If you take this film as a family comedy, it is exeptable and works, a little. But if you take this film as a strict vampire film you may be dissapointed. The plot takes a kid and his family from San Diego to Scotland and the kid (played by Jonathan Lipnicki) starts to dream of vampires. Then, he meets them and befriends one of them and gets mixed up to get them turned into humans and to evade the evil vampire killer Rookery (Jim Carter).
Kids will find this film funny, adults might even have a very slight liking to it, and I didn't hate it. But I did have 2 problems with it as a vampire film in general- 1, why would anyone think that Scotland looks like this. After seeing Trainspotting, you get a feeling of Scotland actually being the lowest of the low and that two boys in the film (Ed Stoppard and Jake D'Arcy) could concievably become Renton and Begbie over time. And 2, why would so much hate be put on a vampire killer. Sure in the film the vampires are targeted by him and the targeter is the villain like "Snow Day", but remember, one films Jim Carter is another films Sir Anthony Hopkins (Bram Stoker's Dracula) or James Woods (Vampires). Overall, it's OK. B-
Kids will find this film funny, adults might even have a very slight liking to it, and I didn't hate it. But I did have 2 problems with it as a vampire film in general- 1, why would anyone think that Scotland looks like this. After seeing Trainspotting, you get a feeling of Scotland actually being the lowest of the low and that two boys in the film (Ed Stoppard and Jake D'Arcy) could concievably become Renton and Begbie over time. And 2, why would so much hate be put on a vampire killer. Sure in the film the vampires are targeted by him and the targeter is the villain like "Snow Day", but remember, one films Jim Carter is another films Sir Anthony Hopkins (Bram Stoker's Dracula) or James Woods (Vampires). Overall, it's OK. B-