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Siskoid

I suppose the makers of An American Werewolf in Paris - which I partly confused with Seth Green's first Buffy episode in my head - though that in '97, throwing CG werewolves at us would be the equivalent of the 80s London adventure's revolutionary animatronics. It's not. One of these two movies has withstood the test of time, and it's not Paris. The wolves are ugly, and while I've seen worse in terms of integration, even from after 1997, you see too much of them, which takes away a lot of the horror. That's if the movie even recognizes that it's part of the horror genre. The original was tonally discordant too, but in a pleasurable way. This one leans too heavily into comedy, with its goofy hero (Tom Everett Scott) falling prey to incessant slapstick and dumb sex stuff (predating, but still evoking American Pie-type stuff), while he and Julie Delpy run around to try and stop Paris' unusually large werewolf population from taking over the city by shooting up with a drug that spoofs the lunar cycle (so it also evokes Blade). Delpy is apparently who you call when you need a French woman to fall for a travelling American, but her talents are absolutely wasted here. All the women in the movie are simply there to fall in love or lust with the hero (not that he ever deserves it), so yuck. Julie Bowen becoming undead and haunting his ass, trying to get him killed, is an element that gave me hope, but alas, they soon forget all about her. Irritating soundtrack too.

6 months ago

pegs404

Atrocious, compared to the masterpiece that was the original. Predictable, boring, and not an ounce of humour to make up for it.
Julie Delpy was great, though!

2 years 7 months ago

EssexMutant

It's rare for a sequel to be made with so little understanding of what made the original film a success.

7 years ago