At a reported budget of over $5 million for only 13 episodes, at a time when CGI was all the rage, we have Van-Pires, a half CGI, half live action adventure about four teens struck by a falling meteor who subsequently turn into half human - half vehicle hybrids and must use their newly found powers to fight off the evil "Trac-ula" and the rest of the "van-pires", before the suck all the gas out of every vehicle around the globe. All the fighting car segments are CGI, and its some of the most egregious CGI I've ever seen I must say, with live action segments between the action as the teens chill in the junkyard and get help from their mentor "Van He'll Sing", a hippie who owns said junkyard. Together they form the "Motor-Vaters", the team destined to save earth. Nothing but terrible puns, all the dialogue is car related in the worst ways, and none of the plots are particularly interesting. It's very low effort, low intelligence tv for kids, but apparently even the kids didn't like it as was cancelled after only its short single first season. I got through this solely as something on in the background as I did other things, so only paid full attention to maybe 10% of it, but as a drinking game or if you're someone who seeks out truly bad tv like myself, maybe check it out. But I can honestly say this is the worst thing I've seen this year, and yeah its maybe one of the worst things of all time, so if you're one for that kind of thing go for it, otherwise would not generally recommend.
