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Rating: **
Genre: Werewolf Horror/Black Comedy MPAA: R (for gore, sex, nudity and other bad stuff) Review #: 13 Cast: Directed by...Anthony Waller Written by...Tim Burns Written by...Tom Stern Written by...Anthony Waller Tom Everett Scott...Andy McDermott Julie Delpy...Serafine Vince Vieluf...Brad Phil Buckman...Chris Julie Bowen...Amy Pierre Cosso...Claude Tom Novembre...Inspector DeLuc Thierry Lhermitte...Dr. Pigot Maria Machado...Chief Bonnet Ben Salem Bouabdallah...Detective Ben Bou Serge Basso...Officer with Flashlight Charles Maquignon...Bouncer Jochen Schneider...Lycanthrope Alan McKenna...Lycanthrope Hervé Sogne...Lycanthrope Edgar Kohn...Lycanthrope Jean-Claude Deret...Professor Martin Isabelle Constantini...Serafine's Mom David F. Friedman...Nightclub Visitor Christian Magnan...Bruno Chris Bearne...Surgeon Pierre Bodry...Waiter on Train Pieter Riemens...Waiter in Restaurant Emile Cappachione...Bodybuilder Serge Hugel...French car Driver John Waller...British Car Driver Nicholas Waller...Taxi Driver Anthony Waller...Metro Driver |
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Review:
In this movie, three american Gen-Xers are on a "Daredevil Tour" of europe. They are award points for all the stunts they do, and Andy McDermott is way behind. When they go to Paris, Andy devises a plan to bungee jump off of the Eiffel Tower. While he's preparing to jump, a beautiful young woman (Julie Delpy) gets ready to do the same thing, but without a bungee. Andy tries to talk her down, and when he fails, jumps right after her, saving her life and grabbing her shoe. Well, it turns out that she's a werewolf, and over the course of the movie Andy gets bitten by a werewolf, and becomes one himself. It turns out that if the werewolf that bit Andy dies, he will no longer be werewolfized. Unfortunately, Andy doesn't want to kill Julie Delpy (who would?). Add into the situation the fact that Julie Delpy's father was working on a serum to stop her change into a wolf, but it does the opposite, turning her into a wolf at any time, and that there is a society of werewolves bent on weeding out the dregs of society. |
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| First off, I have to level with you and admit that I've never seen "An American Werewolf in London", which this movie is the sequel to. I can't appreciate how cool the original was, or how this is an unworthy sequel, like what everyone else seems to be saying. All I can do is judge it on it's own merit, but that doesn't mean I liked it. This movie was sort of an enigma. It was very funny and likable at the beginning. I loved the sequence with the Eiffel Tower, and his Andy's "date" with Julie Delpy was hilarious. There was a point, however, where it turned just a little too morbid to be funny or enjoyable. I'm not sure where it is, but around the time I realized that I wasn't having fun anymore, I was hit by some sort of cool sequence, like that one with the legless werewolf who slowly crawls his way across the floor in an oh-so menacingly manner. |
| On interesting element to the movie is something that I gather was first covered in the original movie. When a person is killed by a werewolf, they are forced to walk the earth as ghosts visible only to werewolves. They can only be released when the wolf that killed them is killed. This does make for interesting situations, and means that just because somebody dies, it doesn't mean that they're out of the movie! Another interesting note is that Wolves seem to be impervious to bullets for the first half of the movie, but then in the finale go down really easy. I guess that it was to make the wolves powerful and invincible early on in the movie, but then they needed some way for the characters to stand a chance in the climax. One possible explanation would be that the wolves under the influence of the serum can be shot, but real "moonie" wolves are invincible, but that's a stretch. Oh well, whatever, never mind. |
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