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Van Helsing: The London Assignment is a 2004 American anime-influenced adult action horror animated short film by Universal Studios Home Video. It features the voices of Hugh Jackman, Tress MacNeille, Robbie Coltrane and David Wenham. The London Assignment is an animated prequel to the 2004 motion picture Van Helsing (released in the same year). It tells of the events before the film. It was animated by Universal Cartoon Studios, Production I.G, and Sunwoo Entertainment.
The short film received mostly positive reviews, with some noting it to be a significant improvement to that of the original film.




Plot


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. 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.
Dr. Jekyll then kidnaps Victoria, using the Golden Jubilee Balloon to escape. Van Helsing uses his grappling gun to follow the balloon, then proceeds to board it. In the balloon, Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde to kill Van Helsing and crashes the balloon in the process. While fighting on the in-construction Tower Bridge, Mr. Hyde is shot through the arm but manages to escape. Upon returning Victoria to Buckingham Palace, Van Helsing says that daybreak will break the enchantment, returning her to her real age.
To reward him, Victoria kisses him, at the precise moment of daybreak, causing her old self, completely unaware of what happened, to slap him and call for guards. Van Helsing sends word back to Vatican City about what has happened while he tracks Jekyll to Paris.




Voice cast


Hugh Jackman as Gabriel Van Helsing
Tress MacNeille as Queen Victoria
Tara Strong as Young Victoria
Dwight Schultz as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack the Ripper
Robbie Coltrane as Edward Hyde / Jack the Ripper
David Wenham as Friar Carl
Grey DeLisle as the First Victim
Tress MacNeille as the Second Victim
John DiMaggio as Coachman
Scott Mosenson as Palace Guard
Alun Armstrong as Cardinal Jinette
Roger Jackson as Drunken Gentleman
Julia Fletcher as Lady-in-Waiting




References






External links



Van Helsing: The London Assignment at IMDb

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• David Wenham
• Alun Armstrong
• Grey DeLisle
• Van Helsing: The London Assignment
• Van Helsing (disambiguation)
• Van Helsing (film)
• Abraham Van Helsing
• David Wenham
• Universal Monsters
• List of Hugh Jackman performances
• John Van Tongeren
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)
• John DiMaggio