05-10-2004, 07:16 PM
It was fun and trashy. No character development whatsoever. It's simplest to describe as the most expensive gothic cartoon ever.
It's gorgeous to look at, and the special effects are lots of fun. But it could have been so much more - the best sequences are the ones with actual sets and scenes, and little CGI. The masquerade ball, for example, is the best visual scene I've scene so far this year, possibly rivaled by the Pei Mei chapter in Kill Bill Vol. 2.
The references (tributes? rip-offs?) come so fast and furious that I lost count in the first 5-minute black and white sequence. Probably the funniest one is when the werewolf does a Wylie Coyote imitation (twice!) and falls off an enormous cliff, seen from overhead, with complete silence and that tiny little *poof* in the center of the screen.
:lol:
It's that kind of movie.
It's gorgeous to look at, and the special effects are lots of fun. But it could have been so much more - the best sequences are the ones with actual sets and scenes, and little CGI. The masquerade ball, for example, is the best visual scene I've scene so far this year, possibly rivaled by the Pei Mei chapter in Kill Bill Vol. 2.
The references (tributes? rip-offs?) come so fast and furious that I lost count in the first 5-minute black and white sequence. Probably the funniest one is when the werewolf does a Wylie Coyote imitation (twice!) and falls off an enormous cliff, seen from overhead, with complete silence and that tiny little *poof* in the center of the screen.
:lol:
It's that kind of movie.