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The Little Vampire | Year: 2000 Classification: Feature Film Family Directed: - Uli Edel Actors/Actresses: - Alice Krige - Jonathan Lipnicki - Richard E. Grant - Rollo Weeks When Lovely Kids Fly with Wings.... Not a Bad Family Picture As its title and contents suggest, "The Little Vampire" is a film made mainly for kids in mind, and you cannot disguise that fact in any way. But the film works pretty well as such, and though adults may feel sleepy sitting beside kids, children would enjoy watching the hectic adventure of Tony, played by sweet brother of "Stuart Little," Jonathan Lipnicki. And in this country, instead of pigs, cows can fly, too. Funny rather than scary, isn't it? (but I feel otherwise should I see that). The film is set in Scotland where newly-moved Tony meets Little Vampire Rudolph. They soon establish unlikely friendship, and join in great adventure with his vampire sister, to seek for a red stone that can turn them and their clan to humans. The story is simple as that. But the charm of the film lies not there; for you can enjoy the good cast, especially Lipnicki and newcomer Rollo Weeks, playing together as two darling kids. Apparently, the risky factors of the original stories by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg are subdued for younger children. But that is the point, and certainly that makes the film less scarier for them to watch. Frankly I thought the film's script may look too basic for adults, but it was a long, long time ago when I was a kid, and I must admit that I might have felt differently watching this film back then. So, no more complaint. It is interesting to notice, however, that some of the gags are meant for adult audience (but not many), and one of them is a parody of famous scene of "Shining." It was not particularly a good one though, but what I was thrilled to see was Rudolph's aristocratic parents played flamboyantly by Richard E. Grant and Alice Krige. As you know, Grant was in Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" while Krige was "Borg Queen" in the "Star Trek: First Contact," and the latter's hairstyle here ineveitably led my mind to that film. These facts justly make an impressive entry of this film into a cult classic. An Awesome Movie! This movie is about a boy named Tony (Johnathon Lipnicki) who comes across a vampire named Rouldoph (Rollo Weeks) and befriends him. Together they work together to break the vampire spell and retrieve a stone. This movie definetley deserves a five-star rating because it has a little bit of everything such as comedy, action, etc! I also thought the actors were very well at playing their part(s)! Especially Johnathon Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant Rollo Weeks! If there is a part 2 to this movie and Johnathon Lipnicki and Rollo Weeks play in it, I'm there! You'd be suprised, I'm eleven and didn't think this movie would be good, but now it's one of the best movies I've ever seen (#1 to be more excact).Johnathon Lipnicki and Rollo Weeks could become the next Hollywood stars! Definetley go see this movie! Remember: If you like the first movie with Johnathon Lipnicki and Rollo Weeks, go see part 2 (if they make one)! I'll be there for sure (only if Rollo Weeks and Johnathon Lipnicki play in it!)! Not a children's movie I took my little nine year old brother to see this dud. What a terrible movie. I was expecting a light hearted children's film and instead what I got was a mean-spirited adventure in Christian bashing with scenes that have no place whatsoever in a film aimed at a young audience. The producer's bigotry against Christians is evident right from the start in its depiction of the so-called "vampire hunter". He is easily the most disturbing character in the film. For starters his oversized crucifix looks like it was produced at a Las Vegas neon sign factory and his vehicle is a nightmarish cross between a mac truck and a steel mill. If this was meant to be funny, believe me, it wasn't. The worst scene that I saw is when the boy at the center of the film gets trapped in a crypt and a rather large black rat begins crawling towards him. I am flabbergasted that someone would think of this as legitimate children's entertainment. Graves and rats! Are you kidding me?! Absolutely despicable. Throw in more nightmarish images of flying cows and children being given dead mice as gifts and you've got yourself one horrendously bad/disturbing movie that doesn't belong anywhere near impressionable youngsters. I took my little brother and walked out of the theater rather than subject to him to any more of this garbage. Shame on the p the allure of the people in it. There are lighter, more charming films around, but there are few as ultimately rewarding. Buy The Little Vampire at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Little Vampire Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Little Vampire This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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