epic. Here's hoping the box office drives a firm wooden stake through its hokey Hollywood heart.
- 20Film ThreatFilm ThreatSommers suspends the laws of time and physics and forces his characters to spout some of the cheesiest dialogue imaginable.
- 12ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere 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."