Vamps Reviews

A playful flick about two female vampires, city life and the huge role of screens in our lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A satire with much of the wit of her [Heckerling's] 1995 Clueless.

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Cheesy but chipper vampire comedy has modest charms.

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In an era transfixed by zombies and assorted other ghouls, Vamps is a refreshing change of pace.

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While it did feel more like an extended sitcom to me than an actual film, I must say I found it fun.

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"Vamps" teeters on the brink of not quite working and yet still routinely lands its laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

[This] shambling little comedy never finds a consistent groove, but it's eager to please, and has the ancient gags to do it.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A sense of anachronism is what provides the film with its melancholy heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

At times, Heckerling's script feels as though it's been sitting in a coffin, as the film takes on a campy tone with its endless array of anachronistic sight gags and one-liners.

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Vampire comedy has cute moments but lacks bite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

In Amy Herckerling's film, being a vampire is ordinary rather than remarkable - which pretty much describes VAMPS.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Vamps" is mostly a misfire, but Heckerling still shows enough flashes of wit and wisdom that she remains hard to entirely dismiss.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Vamps sends up our pop cultural fascination with bloodsucking but is itself a bit stiff with rigor mortis.

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Aging is probably the real theme here, but it's approached sidelong and has no punch. Still, only the nostalgia has any real conviction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Bold, ambitious, but it's rarely funny. Heckerling works to squeeze out a few laughs along the way, but the punchlines are soggy and the situations a little too cartoonish at times, resembling a sketch comedy show about vampires.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The film's comedic potential is defanged by a pervading tone of embittered nostalgia. Goody doesn't mock our smartphone-loving society with barbed affection-she just wants it to go away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5