Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)

Good movie but grossly overrated

best movie i've ever seen.

As Good As It Gets

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Where is Groucho? Where is the inspector Bloch? You know Dylan dog is vegetarian and hates the weapons? Is Dylan Dog not a freaking Power Ranger.

I am a huge fan of Sergio Bonelli comics and this film was a pleasant surprise. Whereas the setting and the plot of the film is ... well... Americanised, it does still manage to capture some of the feel of the original comic books. Which is a good thing. If Europeans weren't so bent on everything being 100% accurate, maybe we would have more of these films and more people would familiarise themselves with Italian and French comics.Cons: It has no plot to speak of, it fails to transfer 80% of Dylan Dog's character, it's in the wrong city, in the wrong country, on the wrong continent and lacks some major characters.Pros: It's on the right planet! The main character is there :P And it's fun! You will actually laugh out loud. Partially because some bits are funny and partially because the plot is so silly, but you will laugh. Which is always a plus in a horror film. It does manage to capture 20% of Dylan Dog's character which is more than any other film made on European comic book heroes. Big plus for that! It doesn't take itself too seriously and is a great way to pass the time while waiting for Supernatural season 11. It has the right atmosphere. I was very impressed with that. It feels like a film based on a comic book and that's very important to me. The acting is actually decent and on occasion even good! Brandon Routh looks hot in his one Dylan Dog suit he has. What more do you want? In short, I think anyone who likes comic books in general and is a fan of films and series like Interview with the Vampire, Supernatural and such should like this film. If you are a fan of original comics, try and watch this with an open mind (repeat after me: limited budget, must be commercial a bit). If you've never read the original comics, you'll just enjoy it and maybe you'll even grab a comic book after you've seen the film. So it's all good.

There are few films these days that surprise the viewer, and Dylan Dog Dead of Night pulls no separate punches that would elude you into thinking any the less. With a mixed bag of various 'Similarities' to Buffy, Angel, Blade, Moonlight, Fright Night, Lost Boys and Underworld, Dylan Dog packs them all – and more besides – as from simple Go Between of the Pure Bloods and The Werewolves, his journey unfolds into an array of great entertainment.Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh of Superman Returns) and his trusted side kick Marcus (Sam Huntingon) take on a case that leads to a fatality – or two fatalities including that of the original victim – which also sets off a sequence of events set around the young and beautiful client Elizabeth (Anita Briem) who Dylan tries to protect from what he believes to be some Blood Feud war between old Monster rivals The Pure Bloods (Vampires) and The Lycans (The Werewolves), while right in the middle are the Zombies and Dylan Dog. The build up to the story is fast paced, it is also truly informative of the story lines, the characters basis, the not so linear flashbacks show previous history with the main set characters and last but not least, the killings and blood spattering's are not over the top gore-horror-violence scenes.The parts played by Vargas (Taye Diggs of House on Haunted Hill) and Gabriel (Peter Stormare of Constantine) made worthy adversary choices by the casting director, while Wolfgang (Kurt Angle) slots in nicely to appraise the finishing touches that really get the film lifted off the ground for a Non-Stop ride of the Highs and the Lows from which the whole cast play their parts perfectly.The deception between the characters throw red herrings out on occasion, but not enough to stop you watching as Dylan gets to grips and unravels the mysteries surrounding a particularly strange artifact of extremely unnatural power. With the assistance of little needed special effects than in most other films, the last forty minutes of Dead of Night gives a display of absolute mayhem which has any Horror fan updating their Twitter status to share the awesome battle scene ending.Giving this film a 7* Rating seems a little unfair, to say the least, as it really has shown more promise than some other viewers have let on over the past couple of weeks. The whole picture was not as low budget as we were led to believe, or the acting that of an amateur gathering of semi-skilled players looking for stardom. In our belief, Dylan Dog Dead of Night was very much as enjoyable to watch as Lost Boys and Blade combined.DVD Archive Rating: 8.3/10 (9/10 if Sean William-Scott was starring alongside Sam Huntington)

I have never read any Dylan the dog or anything like that , but i think this film was quite terrible . Dylan was played by some sort of a B-movie actor who looks like he might just be gay .And the ending That was appalling , why didn't he give a sh*t about that girl any other man would have gone back and try to revive her in some f***ing way ! I completely hated the film , i tried to give it a chance but i can only hope the comic book was better and that this is the fault of the director.Oliver