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Information
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 92 min.
- Director
- Amy Heckerling
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Horror
- Rating *
- 5.2
- Votes *
- 8,617
- Checks
- 465
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 20
- Favs/checks
- 1.7% (1:58)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:3
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Siskoid
2012's Vamps, directed by Clueless' Amy Heckerling, and starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as virtuous vampire maidens in love is a bit silly, a bit cheesy, and has a couple of tonal hiccups, but it coasts pretty smoothly on the charm of its two stars and its immensely recognizable supporting cast. Truly, the first act could have been a pilot for a kooky high-concept sitcom, working on the same level as something like 30 Rock, where the characters are caricatures, and sometimes terrible, but you still want to watch them in their world, spotting sight gags along the way. Bright colors, smash cut flashbacks, modern sitcom idioms, plainly. And I quite like what they do with the vampire lore in this, modernizing it, exploring how current-day technology and sociology would have impacted the lives of these immortals. Winks at Dracula appreciated. But of course, it's not a pilot, it tells a complete story, and possibly the vampire gags would have gotten stale in a more serialized format (high concept comedies aren't very easy to pull off, The Good Place is a rarity). Fun and cute. 3 years 5 months ago -
