The Little Vampire
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Movie Reviews of The Little Vampire
Movie Review: the Little Vampire
Summary: 3 Stars
I got it for my grandkids and they seem to like it enough. Not academy award stuff, but cute, family entertainment.Movie Review: The Little Vampire (DVD)
Summary: 2 Stars
Vampires are the violent, scary, oversexed denizens of the horror tradition. So what a surprise to find them flapping bat wings in a children's film.
Of course, the monsters in The Little Vampire are considerably toned down from the frightening undead of the Dracula myth. Now they're just the thing to entertain grade-school trick-or-treaters, though they're probably too scary for preschoolers and too tame for teens.
For openers, these vampires no longer suck human blood: They restrict their nocturnal feedings to cows.
With Mom and Dad vampire caring diligently for their three fang-sporting children, they also express family values more than most of today's Hollywood human families.
And when they befriend a young human (the easily lovable Jonathan Lipnicki), they treat him decently -- even taking him for moonlit flights.
Lipnicki (the bespectacled youngster from Jerry Maguire) plays Tony, a 9-year-old recently arrived in Scotland with his parents.
But Tony has found himself in the midst of a 300-year vampire legend -- an 18th-century aristocratic family from the region now roams the moors, while a mean-spirited vampire-killer pursues.
Tony befriends a boy (played by Rollo Weeks) who seems his age -- though he's actually been 9 for 300 years. The two help the vampire family battle the villainous vamp-killer, find a magic amulet and attempt to restore the vampires to humanity.
Enough of the plot makes sense to at least allow young viewers to enjoy these characters -- especially the adventurous Tony. The story reflects the overactive imagination of an out-of-sorts, recently uprooted boy.
The Little Vampire offers limited enjoyment, at best, for teen and adult viewers, but for its target crowd -- say, 7 to 11 -- it has some entertaining bite.
Movie Review: Not a children's movie
Summary: 1 Stars
I took my little nine year old brother to see this dud. What a terrible movie. I was expecting a light hearted children's film and instead what I got was a mean-spirited adventure in Christian bashing with scenes that have no place whatsoever in a film aimed at a young audience.
The producer's bigotry against Christians is evident right from the start in its depiction of the so-called "vampire hunter".
He is easily the most disturbing character in the film. For starters his oversized crucifix looks like it was produced at a Las Vegas neon sign factory and his vehicle is a nightmarish cross between a mac truck and a steel mill. If this was meant to be funny, believe me, it wasn't.
The worst scene that I saw is when the boy at the center of the film gets trapped in a crypt and a rather large black rat begins crawling towards him.
I am flabbergasted that someone would think of this as legitimate children's entertainment. Graves and rats! Are you kidding me?! Absolutely despicable.
Throw in more nightmarish images of flying cows and children being given dead mice as gifts and you've got yourself one horrendously bad/disturbing movie that doesn't belong anywhere near impressionable youngsters.
I took my little brother and walked out of the theater rather than subject to him to any more of this garbage.
Shame on the people who made this.