Cirque du Freak was trying to make a run at being the next Harry Potter or Twilight. In fact its kind of a cross between the two, except not a phenomenon and not really all that good. It is based on a series of novels by Darren Shan, which coincidentally is the main character's name as well. You could tell by the ending of this one that it was made with the hopes of having sequels, but if the sequels are anything like the first, it ain't going to fly.
Cirque du Freak is a supernatural story about a traveling "freak show" equipped with a tall man, a monkey girl, a snake boy, a man with 2 stomachs and a woman who can regenerate her limbs, and a vampire just to name a few. The show led John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, yeah Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt guy) comes to the normal suburban town where our hero Darren lives. Long story short, through a series of unfortunate events, Darren must become a vampire and must learn to fight in order to fight the bad vampire's who are coming into town. Good guys sort of win, but the bad guys won't give up, watch the next one to find out what happens next.
This movie could have been pretty cool. The freaks in the movie are all very intriguing and of course the whole vampire thing is huge now, but for some reason, it just felt flat. The movie has a very impressive cast which was one reason I'm not saying this movie was just straight up bad.
This movie stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek as the Bearded Lady, Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), Orlando Jones, and Willem Dafoe. Pretty good cast which makes me wonder what the script looked like to get these folks on bored.
This is a good mindless fantasy movie, but it isn't incredibly entertaining. It was kind of a boring movie surrounded by cool things to look at. If this one is one TV, you'd probably be okay watching it, but I wouldn't really rent this one if I were you.
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