Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 30
The Little Vampire can't seem to find the right pitch, with its muddled, jumpy script and badly executed mix of cuteness and fright.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 11
The Little Vampire can't seem to find the right pitch, with its muddled, jumpy script and badly executed mix of cuteness and fright.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 51,125
Nine-year-old Tony (Jerry Maguire's Jonathan Lipnicki) has just moved with his parents (Tommy Hinkley and Pamela Gidley) to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, where his father is overseeing the building of a golf course for old squire Lord McAshton (John Wood). Tony is picked on by his new classmates and starts dreaming about vampires at night, until one fine evening his dreams seem to summon Rudolph (Rollo Weeks), an aristocratic, wee vampire. Rudolph is among the vegetarian variety of
PG, 1 hr. 37 min.
Oct 27, 2000 Wide
Mar 6, 2001
$13.4M
New Line Cinema
All Critics (66) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (30) | DVD (8)
Vampire cows provide comic relief and many of the scares in this respectfully dark yet optimistic story about a lonely child who befriends a vampire.
Mildly entertaining but dramatically messy.
A fun and warm children's fantasy.
It's stylish ... modestly surprising and cute. And when's the last time you could say that about a vampire movie?
Not often does a family film come along that is literate, clever, mischievous and just plain fun.
Bram Stoker, F.W. Muranu, and Bela Lugosi would turn over in their graves if they found out.
Dark movie may frighten some kids.
The Little Vampire is hardly a children's classic, and it will doubtlessly be more at home after it hits the video shelves.
Much of the film's success is down to the costume design, the novel SFX and the mildly foreboding atmosphere of the mist enshrouded Scottish countryside.
It's an occupational hazard that you actually have to try to think about movies like this, which just get weirder and weirder the more you consider them.
Lipnicki has learned how to make cute faces, but his delivery is formulaic and without emotion.
Evocative of Tim Burton's work, the Scottish locations appear as a kind of ghoulish theme park full of ancient stately homes and mouldering, curse-ridden crypts.
Excellent stuff -- it won't just be kids that love this film!
A sprightly romp, funny, full of life lessons, and scary.
A surprisingly enjoyable kid's movie.
The characters are engaging and so is the story.
Watchable family films are so rare these days that we shouldn't put a stake through one with so much heart.
Yes, the movie will hold the tots' attention. But should that be ample reason to subject your children to such a shoddy product? I don't think so.
t's hard to know quite how enthusiastic to be about a family film that's occasionally pitched at the wrong crowd, but at least isn't stupid or actively offensive most of the time.
There are some decent lessons about power and when to use it and when to give it up, about accepting rather than attacking those who are different and about dealing with fear.
It was one of my favourite movies when I was about 7 years old! Now it's still pretty good, but definately worth watching!
January 27, 2010Super Reviewer
The costumes are gorgeous, and in a way it is pleasingly different to see a film where humans are more likely to be harmed by the vampire hunter than the vampires themselves. However, even for a children's film the dialogue is pretty awful, and the acting is just about bearable (the child actors tend to stretch this
April 23, 2007Super Reviewer
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