![]() Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless. Tiny and its hard not to be dumbstruck by 'Crique du. All you need to know is that the movie is a setup for sequels that I hope never come. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between. Skip to the end where theyre now mortal enemies in a climactic battle for the fate of the world orchestrated by a grandiose figure named Mr. ![]() Reilly, giving the film the few laughs it has). But Darren does get bitten by redheaded vampire Larten Crepsley (John C. Newcomer Chris Massoglia plays Darren, the blind teen who gets involved with the freaks (it’s not that I can’t tell you how, I just don’t want to). From Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009): During a freak show, two youngsters find themselves in a difficult situation when the ringmaster turns out to be a vampire. The Cirque du Freak itself has flavor with sexy Salma Hayek as the bearded lady, 30 Rock‘s Jane Krakowski as a limb regenerator and especially stage actor supreme Michael Cerveris ( Tommy, Sweeney Todd), swathed in foam rubber as the fatso villain, Mr. But the mess onscreen does no one any favors. ![]() Director and co-writer Paul Weitz claims he loves the series, and Weitz’s credits - he and his brother Chris Weitz gave us American Pie and About a Boy - got my attention. Do we really need another vampire movie? Well, this one is based on a popular tweener series of a dozen books by British writer Darren Shan. ![]()
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