Carl is a typical goofball sidekick we've seen Matthew Lillard do dozens of times. She also defies gravity and pain in a manner worthy of Charlie's Angels. Beckinsale, so gorgeous in Underworld, looks like an idiot here, wearing a horrendous wig and sporting a bad accent. Killing off Josie Maran's character early on didn't sit well with me, either. His brides overact to such a ridiculously corny degree they make the Wicked Witch of the West look like Judi Densch. Dracula is about as menacing as Count Chocula and sounds like him, too. Pitch Black looked more realistic and they did it for $23 million. Where do I begin? For all that money, the CG is painfully cheap to look at. In Transylvania, he's greeted about as warmly as a leper, and almost immediately ends up in a fight with Dracula's three harpy wives. After a segment reminiscent of Q's lab in a James Bond movie, Van Helsing sets off with his sidekick, goofball friar Carl (David Wenham). Conveniently, brother Velkan is thought killed (instead, he turns into a werewolf) and sister Anna (Kate Beckinsale) is all that's left. Their family would never be able to Heaven until Dracula is dead, and the two are all that's left of nine generations. If that weren't enough, he also has to protect the last two members of the Valerious family. Dracula needs Frankenstein's monster because he is the key to the machinery that will give everlasting life to thousands of his little bloodsuckers. He is to kill Dracula before he can complete an experiment that will allow vampires to populate the globe. He gets his next assignment, in Transylvania. Turns out Van Helsing is somewhat of an indentured servant and his rather harsh methods haven't made them very happy, either. He returns to the Vatican, where we find an underground base for the Knights of the Holy Rose, an organization consisting of all of the world's religions.

Jeckyl and the revelation that Van Helsing's efforts are not liked nor appreciated. Van Helsing (Jackman) is chasing after Mr. The creature is thought destroyed, and we cut to Paris 1888. However, the mob with pitchforks and torches shows up to ruin the celebration, as Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) points out. Frankenstein bringing his monster (Shuler Hensley) to life. Opening in black and white, a nice touch, we see Dr.

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