Rise of the Lycans

I freely admit that when I first saw Underworld, and Kate Beckinsale mentioned the war with the "lycans", I had no idea what she meant. I saw that they were werewolves, yes, and lycanthropes, yes, but somehow I thought she was saying "lichens". There was a war with the moss? How would that work?
One that note, I went to see the prequel to both Underworld movies-Rise of the Lycans. No, I did not go see The Reader, or Doubt or Milk or Benjamin Button. I wanted something mindless that would not make me think too hard, if at all, and this movie fit the bill.
That said, for a mindless movie, Michael Sheen was really giving it his all. (and when is this guy getting an Oscar nod? he's been consistently good in everything I've seen him in, yet very little love from the Academy-please remedy that). He was a welcome actor in a movie full of enjoyable overacting (Bill Nighy, I'm looking at you) and non-acting (whoever it was as the Kate Beckinsale lookalike).
Any confrontation scene between Nighy and Sheen was tremendous fun and almost got me to overlook the dark dank sets and Nighy's jeweled clothes, which I have to admit I coveted. There were a lot of fights, a lot of werewolves and a lot of "we have to fight our way out slavery" type scenes and it was all fun. It's always good when the acting is good in these types of movies (which is far from a guarantee) so to see Nighy and Sheen (both of whom have come quite aways from the first Underworld movie) both giving great performances made me happy.
Please don't ask about the plot. Does it matter? I will say that I was surprised to see Sheen showing so much skin and in apparently such good shape-good for you! If you're the type of person to even think about seeing this sort of movie, you'll enjoy it.