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Blood and Chocolate (2007)

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Reviews Counted:16

Fresh:1

Rotten:15

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: Cheap CG effects and laughable dialogue make Blood and Chocolate worse than the usual werewolf flick.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence/terror, some sexuality and substance abuse

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $3,428,910

Synopsis: A good-looking pack of werewolves that has ruled Bucharest for 5,000 years becomes threatened when one among them begins to question the traditions they have adhered to over the centuries. Vivian... A good-looking pack of werewolves that has ruled Bucharest for 5,000 years becomes threatened when one among them begins to question the traditions they have adhered to over the centuries. Vivian (Agnes Bruckner, DREAMLAND) is a teenage werewolf whose destiny has been tied to her pack since she was orphaned at a young age. The pack's menacing leader, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS), has designs on Vivian, and hopes to make her his next wife, while the rest of Vivian's "family" keeps a close watch on her every move. This makes things difficult when Vivian, against her better judgment, begins a tentative relationship with Aiden (Hugh Dancy, THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB), a graphic artist who has come to the city to study the mythical loup-garou for his next book. Vivian tries to keep her growing love a secret, but when Gabriel discovers that she has feelings for a human, he sets off a chain of events that threaten to destroy the pack--or change its bloodthirsty ways. Vivian and the extraordinary Aiden--who manages to outwit the loup-garou in ways they never thought possible--are forced to go on the run, but they must eventually face Vivian's pack in a confrontation that forces all to examine what keeps man and beast constantly at war. The film's setting in moody, beautifully dilapidated Bucharest adds an air of mystery that the special effects struggle to match. Hugh Dancy is a charmer, and the tale is a mixture of Gothic myth and teenage romance that will appeal to fans of UNDERWORLD and THE CROW. [More]

Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Kata Dobo

Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Kata Dobo, Bryan Dick, Katja Riemann, Chris Geere, Tom Harper, John Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitalie Ursu, Bogdan Voda

Director: Katja Von Garnier

Director: Katja Von Garnier
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Christopher Landon
Producer: Daniel Bobker, Wolfgang Esenwein
Studio: MGM

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  • A werewolf tale from the producers of Underworld, Blood & Chocolate tells the tale of Vivian (Agnes Bruckner), a young teenage girl who must choose between her love for a young artist and loyalty to her werewolf lineage. Others may have secrets, but none as extraordinary as Vivian. One of the last of her kind, she comes from a line of loup garoux, shape shifters able to transform into the form of both human and wolf at will. When Vivian's affections for a visiting artist threaten to reveal her family's secret society, she must decide whether to follow her heart or betray the secret vows of her family.
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    The city ends up being more interesting than the story or characters. Too bad we can barely see it.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    12/03/07
    Michael Hardy
    Michael Hardy
    Boston Globe
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    The elegant decay of Bucharest offers welcome visual relief from this otherwise tedious goth romance.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    12/03/07
    J. R. Jones
    J. R. Jones
    Chicago Reader
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    Moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    01/31/07
    Scott Brown
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    A silly werewolf movie without any fangs.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Frank Scheck
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    There isn't enough absinthe in all of Romania to obliterate the taste of this clunker.

    Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Lael Loewenstein
    Lael Loewenstein
    Los Angeles Times
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    Somewhere, Lon Chaney Jr. must be howling mad.

    Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Robert Dominguez
    Robert Dominguez
    New York Daily News
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    This is the kind of werewolf flick that seems to have used up its entire special-effects budget on canine contact lenses.

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Kyle Smith
    Kyle Smith
    New York Post
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    There's no real meat here -- as the studio, which would not screen this in time for critics, certainly suspected.

    Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Stephen Whitty
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    Newark Star-Ledger
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    The preview audience watched most of this in stony silence, broken only by the contented sound of critics scratching bad dialogue in their notepads.

    Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
    01/30/07
    Jan Stuart
    Jan Stuart
    Newsday
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    In seeking to make a chick flick with fangs, the producers of the vampire franchise Underworld are doing a grave disservice to the genre.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Peter Howell
    Peter Howell
    Toronto Star
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    Based on a popular teen novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate revises classic werewolf legend and effectively neuters it in the process.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Peter Debruge
    Peter Debruge
    Variety
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    A slapdash supernatural adventure-romance.

    Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Colin Covert
    Colin Covert
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
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    Blood and Chocolate has no audience. Horror fans will be disgusted by the lack of gore. Romance fans will be disgusted by the presence of gore.

    Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
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    Uninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is Romeo and Juliet with fewer manners and more exotic dentition.

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    01/27/07
    Jeannette Catsoulis
    Jeannette Catsoulis
    New York Times
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    I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment 2 Comments
    01/27/07
    Stephanie Zacharek
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    Salon.com
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    If you have a decent laptop, a copy of the Final Cut Pro software, some gray spray paint and access to a German shepherd, then you can probably make a better-looking werewolf than the ones in Blood & Chocolate.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Peter Hartlaub
    Peter Hartlaub
    San Francisco Chronicle
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