Maybe you've overdosed on the undead - vampires, zombies, cyborgs, Young Republicans, and you've sworn off any more such movies. Make an exception for this.VAMPS is a charming comedy about two sweet girls in NYC who just happen to be nosferatu. Goody (Alicia Silverstone) was made a vampire in 1842, and Stacy (Krysten Ritter) in 1992, but because vampires don't age they both look to be in their mid-twenties (and Goody has fibbed about her true age to Stacy). It turns out that both of them were turned into vampires by, and are thus under the thrall of, Cisserus (Sigourney Weaver), a mean and self-centered psychotic vampire. But Goody and Stacy are not like her; for one thing, they have never attacked a human but have survived entirely on vermin - in fact, they support themselves with night jobs as rat exterminators, which provides them with sufficient sustenance, and then the twittering of birds warns them of the coming dawn in time for them to rush back to their apartments and their coffins.Goody and Stacy belong to a support group of vampires who have sworn off human blood. Even Vlad Tepish (Malcolm McDowell) is a member. Vampires cannot be seen in mirrors, or in photographs or television; a great frustration to Goody, who ceased to live before photography and who hasn't seen her reflection in 170 years. Goody is also baffled by the modern preoccupation with wireless communications. They have some non- vampire friends, and both girls have accumulated hundreds of credits at night-school - their only difficulty is that the graduation ceremonies are always in daytime.Stacy meets a nice boy in class - Joey ... van Helsing (Dan Stevens). His dad is Dr. van Helsing (Wallace Shawn), the famous vampire hunter, who thinks Stacy is a tad too pale. Stacy is able to charm (literally) Joey's mom (Kristen Johnston) but the Doctor is a tougher challenge. However, real romance blossoms with Joey. In the meantime, Goody encounters an old boyfriend (Richard Lewis) - and, yes, old. He's aged, she hasn't. He's keeping vigil over his dying wife, but there's still a spark between Goody and old flame Danny. In the meantime, there's a crisis in the local vampire ranks: Suddenly the government wants lots of the local vampires to show up for IRS audits, immigration updates, jury duty, etc., in the middle of the day. And at the same time a different and very personal crisis for Stacy and Goody.This is, in fact, a lovely and sweet movie. A little too gruesome and perhaps too adult for children, but not the sort of thing to cause nightmares. Goody may be undead but she made my heart beat faster and I honestly wouldn't mind if she gave me a hickey.

It's hard to really consider a vampire film or any kind of film for that matter.Vamps centers around two female vampires Goody played by Alicia Silverstone and Stacy played by Krysten Ritter as they go through lives as vampires living in New York. But they are under serves to Cisserus played by Sigourney Weaver the woman who made them vampires and honestly how much did they play Sigourney to play this character? I mean come on. Cisserus is support to be our film main villain but she just the stereotype where she is passion about the newest clothes and what have you and she is pretty much serious really?Stacy while going to college meets a young man named Joey played by Dan Stevens who unknown to her is the son of Dr.Van Helsing played by Wallace Shawn.Dr.Van Helsing later begins a quest to rid the city of vampires which leads to problems with Joey and Stacy.I mean how can this be called a vampire film? Seriously? First off the only "vampire" that does what we know Vampires to do is Cisserus. Goody and Stacy do have vampires but they only drink rat blood.But seriously it's hard for me to take this film seriously.I mean the characters hardly are interesting or even worth the screen time they have.The plot of the film is pretty much the same thing we seen in any love comedy but they thought putting vampires which are pretty much ugh by the way they are hardly vampires in this film. They pretty much people with problems as vampires but come on.It's just that kind of film where you like or hate me It is just impossible to mind anything worth your while in this film.Only watch it if you're curious but it just not for me or any real vampire film it just a insult.I give VAMPS an 3 out of 10

Turned into a vampire sometime in the 19th Century, "Goody" (Alicia Silverstone) has seen the world change all around her. Since she doesn't age she finds it difficult to maintain relationships with those who do. As a result she becomes very lonely. However, sometime in the 1980's the vampire who sired her, "Cisserus" (Sigourney Weaver) also sires another vampire named "Stacy" (Krysten Ritter). Soon Goody and Stacy become the best of friends due in large part to their mutual interests. But that's not all—both Goody and Stacy only consume blood from rodents and attend regular meetings similar to "Alcoholics Anonymous" in order to abstain from drinking the blood of humans. As it so happens, one of the regulars at these meetings is another vampire by the name of "Vlad Tepish" (Malcolm McDowell) who was once the infamous "Vlad the Impaler" but has now taken up knitting. At any rate, rather than detail the entire story and possibly ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this is one of those films that is essentially "hit or miss". It had some good parts but all too often the humor fell flat and the movie failed to maintain any consistency. Alicia Silverstone and Malcolm McDowell did okay but quite frankly this wasn't a good role for either of them. The direction was clumsy, the dialogue was weak and the humor lacked originality. In short, this wasn't a good movie and I rate it as below average.

What can I say? I thought I'd give this a try because of all the glowing reviews on IMDb - maybe have an enjoyable 'chick flick' night in with some popcorn and a few laughs. Besides, a movie with Sigourney Weaver and Malcolm McDowell couldn't be all bad? Boy, was I in for a big disappointment! Whilst the premise had potential (2 girly vamps, surviving in modern NY and abstaining from human blood, while trying to live 'normal' lives), the execution was dire - the acting was amateurish and I'm afraid that Alicia Silverstone is past the age of this kind of role - she acted more mature in "Clueless"! Sigourney must have cringed when she saw the finished result, she was given terrible material to work with and wasn't able to improve on it. Malcolm McDowell's cameo as Vlad Dracul was actually quite funny, but there wasn't enough of him to save the film. Dan Stevens as 'son of Van Helsing' just looked bewildered and sorry to be there, which I'm sure he was - this was not a good choice for a break-through role in Hollywood. Sincerely, don't waste your time - if you want a comedy vamp film, dig out "Love at First Bite" - if you want Sigourney being nasty, watch "Working Girl" - well, just watch ANYTHING other than this woeful mess!