It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Jason Bateman is much better than the film deserves, and actually gives a sharp and funny performance despite the mediocre production. We see the same progression in Todd as we had scene before with Michael J. Fox's Scott, where both characters turn on their friends and become real jerks after getting a taste of teenage popularity. The only difference here is that Todd is now playing for the college boxing team rather than a high school basketball team. When topped off with the rather ugly make-up effects, Jason Bateman looks more like a disfigured cat than he ever does a wolf. Paul Sand, Mark Holton, and James Hampton make appearances from the original, with John Astin and Kim Darby joining the cast.Christopher Leitch leaves nothing to chance in this unnecessary sequel, trying his best to recreate the same successes of the first film with very little variance. Still it's the 80's so I can't hate. The story is pretty much a re-hash of the original but is about boxing instead of b-ball and is at university instead of high school. The acting is actually quite good, considering the movie's obvious low budget and overall silliness. The werewolf "FX" (ie - make-up) is a little crude but it is done well enough to just about suspend disbelief.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

So, before there was Internet , Hulu , Netflix,- back when cable TV was something for rich people- there were video rental stores. These were vast warehouse like buildings filled with videocassette tapes ( yeah this was before DVD ) that you could rent for 24 hrs for about $4.00. If you are too young to remember this then you probably don't believe me. Ask an old person, they'll verify these facts. You can understand that this was a huge, profitable industry. Therefore it was necessary to have thousands of titles to fill the shelves. As a result thousands of puzzlingly worthless films were produced in this era. If you watch teen wolf too expecting a good movie - you have missed the point. Did you expect it to be scary? It's not. Did you expect it to be funny? It's not. Special effects? Nope. What it is is +/- 90 minutes of something to watch that wasn't otherwise available on broadcast TV. There are literally thousands of similarly worthless films from the 80's that were made simply so the rental store would have full shelves.

I didn't really think much of the first TEEN WOLF - an '80s high school comedy starring Michael J. Fox as a werewolf - so I wasn't expecting much from this forgotten sequel, either. Indeed, there's nothing much to see here other than a lame re-run of the first movie, with an added ROCKY-style boxing plot to add some action to the inanity.The problem with TEEN WOLF TOO is that it feels flaccid and badly dated as a high school comedy. The best high school movies are adult rated, delivering raucous entertainment that anyone who's ever been a teenager can readily identify with. By comparison, this is a cheap and cheerful sequel, the 'highlight' of which involves a huge '50s-flavoured dance off with our hero headlining in full werewolf costume.The narrative involves some kind of predictable moral fairytale in which our hero must learn humility and to constrain the excesses of his ego. It's all rather sanctimonious in approach, layered with '80s cheese and the usual stock characters: the nerd friend, the bad guy jock, the bimbos. Say what you like about the original, at least it had the likable Michael J. Fox as the lead, whereas here we're saddled with the annoying Jason Bateman instead. He's no match, and neither is this lacklustre movie compared to the warmly-regarded first film.

I saw the first "Teen Wolf" movie when it first came out on video. The fact that it's taken me more than twenty years to see the sequel should tell you what I thought of the first movie, even though I was in the target audience (teenagers) at the time. Well, guess what - this sequel manages to be even worse! It's a lazy sequel, for one thing following the basic plot of the first movie (Teen is a loser, teen finds out he can change into a werewolf, teen gets drunk with power, teen becomes a real jerk, teen realizes he's been a jerk, teen plays in sports tournament at climax intentionally not using his werewolf powers.) To make matters worse, this time around this plot moves at a snail's pace, with only sporadic attempts at humor (all of which crash to the ground.) Jason Bateman here is a bland presence, alternately being whiny or befuddled. The only good thing I can say about this movie is that unlike many other '80s comedies, this one isn't very dated in its fashions and other cultural touches.