Movie Details
| Title: | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | |
| Director: | Paul Weitz | |
| Year: | 2009 | |
| Genre: | Vampire | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.26.09 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (4)
- Admission
- American Dreamz
- In Good Company
- Little Fockers
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.26.09 | Paramount | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2009 Quick jaunt over to the paramount to sit in another inexplicably bad seat for another movie supposedly intended for kids. i didn't really know anything about this going in. Had no clue it was based on yet another series of young adult vampire books or any of that. Pretty much all I knew was that John C. Reilly was gonna be there and that was good enough for me. So, I guess in an effort to pack the seats, they solicited high schoolers and junior high schoolers to come for free. That made for the whole front half of the orchestra seats populated with excited teens who think they're cooler than me. I even saw a kid with a mullet. I don't think he was old enough to be ironic but not young enough for his parents to be ironic so maybe mullets are coming back now? Crazy. Then the T-shirt guy came around and all the kids went CRAZY for youth XS-sized shirts. After the box was emptied and the suddenly-cool dude with the free t-shirts went back to being the gross old dude that all kids hate, impromptu marketplace shouting sprouted up here and there. I guess that's what we did before ebay and craigslist, huh? The movie. It was actually pretty good! I enjoyed myself about on par with Zathura (which I liked when it played the first Fantastic Fest but haven't felt a need to see it since then). John C. Reilly was great in it with a straight-forward sarcastic tone to his vampire that was pretty refreshing for me. The supporting freak show cast were also stocked with actors who are better than they need to be and the story itself was pretty smart and engaging. I really don't have anything bad to say about this. I was pleasantly surprised for sure. Hey smartybottom! sweet bloody wine, to your health! You're now one of us |
