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It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde. Van Helsing: The London Assignment featuring Hugh Jackman and Robbie Coltrane is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can add it to your want to see list for updates. It's an action & adventure and animation movie with an average IMDb audience rating of 6.0 (3,475 votes).

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment is a 2004 animated film by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It features the voices of Hugh Jackman, Robbie Coltrane and David Wenham. The London Assignment is an animated prequel to the 2004 motion picture Van Helsing (released the same year). It tells of the events before the film.

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment is an Animated “Diamond in the Rough”

While researching for my Van Helsing Mixes Monsters for Movie Magic post I found out that there was a cartoon short released in conjunction with the major motion picture. Van Helsing: The London Assignment tells the story of what Van Helsing is doing in the days leading up to the start of the film.

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Van Helsing is on the trail of a vicious London-based murderer who not only kills his lovely female victims, but leaves their bodies twisted and mummified. But even after this string of heinous crimes, the order to which Van Helsing belongs demands that he try to capture the fiend and save his soul from damnation.

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He soon meets the monster, none other than the giant Mr. Hyde who helps Hugh Jackman open the live-action movie. In an interesting twist, Dr. Jekyll is every bit as evil (or even eviler) than his alter ego, but he is doing all in the name of love.

I called this 30 minute short a “diamond in the rough” because a lot of the animation is jerky and reminiscent of Hanna Barbara cartoons (no offense Scooby Doo!) with intermittent flashes of brilliance. The action sequences clearly got more love (or maybe just a bigger budget) than other scenes, which is to be expected, but it was kind of distractingly lopsided. That being said, it is a fun story that made me alternatingly chuckle and say “whoa!” It really felt like a noir comic book come to life, which was cool to see.

There is a nice documentary in the special features about the making of the live-action movie which is really cool. I learned that both Kate Beckingsale and Hugh Jackman did most if not all of their own amazing stunts.

You can watch the full cartoon through youtube below!

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• 1 Dave Metzger The Appearance of Mr. Hyde 2:24
• 2 Dave Metzger Testing Van Helsing 1:26
• 3 Dave Metzger Assignment London 1:10
• 4 Dave Metzger Mr. Hyde Says Hello 2:35
• 5 Dave Metzger Love Potion Mr. Hyde 2:57
• 6 Dave Metzger Carl the Demon Bait 0:52
• 7 Dave Metzger Underground Chase 4:20
• 8 Dave Metzger Disappearance 1:28
• 9 Dave Metzger Attack of the Beefeaters 2:06
• 10 Dave Metzger You Please Me 0:29
• 11 Dave Metzger Dumbwaiter Shaft 1:20
• 12 Dave Metzger Lies, All Lies 1:20
• 13 Dave Metzger What You Fear Most 2:18
• 14 Dave Metzger Tower Bridge Fight 3:00
• 15 Dave Metzger This Isn't Over 2:16
• 16 Dave Metzger Van Helsing: The London Assignment (Main Title) 1:15
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Monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing and friar Carl travel to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde. When tracing Hyde to his underground fortress, Van Helsing and Carl find a young woman who claims to be Queen Victoria , and they discover that Dr. Jekyll is in love with the Queen. In order to keep her young and thus immortal, she has been given a potion by Dr. Jekyll that turns her into a young woman for one night. But, in order to create the potion which causes the transformations, Dr. Jekyll needs the drained souls of his freshly killed victims and thus the killings will never stop.

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) [short film, animation, action]

Demon hunter Gabriel Van Helsing is sent to London to investigate a series of mysterious murders. And soon he discovers a sinister plot that threatens the very heart of the nation…

This animated short film [30 minutes] does not really belong on my blog, because it is not a vampire film. Although with a lot of good will you could argue that you briefly catch sight of a vampire in one scene. The reason I reviewed this film was that it has been made as a direct prequel to the 2004 live action film Van Helsing .

That film featured a lot of vampires, of course. But, as you may remember, that Van Helsing character created by writer/director Stephen Sommers (who, along with his editor Bob Ducsay, is listed among the executive producers of this animated film) does not just hunt vampires but all sorts of demons – depending on the case his bosses assign him to. A decision no doubt taken with a view to possible sequels and spin-offs (which never materialised).

In the cold opening scene of the live action film, we saw Van Helsing battle Mr Hyde in Paris. This animated prequel is the story of the investigation that preceded this encounter in Paris; and the Paris scenes in the live action film thus serve as an epilogue to the animated short. So far, so complicated. What is interesting is that both the live action feature film and the animated short were released at the same time. So the productions must have been happening in a roughly parallel manner (which might explain how they managed to get many members the feature film cast to also voice their characters for the animation). Which means that the idea for the prequel was not an afterthought but existed more or less from the beginning; and I would really love to know what the thinking behind this was. Was this intended as a promotional vehicle for both the feature film and the computer game, thus justifying the production costs? Or was this short film made with the confident belief that it would make its money back on its own accord?

Be that as it may – and all my unnecessarily long “prequel-talk” aside – this short film also works perfectly well as a stand-alone. No-one encountering this film would feel lost just because they have not seen the live action film. The plot is self-contained, and it is rather well written and well told. I also like the animation style of the film, and well as its pacing. The only writing problem is the motivation of the Jekyll/Hyde character – a motivation on which the whole premise rests. It feels a bit silly, but since this is an animated film you are more likely to accept it than you would be in a “real” film.

There is little else to say about this short. I could see myself happily rating it at 7 out of 10. But as far as recommendations go, the fact that it is only 30 minutes long means that you have to consider what money you want to spend on it. Van Helsing: The London Assignment has been given its own, independent DVD release; and unless you can get a used copy for a buck (as I did), I am not sure the DVD is worth purchasing. This is, at the end of the day, a curio – some add-on material that by rights should be included in the bonus features of a DVD/BluRay release of the feature film (maybe it even is, today, in some cases, who knows?). As a stand-alone DVD it appears slightly preposterous, even though my Region1 DVD of Van Helsing: The London Assignment has been padded out with some bonus material; including one major featurette that has nothing to do with the animated film but is basically a “making-of” for the live-action film.

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On the winding and fog-enshrouded streets of London, the sinister being known only as Mr. Hyde terrorizes the city in a haunting spree of mayhem and murder. With the populace in a panic, the legendary monster hunter Van Helsing arrives in London on a mission to track down and capture the elusive Mr. Hyde. Starring Hugh Jackman as the voice of Van Helsing, this original animated film will thrill you with cutting edge visuals and non-stop adventure. Experience a Van Helsing adventure that takes place before the events of the blockbuster film!

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Van Helsing: The London Assignment is a wild and clever animated prequel, slightly more than a half-hour, to the live-action hit film about 19th-century monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing. Set just before actor Hugh Jackman's dark hero heads off for battle with Count Dracula in Eastern Europe, The London Assignment finds Van Helsing attempting to stop Dr. Jekyll, and the latter's terrifying associate, Mr. Hyde, from their bizarre and bloody quest to turn septuagenarian Queen Victoria into a lovelorn girl again. While the widescreen artistry is often brutal, it is also breathtaking, especially in a fantastic chase sequence involving train cars. Besides Jackman, several actors from the feature lend voices to their cartoon counterparts, including Robbie Coltrane (as Hyde), Alun Armstrong (as Cardinal Jinette), and David Wenhman (as sidekick Carl). Special features include an incisive interview with Jackman about his character. --Tom Keogh

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• Release date ‏ : ‎ January 4, 2011
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Hugh Jackman, Robbie Coltrane, Alun Armstrong, David Wenham
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Directed by Sharon Bridgeman

It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde.

Hugh Jackman Robbie Coltrane David Wenham Grey DeLisle Dwight Schultz John DiMaggio Scott Mosenson Alun Armstrong Roger L. Jackson Julia Fletcher Tress MacNeille Tara Strong James Arnold Taylor

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Sharon Bridgeman

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Garfield Reeves-Stevens Judith Reeves-Stevens

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Ken Solomon

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John Van Tongeren

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Review by Luiz Rafael ★★

Um short film de animação que segue, basicamente, a história comentada por Van Helsing durante o encontro com Mr. Hyde na Catedral de Notre Dame no início do filme. Era um história necessária? Não, mas é um complemento a mais na história do filme, não é algo que me agrida.

ENG. An animated short film that basically follows the story commented by Van Helsing during the meeting with Mr. Hyde at Notre Dame Cathedral at the beginning of the film. Was a story necessary? No, but it's one more complement to the film's story, it's not something I dislike.

Review by Michelle (Guyver Spawn) ★★½ 1

You are better off watching both Vampire Hunter D movies instead

Review by V H A N 👀 ★★★

Spend 2 hours last night looking for this 30 minute shortfilm and finally www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2001367373

Its basically Catholic Batman in the victorian era. Also still cant get over the fact that we lost multiple spin offs and series bcz of bad reviews on the movie. This short shows how passionate they were. wouldv loved to see more of Huge Jacked Man take on gothic literary monsters.

Review by jimmyoc ★★½

Alan Partridge: Right, OK. Van Helsing, Dracula Untold, The Mummy. What does that say to you about reboots based on Universal Horror that attempt to start a cinematic universe?

Tony Hayers: There's too many of them?

Alan Partridge: That's one way of looking at it, another way of looking at it is, people like them, let's make some more of them. A horror film based in Norwich called "Swallow". Swallow is a vampire who tackles vandalism. Bit of a maverick, not afraid to bite a few necks if he thinks it's necessary. He's not king of the vampires, you know, but he will, perhaps, turn into a bat, if, for example, he wants to get somewhere quickly... [Tony shakes his…

Review by Mazinkaiser ★★★

Watching a werewolf's head explode really made my day

Review by Joe ★★★½

Pretty neat little American OVA featuring Hugh Jackman's Vatican-backed monster hunter in an adventure involving royal physician Dr. Henry Jekyll draining the souls of London's forgotten women in order to keep Queen Victoria mesmerized and supernaturally young. Cool possibly From Hell-inspired conspiracyish plot and some cool visual style, Van Helsing looks kind of like The Shadow. Almost certainly better than the movie it was created to promote.

Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★★★

Universal. DVD 1.78 :1 Color  Digital  12 A nice little prologue of the Van Helsing character with a decent amount of depth. Jackman's accent feels a little off but his voice work is great and dynamic with Wenham sounds and works well. The animation itself looks great and surprisingly violent throughout. It's twist on events in London was interesting but barely touched the surface.

Review by Dani 💫 ★★★

major batman the animated series vibes!! i loved it, i would honestly watch 10 of these!!

Review by VirtuozCRO ★★★

Hooptober 9

I would have preferred this short cartoon to have developed into a Van Helsing movie because even this little bit we got is much better than the movie.

This short cartoon is a the story of Jack the Ripper combined with the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The cartoon starts mysteriously and provides a good basis for the further story, but due to its short duration, it quickly jumps to parts of the chase in order to make some kind of complete ending.

The animation is also well done, and I'm sorry that this cartoon isn't a bit longer, because it would have been much better and more popular.

Review by unclenugget

Remember that Hugh Jackman Van Helsing movie that was massive in 2004 and no ones really talked about it since? This was like a promo or cash in animated movie from around its release. It's not horrible, change the names of the characters and you're just watching an animated Batman movie.

Review by diegodelavegas ★★★½

liked this a lot more than i thought i would. animated van helsing is baby girl

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