The brand-name vampire hunter seen as an Indiana Jonesian swashbuckler, armed with a rapid-fire crossbow and saw-toothed boomerangs, rather than an ivory-tower savant: Hugh Jackman in gunslinger's garb rather than Peter Cushing in gentleman's get-up. What Stephen Sommers did for the Mummy, twice over, he now does for a horrific Dream Team made up of Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, and Mr. Hyde. Lest that be misconstrued as a compliment, let's be clear that what he does for them amounts to a steroidal disfigurement, an abomination against nature -- or, as you like, against art. (Sommers appears to have borrowed from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not just the Dream Team idea, but the particular misconception that Mr. Hyde is bigger than Dr. Jekyll, when the reverse should be the case.) It takes some doing, to give credit where due, to conceal completely the talent and the beauty of Kate Beckinsale; even Underworld couldn't do it; but this busy, noisy, instantaneously tiresome movie succeeds spectacularly on both counts. With David Wenham and Richard Roxburgh. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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