a5c7b9f00b Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.
The teenagers Rose Hathaway and Vasilisa "Lissa" Dragomir are best friend and escapee from the St. Vladimir's Academy for more than one year. When the guardian Dimitri Belikov from the St Vladimir's Academy and his team find the girls, they bring them back to the academy. Rose is a Dhampir, a good half human-half vampire breed that can eat regular food and are trained to protect the Moroi from the evil immortal vampires Strigoi. Lissa is a Princess of the Moroi, a good mortal breed of vampires that feed of blood from donors and is capable to control one of the four elements. When they return, the Headmistress Kirova intends to punish Rose, but the old Moroi Victor Dashkov, who was a friend of Lissa's family, dissuades Kirova from her intent. Lissa dates her outcast schoolmate Christian Ozera but unexpectedly she is threatened by someone that wishes to harm her. Victor's daughter Natalie joins Rose and Lissa to help them to seek out who might be the enemy.
Comparing Vampire Academy to Harry Potter and Twilight are not doing this movie justice. Yes, this first book takes place almost entirely on the campus of a school where some magic is performed but these aren't prepubescent witches and wizards, and there are no glittering vampires to be seen. This movie deals with life and death in a very witty way. Readers of the book go in knowing just what to expect but fans of screen writer Daniel Waters should also enjoy the witty dialogue that is reminiscent of "Heathers" and director brother Mark, has brought a style similar to his direction "Mean Girls". I encourage you to keep an open mind and go see this great movie. There are six books in total and all should get the movie treatment to allow women everywhere the joy of seeing Dimitri Belikov come to life.
OK, I feel I have to explain why I&#39;m giving this movie 9 out of 10, especially as I am far from this movie&#39;s main demographic (I&#39;m male and 43).<br/><br/>First of all, I went to see this movie because I had it on a list of movies to see (and I&#39;ll spare you the story of how the list came to be because it doesn&#39;t matter here), and I went in not knowing anything about it. Not only that, but I didn&#39;t see any of the &quot;vampire&quot; stuff that preceded it – like the Twilight series, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Vampire Diaries or whatever. That probably matters because when I went into this movie, my memory of vampire movies was bats flying into windows and not a whole lot more. So I was like, whoa there&#39;s this whole highly evolved mature vampire universe in this movie! I was impressed by how much there was to it, even if I didn&#39;t understand it all.<br/><br/>Which brings me to the one flaw in this movie and why I couldn&#39;t give it 10 stars – which is that it&#39;s hard to understand. There&#39;s serious flaws in the marketing, and this movie could&#39;ve done a lot better with better marketing, but this is the one flaw with the movie itself and it&#39;s pretty serious. (A lot of other people have criticized the marketing – the trailer, the green posters, etc, and it&#39;s all true, the marketing was bad, but I&#39;m going to skip all that and focus on the film itself.) A first-time viewer, unfamiliar completely with the VA universe, is lost and doesn&#39;t understand why what&#39;s happening is happening.<br/><br/>But the movie gave me a funny tingly feeling and I was intrigued by that so I saw it a 2nd time. In between the 1st and 2nd viewings, I read up on the back story – learned all about the different vampire types and the different magic powers they each have and so fourth. The 2nd time I saw the movie, I felt like suddenly I *understood* it. I understood why what was happening was happening. The story is like a jigsaw puzzle; all the pieces fit together tightly, and if you miss a few lines you get lost. Even lines that seem like they are just there for comedic effect are actually integral to the plot. The emotional effect was a lot stronger the 2nd time.<br/><br/>I wondered if the way the book was written was with the author just telling the reader the relevant bits of back-story as it went along. I was curious so I got the first book. Sure enough, that&#39;s exactly how it&#39;s written. But actually it&#39;s worse than that. There&#39;s a lot of scenes in the book that are actually flashbacks, that are missing from the movie entirely. The movie has a few flashbacks but the book has more. So the movie viewer is missing back-story times 2 – once from missing the information that is simply stated as the story goes along, and once again from missing flashbacks that provide back-story as the main story goes along.<br/><br/>I finished the first book and got halfway through the second when the DVD came out. Just watched the movie for a 3rd time on DVD and this time I noticed there&#39;s a bunch of stuff in VA that actually foreshadows stuff that comes later. So not only is the viewer confused by missing back-story but is confused by stuff that won&#39;t be explained until later movies (if any later movies get made – which doesn&#39;t look likely, but one can always hope.)<br/><br/>All in all, I have to say, the VA books are *very* hard to make into movies. I have a feeling other books, like the Harry Potter books, are more &quot;plot driven&quot;, with Character A saying X, character B doing Y – everything dialog and actions taken by character that translates directly into action and dialog on screen, and everything more or less in chronological order. I haven&#39;t read any HP books so I don&#39;t know. But I have read some VA and VA is *definitely* not like that. I think the filmmakers underestimated the difficulty of turning these books into movies and the special care they would have to take to make sure the viewer has enough prior information to understand everything that&#39;s going on on screen.<br/><br/>Which leaves me at saying, VA is a truly amazing movie, but you have to more than give it a chance – you have to actually work for it. Reading the books is best, but at the very least you need to know a lot of back-story in order to understand it. The different types of vampires, how they are related, what their magic powers are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how the vampire academy (St. Vladimir&#39;s) came to be. If you do this, the movie can evoke some surprisingly strong emotions. I wish I could give it 10 stars just for that because it&#39;s magic; it&#39;s different from any other film I&#39;ve seen. The visual style of the film is amazing. The technical stuff, like sets, props, editing, pacing, soundtrack, special effects, etc, is all very well done. The actresses who play the two lead characters (Lucy Fry and Zoey Deutsch) put in amazing, top-notch performances. <br/><br/>Unfortunately I think a lot of people didn&#39;t have the patience to really understand the story and panned the movie. With so many other great movies to see in the world, I guess I can&#39;t blame anyone for doing that. But if you can get past that flaw, and yes it does take extra work on your part as a viewer, VA is a great movie. That&#39;s pretty much what it boils down to.
Vampire Academy is toothless in both substance and style.
Yes, the movie is based on the first book in a series of six teen/young adult Vampire Academy books written by Richelle Mead. The books include: (1) Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters (2007), (2) Vampire Academy: Frostbite (2008), (3) Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss (2008), (4) Vampire Academy: Blood Promise (2009), (5) Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound (2010), and (6) Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice (2010).
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