Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

[Fr0dders]

Went to see this over the weekend with the Mrs

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450405/

Have to say i was pleasantly surprised with how enjoyable it was. Its had some quite bad write ups, but i found it really enjoyable.

Pleasantly different from the much hyped twilight series, and with plenty to keep you engaged - a nice mix of humour, action, suspense and without a plot thats too complicated to follow.

You can tell the book is part of a series of trilogies, the author of the books (written in 2000, 5 years before the twilight novels) wrote 4 trilogies in total, and it showed with lots of questions un-answered, to be answered in the later films.

But apart from that, a really enjoyable film.

 

[Sime]

Yep I agree with basically everything you said, enjoyable film

 

[eggyoke]

Yeah I went to see it with my sister and her kids. I was actually quite surprised how enjoyable it was considering its targeted audience. Unlike something like Twilight that I found gut-wrenchingly awful and which has now been turned into some sort of sickening benchmark for young people around the world.

Theres a very lucrative and niche market in the Vampire fiction/movie world and that's why we're constantly seeing things with "Vampires" in. The refreshing thing about Cirque du Freak is that you can tell it doesn't bend over backwards to please the angst driven teenage market. Its probably because the books where written before the craze began, thus not being tainted by the Twilight disease.

 

[Yas786]

Saw this Sat night with the gf and have to say it was pretty good...wouldnt say it was stand out for me but nonetheless it was pretty decent.

Saw UP on sunday with her little one and that i enjoyed very much.

 

[FinBen]

The books were truly awesome, though I'm not sure they'll have the guts to use the same series ending in the films.

Apart form the unecessary addition of a love interest it's a good film, and sticks close enough to the books to give me hope!

 

[maniacavenger]

The books were incredible, but i dont know about the film, since i havent seen it yet.