I just wanna say I hate this movie a lot. I havn’t seen it, but it really screws up my vanity searches. 
Eh, it was worth it for the guy eye candy and laughing at David Wenham.
It just kind of annoyed me that all of the plot basically developed whenever Dracula would open his mouth and start rambling. Show, don’t tell, isn’t that a fundamental of writing?
Shirtless Jackman. Shirtless Kemp.
That’s all I have to say. 
I saw it Saturday. Not too bad, really. Like Thaumaturge said, I don’t go to these kinds of movies expecting a plot, so I wasn’t that disappointed.
I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had gone into it knowing that it was the first of a series. I didn’t find out there were plans for a sequal until reading this thread, so the movie makes a little more sense now.
Besides, it had Jackman with no shirt, and several times, no less! Just because of that, the movie has an A in my book 
It was good enough for a matinee. The music was atrocious though. Nothing memorable, far too loud, inappropriately timed. There was one musical sting at a point when Kate B’s character turns to face the camera that made me laugh out loud.
CGI was hit and miss. Hyde was awful. Vampires were okay. Werewolves were good.
When, oh when, will filmmakers stop doing that thing where they throw up something grotesque and loud at the viewer suddenly, just to elicit a cheap startle?
Loved the interpretation of the Frankenstein Monster. Loved loved loved. He even got an amusing ‘Fire Bad’ moment, though he didn’t actually say the words.
I could accept Dracula’s overacting most of the time, except one or two of his more pompous speeches… (“I’m hollow…”) … the Brides, though… yikes. Fire the dialect coach, and burn his house to the ground and salt the Earth. Just yikes.
Worst thing about it? Could’ve easily been so much better. It’s a great concept for a movie. It had good stars. Obviously had a good budget.
And vampire pod children? What the hell?
The writer surprised me once… the situation in Budapest.
Did not expect the house to be full of vampires.
I loved that part. Specifically because it was so amazingly pompous and oer-the-top. Made my whole day.
Other than the few minutes of Hot Werewolf Action, I wasn’t impressed.
[spoiler]The scene where they broke the Rose Window in Notre Dame irritated me for quite awhile afterwards. I hate it when movies destroy priceless works of art. It just makes my willing suspension of disbelief give up and go home.
Flying horses? Looked completely unrealistic and I don’t understand why they could do this in the first place.
And enough with the screaming/wailing harpie-chicks!!! I couldn’t WAIT until they were killed and finally shut up.[/spoiler]
I was hoping for a fun Mummy-esque type film and was quite disappointed. I did like how Frankenstein was portrayed with the power sources in his head and heart.
I’m not even sure I will own the DVD when it comes out. I may, just for the awesome CGI werewolf work. I’m so glad we were spared the Hairless Baboon Beasts from “American Werewolf in Paris”.
This was just another decent but not great popcorn muncher in my opinion. It was kind of a LXG and Mummy Returns mix. Jackman never got the chance to show the personality that he does in the X Men movies. The pace of the movie was pretty frantic, jumping from one action sequence to another. They probably could have made a better movie if it was a little more horror and a little less action adventure, but that might not have scored as well at the box office.
Btw, I also thought Underworld was fine for what it was.
Not me; after 45 minutes I walked out and told the manager how bad the movie sucked and he gave me my money back.
Now I want my 45 minutes back too.
I saw it a few hours ago- it was a chaotic travesty of classic monster films but I had fun. Yeah, I’d have loved to have seen a film on how a devout Catholic Dutch physician became the nemesis of the Vampire King but I knew that’s not what I was gonna be getting. I did expect it to be somewhat removed in time from Stoker’s DRACULA (like a century earlier) so there could be a later link, so I was disappointed there. And the LXG movie Mr Hyde was … odd & laughable (btw, to those who don’t know, VH’s Dracula was the same actor who was LXG’s Dr Jekyll).
I did like the Dracula (btw, Draculea was indeed a spelling used by Prince Vlad as well as Drakulya- but couldn’t they have gotten the dates right- 1430-76 if I recall correctly) AND the Frankenstein Monster (and the actor playing Dr F did a fine tribute to Colin Clive- “It’s alive! It’s alive!”)- the WolfMen not so much. The Vampire Coccoon were kinda cool. And ain’t nothing wrong with Buxom Gypsy Princesses & Vampire Brides!
It was fun, OK!
One more thing- it’s not like the old Universal films were sticklers for literary authenticity- I mean, “HENRY” Frankenstein?