DRACULA UNTOLD Video Review & Poll From Mr. Sunday Movies

woah woah woah wait... this is the first movie in that shared universal monsterverse? i thought this was a stand alone movie.

Okay... So eventually, this will lead up to a Drak Pack-movie???

They should just make a Castlevania game.

I actually liked the idea of a monster cinematic universe. Anyway looks like from the reviews Dracula Untold would be better kept untold.

Yeah just make Castlevania

I want to watch it but I wont pay to watch it...

It had a few cool moments but overall was pretty dull. I really liked the ending though and I'm intrigued to see where they go with it!

oh and so did batman and green hornet

Mrvel doesn't have a shared universe dumb asses they already existed in the same universe lolol

Universal's monsters existing in a "shared universe" is nothing new. Remember FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and HOUSE OF DRACULA?

Oh and this movie looks like shit....reboot the reboot. I'll stick to classic monster movies

noone said marvel was the first, they just implied that they are doing it correctly, which usually means profitablly

Crossovers =/= Shared universe

The monster isn't called Frankenstein. That was the doctor's name who created him.

It was ight

@Sephit

I want to see a Castlevania movie too! ^_^

I'm gonna see it tuesday. I'm excited

Al the babies saying "it's been done before Marvel". Idiots. A crossover is one thing. A shared universe is another. So no, no one did it before Marvel.

I would like to commend Mr. Sunday on his balanced and very useful review, although after hearing said review, I am not eager to see this movie prior to its release on video.

Having said that I am wondering how many of the other nine creatures from the universal monster world can reasonably fit with this Dracula. The other nine being The Hunchback, the opera phantom, Frankenstein's monster, the Bride, the Invisible Man, The Werewolf, Black Lagoonie, Abbott, and Costello. The last two were definitely in a shared universe with Dracula, Frankenstein's critter and Wolfie in an old movie of the type it would be hard to accept now. It is hard to see how the universe does get rebuilt. It worked way back when all of these creatures were more original, and I cannot where it is going now that many of them seem like jokes (which they must have seemed like by the time Abbot and Costello entered the picture (1940s).


Next question: why doesn't Universal build on its popular Despicable Me franchise. I mean you could throw some heroes into that universe and create some tie in comic books. The second movie in that franchise is the most profitable movie that Universal ever made. Possible answers are: A because they what they are doing and such a shared universe has no real future. B They do not know what they are doing or C they are planning to use the despicable franchise as back up if this monster idea fails. One obvious disadvantage of the monster mash up universe is that most of the critters are in the public domain. Anyone could make a movie with Frankenstein's daemon, a werewolf and a mummy come to life without Universal's permission. By contrast WB owns the DCU, Sony has exclusive rights to build a Spider Verse and Fox owns exclusive rights to build a Mutant universe. Universal is the only one trying to imitate the MCU using characters that it cannot buy exclusive rights to.


Further question: do the velociraptor and the giant tarantula fit into this new shared universe. They are never listed with the eight universal monsters, but they are scary critters that are more interesting than the Creature from the Black Lagoon. We get answer if the next Jurassic Park park movie has some hint that velociraptor is in the monster mash up universe.