Best movie ever!

A different way of telling a story

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Blistering performances.

Despite some wonderful makeup effects and and a great performance from the ever charming Michael J. Fox. The film has a very strange feeling with some jokes that land, but the cast never acts like they do, and some jokes that don't land. The film is clearly a product of the 80s, and while it possesses some charm, in the end it's just an average film that had potential but ultimately falls short.

Michael J. Wolf, I mean Fox is a wolf! wolf wolf wolf . I always liked the parts in the classroom when Fox starts hearing wolf being said everywhere. Wolf wolf wolf wolf. "Thomas J Wolf!" Yells one of his teachers during Fox's hallucinations. Fox keeps desperately trying to keep from changing into the wolf in school. He runs through the hallways bathroom to bathroom, trying to find a place where no one will see him. Then he runs into his arch nemises, the principal. The principal does not see him turn into the wolf, well not that time. He does a little while later, along with many other of his student peers during basketball practice. Fox is on the basketball team. Like in most 80s high school movies, there is the bully that the hero keeps getting pushed around by. And the hot girl who the hero has an burning desire for, and the girl barely noticing he's alive. How many other highschool movies have we seen with the same formula? In "Teen wolf", the bully's name is Nick, and the hot girl's name is Pamela. And the two of them are (what a surprise!) going out together. And Pamela is (what a surprise) a blonde. Anyway, one night after a night out, Fox comes home and rushes to the bathroom, noticing something very strange is happening to him. That's his first time changing into the wolf, and it's when we see Fox's father has the same wolf problem. We also learn that the reason Fox's principal gives him a hard time is because Fox's dad, as the wolf, had previous problems in the past with Fox's principal. So the principal is taking it out on him now. Then Fox turns into the wolf during basketball and then decides to keep it that way because he realizes that he has extra powers as the wolf, he's suddenly able to really kick butt at basketball, and his popularity suddenly skyrockets. Personally, Fox looks a lot more like a hairy gorilla than a wolf. And in real life, girls would not be attracted to and want to touch someone that looks like that, no matter how strong it makes him. Fox's friends include a goofball named Styles and a nice "girl next door" type who Fox had been friends with but not intimate with. Fox had always had eyes for Pamala, and once he's the wolf, he does get intimate with her. In Pamela's dressing room after play rehearsal. She pulls off her shirt for Fox, but we only see her from the back. He's also able to defend himself from Nick now. I have one curious question: on a date with Pamela at the bowling alley, they run into Nick. And Nick tells Fox that his mother used to steal chickens from him, and he then shot her. Was Nick just talking s***, or was it true? Cause we never see Fox's mother during this movie, and nothing else is ever mentioned about her from anyone else. And also Fox's reaction is so angry to what Nick said.

When people complain about the "Twilight"-ifaction of the classic monsters, I like to point out that Stephanie Myer did not invent this phenomenon. Cinema isn't that old a medium. It was only about thirty-so years old when the Universal Monsters came along. It was only twenty-some years later when pop culture overexposure had watered the original horrors down to TV sitcoms, kid cartoons, and breakfast cereals. You can't trace a path from Lon Chaney Jr. hunting maidens on the foggy moors to Taylor Lautner turning into a big shiny husky without passing through "Teen Wolf," a fondly remembered bit of ridiculous eighties nostalgia.The premise is hacky, Hollywood, high concept writing at its best/worst/burst. Scott Howard is a high school student who's not quite a loser but definitely isn't cool. He plays, poorly, basketball for his school's poor basketball team. His friends are weirdoes obsessed with van-surfing who can only get into the good parties by promising to bring booze. His object of desire, the hottest girl in school is also a drama student somehow, is way out of his league. All of this is confounded when Scott finds out he's a werewolf. While horrified at first, the powers that come along with the transformations quickly make Scott the most popular kid in school. But, ah, the screenplay implores us, will Scott learn to accept himself for who he is? If that plot synopsis didn't clue you in, "Teen Wolf' is an exceptionally dumb movie. Co-written by Jeph Loeb, a frequently terrible comic writer who gets a life-time pass for "Commando," the movie takes place in that bizarro high school world that only exists in 1980s comedies. One of Scott's basketball teammates is a big fat guy clearly in his thirties. Even the perpetually youthful Michael J. Fox looks a bit too old for this. Jerry Levine plays Scott's best friend, Stiles, a really bizarre creation. Aside from the van surfing, he wears obnoxious t-shirts and MCs inexplicable party games, one of which involve two people in their underwear, tied up and covered in whipped cream. The entire premise hinges on the student body finding a kid turning into a werewolf to be the coolest thing ever. That strikes me as somewhat unlikely. Despite this being made in the mid-eighties, the film parodies "Saturday Night Fever" during the prom scene.Despite its general dumbness, "Teen Wolf" manages to mildly amuse at times. Released the same year as "Back to the Future," Fox is as charming as ever, making his bizarre character a likable every-kid. Even when Scott's sudden popularity is suppose to turn him into a huge jerk, Fox makes him immensely likable. Occasionally, the movie's lame humor catches up with its wacky premise. The basketball couch delivers rambling, heart-to-heart speeches that are in no way helpful. James Hampton is delightfully dead-pan as Scott's very patience father. The jerk principal subplot pays off nicely. Susan Ursitti is also over-qualified as Scott's childhood friend. You know the two of them are going to end up together and it's clear she loves him. However, Ursitti and Fox have great chemistry and she's likable enough to make the obvious plot mechanics less clunky.Like all ridiculous high school stories, "Teen Wolf" tries to play its deeply inane premise for drama in the last act. The school turns on the wolf and Scott is forced to prove himself at the final basketball game. It makes the preceding stupidity seems even more stupid in retrospect, no more so then when an overdone ballad plays over the slow-motion end-credits. The werewolf make-up isn't very good and, considering the tiny budget, it's no surprise that there's only one on-screen transformation. The storyline involving Scott's crush, her douche bag boyfriend, and the drama teacher is terrible. The sometimes homophobic dialogue will probably make you wince. "Teen Wolf" is an occasionally entertaining stupid kid's movie that's a bit too raunchy for kids. Aside from a terrible cartoon show and terrible sequel, the movie would also lend its title to a terrible MTV supernatural romance soap-opera, bringing the "Twilight' connection full-circle.

The tragic story of a simple minded adolescent boy with a rare disease that turns him into a wolf at inappropriate times. Scott is small for his age and has suspect banter which makes him an easy target for bullies and practical jokers. While shaving one morning Scott suddenly turns into a wolf, a painful and humiliating ordeal which fills Scott with an inner steel and a taste for blood. A member of the school basketball team Scott is determined to be accepted as a wolf with or without his glasses on and tries to prove that wolves aren't just big dogs. Sadly for Scott, though more impressive physically and certainly hairier his suspect banter and high pitched teenage voice remain a constant source of anguish. Scott must decide whether to remain as a wolf, stronger, hairier but ultimately less human and therefore an animal or undergo extensive surgery returning him to an awkward teen with average basketball skills and poor eye sight. Scott's father Harold also suffers from the rare disease but has made his choice long ago choosing to stay in during the day and come out at night though always wearing a balaclava and boiler suit.