Look, can someone please explain to me why people still treat the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie much more kindly than this? They're both great action-adventure films based on the classic Universal Monsters, but The Mummy seems to get a pass, despite some distractingly dated CG, while Van Helsing gets unnecessarily shit on. Sure, it has some dated CG as well, though nowhere near as bad as in The Mummy (1999). This deserves better and y'all done it dirty.
I think this film's reception proves why Universal will never succeed in getting a Dark Universe off the ground. For anyone like myself, who grew up watching things like Young Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and The Monster Squad, as well…