Review - Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Ok now I finally sorted out my month free unlimited movies card, so I decided to start watching movies and reviewing them.

Since today I had just a hour tutorial I decided to watch a movie at the cinema, so I decided to pick....

Film: Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant.

Director: Paul Weitz

Writers: Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland

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

Ok this movie looked low budget with actors in the trailer, but it did look like a interesting and unique storyline which convinced me to watch it. I have never been so mistaken in my life when i finally watched it and thought how amazing it was.

Storyline: Ok the storyline was about a circus of freaks coming to town and changing a boy everyday normal life with unexpected twists. The boy called Darren then meets this vampire in the circus act which leads to events where he has to leave his life and become a vampire.

( very interesting storyline and unique, also a very magical and funny storyline as well)
Camera: Start of the movie there was a good panning shot left to right then vica verser to show the crowd at the funeral scene, this seemed effective.

Actors: Ok not exactly the best of acting seriously, it was really stupid in a lot of scenes though the characters and storyline supported the acting well, which means didn't care about the acting.

Special Effects/Edits/Other: The special effects I really liked, for example the vampire speed was a interesting way to represent it with a purplish color zooming everywhere. I also thought there was a scene which was done really well (Kid talking how all parents want off him is college, job, family, this had a cut for each one showing a preview). This reminded me something that the TV show Scrubs would do with funny cuts.

Watching this movie made me see how important color actually is since throughout the movie I can remember seeing a lot of red hinting danger/warning.
Overall: I really enjoyed this movie and recommend it to people who haven't seen it, very funny at least and interesting storyline
7/10

My own review (Merlin 2009 series)

Ok this is a new series i have been enjoying since it came out, its already on season two with a new episode every week on Saturdays around 6-7 (or watch it on BBC iplayer.
I love the whole fantasy/magic theme and really interested in old times about merlin/dragons so this series is perfect because its based in those times. Unlike the Sam Neill's Merlin series which done in 1998, the New 2008/2009 Merlin series with Colin Morgan, is a lot more deeper into the storyline and magic.
Every week you get more knowledge how Merlin started out and how King Arther became to be. Besides the deep plot in the storyline which grabs your attention and gets you addicted to whats going happen next,which i do like, im mainly interested in the special effects for spells in this and how they make realistic looking creatures such as Trolls.

(Old 1998- 2nd favourite of mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW7lYb9gRf4#

(New 2008/2009 so far- 1st favourite of mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUbLHspSkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQmPm_QJTs

As you can tell, the 1st was really old looking and more into the history feel too it, while the new one is more modern and interesting.

Anyways its a must watch :) if like special effects and magic/Merlin like, its good storyline too. King Uther banned magic from Camelot kingdom and Merlin has to protect while hiding his magic :).