Mean Girls director Mark Waters adapts the first in Richelle Mead’s series of young adult fantasy books, starring Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) as human-vampire hybrid Rose. As a Dhampir, Rose is sworn to protect the peaceful Moroi mortal from the vicious Strigoi immortals. Co-stars Oblivion’s Olga Kurylenko and Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland.
In the wake of damp squib would-be YA franchise-starters like Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments, audience fatigue for Twilight-wannabes is at an all-time high. Not helping Vampire Academy's case is the incredibly generic title (which sounds like a CW web series), and the whole thing exuding a whiff of having jumped on a bandwagon a few years too late.
Full reviewNot only plays like the crassest possible mashup of Harry Potter and Twilight, but seems designed to make those franchises look like eternal monuments of world culture by comparison.
Full reviewWhat is surprising is that while the patchwork whole creaks terribly in places, the parts also show signs of life.
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Fans of the books might enjoy seeing their world brought to life, but most everyone else will likely leave feeling as if they’ve just completed a seminar on vampire lore, and they’re likely to fail any pop quiz that follows.
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