Monday, 5 August 2013

#vampire problems

Vamps (2012)

Written and directed by Amy Heckerling this film stars Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver. Two female vampires living in college find that eternal life is not all it's cracked up to be.

While this film is supposed to be a comedy it does sort of lack actual jokes and the dramatic growth the main characters have shows up far too late, pretty much out of nowhere. Mostly the script comes across as too interested in the superficial elements, there are some nods to the idea of people trying to stay young past their time but this is a token effort. When it comes to the casting both Silverstone and Ritter strike me as about 10 years too old for their roles as supposedly eternal 20 somethings, most of the rest of the execution of the film is pretty bland.


2/5

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