Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.

A couple of days ago Danielle and I went to go see Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, as a compromise because she wanted to see "Couples' Retreat" and I wanted to see "Zombie Land" I was not very excited about this movie however I figured even if it was terrible it couldn't be worse than the alternative.

I was pleasantly surprised by this film. John C. Reilly is always at least marginally entertaining, and he really appears to be enjoying his role as Crepsley the vampire. Chris Massoglia does a good job playing the reluctant vampire-to-be Darren Shan, the only character that didn't really do it for me was the obnoxiously mysterious Mr. Tiny played by Michael Cervais however it may have been how the character was written as opposed to how he was portrayed.

The story follows a teen aged boy as circumstances force him to become a vampire set against the backdrop of a war between vampires who don't believe in killing their victims and vampires who do kill their victims, also called the vampaneze. 

The one thing that really grabbed me about this film was how the vampires were stylized, their powers are a little different from what they can do in most popular fiction. This is also why Twilight was so popular, however Cirque Du Freak appealed to me where Twilight could not, probably because it isn't completely retarded.  Despite being a movie aimed at young adults the flm had some really cool action scenes, with vampires fighting each other with their razor sharp and indestructible claws and super speed, there is also a scene where John C. Reilly and his evil counterpart have a knife fight, throwing and catching the same knife at each other several times while they slowly walk towards each other, this scene in particular struck me as really cool. 

To make a long story short I think this film was very entertaining and I reccommend that if you don't see it in theatres you at least rent it.