MOVIE REVIEW - Vampire Academy

Before reviewing one minute of this movie, it should be known that I am clearly not the core or target audience for this.  But, that just puts me in the majority. This is very tightly skewed.

Vampire Academy is sort of a parody, sort of not.  Sort of a poor-man's Twilight, and a bit of Harry Potter, and kind of silly all the way around.   To be more than honest, the actual story is far too difficult to describe here. In fact, it's so difficult, they couldn't even describe it to us on screen in any real effective way.  And among the other problems this movie has, that is the kingpin of them all.

This takes place on the campus of Vampire Academy in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It's a private high school for various factions of vampires to get their education, and learn the traditions of each separate factions.   Sound silly?  It is.  And in doing so, these vampire kids have some of the same problems that regular high school things do, and of course many that they do not. 

There is a bunch of silly fighting and ridiculous actions scenes that do nothing to make this any better. There is some funny and ironic, understated humor at times, and will admit there are a few chuckles here. But I always remembered during this one hour and forty five minute to me mess, this is not for me.

This is clearly and narrowly targeted at young high school girls - period.   And they actually do super serve them remarkably well.  Much of this is highly reflective of their own lives, and what is not, it the exact thing that tons of them are reading about, or watching on TV or in other movies.  Plus, you might think that movies made with buxom, and beautiful young women, and hunky guys that it might jump off the raunchy wagon and be filled with tons of objectionable material.  But it's not, keeping a very tame PG-13.

This is going to be one of those movies that critics are going to totally hate, and the audience that chooses to go see it, are going to love.  There won't be many other than the exact target that are going to see this one.  And to me, that's OK.  We all need movies to go see. When a movie that is basically harmless fills a void in the movie going world, I always give praise.

Vampire Academy.  Not for me, but very effective for some.