Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Vanyal Ashkevron I am a huge fan of Sergio Bonelli comics and this film was a pleasant surprise. Whereas the setting and the plot of the film is ... well... Americanised, it does still manage to capture some of the feel of the original comic books. Which is a good thing. If Europeans weren't so bent on everything being 100% accurate, maybe we would have more of these films and more people would familiarise themselves with Italian and French comics.Cons: It has no plot to speak of, it fails to transfer 80% of Dylan Dog's character, it's in the wrong city, in the wrong country, on the wrong continent and lacks some major characters.Pros: It's on the right planet! The main character is there :P And it's fun! You will actually laugh out loud. Partially because some bits are funny and partially because the plot is so silly, but you will laugh. Which is always a plus in a horror film. It does manage to capture 20% of Dylan Dog's character which is more than any other film made on European comic book heroes. Big plus for that! It doesn't take itself too seriously and is a great way to pass the time while waiting for Supernatural season 11. It has the right atmosphere. I was very impressed with that. It feels like a film based on a comic book and that's very important to me. The acting is actually decent and on occasion even good! Brandon Routh looks hot in his one Dylan Dog suit he has. What more do you want? In short, I think anyone who likes comic books in general and is a fan of films and series like Interview with the Vampire, Supernatural and such should like this film. If you are a fan of original comics, try and watch this with an open mind (repeat after me: limited budget, must be commercial a bit). If you've never read the original comics, you'll just enjoy it and maybe you'll even grab a comic book after you've seen the film. So it's all good.

William Russell "Dylan Dog: Dead of Night" could easily be compared to a movie on the SyFy channel. The visual effects were lackluster, and the chemistry between actors was inadequate. However entertaining, "Dylan Dog: Dead of Night" is like a dessert that had been prepared with every ingredient imaginable. We all know the outcome will not taste good. Overall, besides the near constant creature violence and disturbing imagery, there is some rough language sprinkled throughout the script, a comparatively mild sex scene. The movie's weird, and at times morbid - sense of humor is out of place and is probably better written on the page of a comic book. There are several reasons why the film did not do good in box offices, one being that not many people had ever heard of this character and there were a select few that had read the comics or had heard of him through the advertising (honestly, this film's advertisements didn't do it any justice) who had gone to the theaters to see this. Another reason being the fact that Brandon Routh really needs to consider re-entering acting school or something, because every single movie I've seen him in I have regretted seeing. I came apron this film on Netflix instant (I own an Apple TV). It was categorized under super-hero films, I had seen the advertisements, and heard critic's and fan's mixed reviews, so I decided to check it out. Honestly, It wasn't a waste of time, so therefore I think it's underrated by critics, however it definitely had room for improvement (as do many movies). I believe that my rating is accurate - it doesn't deserve anything above or below a 6/10.

nomdesouris-1 To be fair, if this film had been released twenty years earlier, I'd be quite fond of it. But that's the point - it's nearly 30 years past its sell-by date. Wikipedia informs me that the comic book upon which it is based was published in 1986 - i.e. a few years after the iconic 'American Werewolf In London' movie, and 6 years before Joss Whedon's seminal'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. As such, the characterisation, plot twists etc are very much of its time.Unfortunately, this movie was released in 2010. That means its audience is liable to be familiar with not just Buffy and AWIL but also more recent iterations of the comedy/horror/drama genre such as 'Blade', 'True Blood', 'Scream', 'The Vampire Diaries', 'Supernatural' etc etc. If you want to use a source text that's several decades out of date, in a genre that has thrived in the intervening time, then you need to bring your A Game as a writer, and demonstrate that you're aware of what's gone before, and that you've got something fresh to bring to the table.I cannot help thinking that this film was purely churned out because the rights holder, whoever they may be, realised that they'd got the rights to something involving vampires and was hoping to jump on the Twilight bandwagon. (Not that this has anything in common with Twilight beyond vampires, but for the life of me I can't imagine what possessed anyone to cough up the money to make this movie other than that faint hope of cashing in on the zeitgeist.) Alas, the comedy is leaden, the writing is witless, stilted and painfully out of date, and the entire premise (I'm trying to be cagey but this bit might be countered a trifle SPOILERY) is ultimately bogged down in tired misogynistic tropes.The one good think I can say about it is that Sam Huntingdon, in a supporting role, makes the most of the shoddy material he's given. That's always the sign of a good actor - when they can take duff writing and still make it enjoyable to watch. I felt really quite sorry for him, being stuck in such a lacklustre production, when he's evidently a pretty capable actor.If you stumble across this late at night on TV, you may find it cheesily enjoyable. If, on the other hand, you've paid cold hard cash for it in a movie theatre, you would be forgiven for feeling that you're due a refund.

frankbald I just don't understand why these producers needed to do this movie. Dylan Dog is not worldwide famous, so you are going to adapt it from the comics to a movie you do it only for the real supporters and they would like the most faithful transposition possible. And this way maybe other people would have been curious and willful to discover Dylan. Instead they made this bad movie, with a really awful ending, without soul, and totally distant from the atmosphere of the comics. I wonder also how the Italian editors and creators gave the permission to do it and why they didn't even try to make a good story. I think they should have written directly the script giving also strict rules to follow to be totally near the real Dylan. I think they gave up all of this for money and that's really sad