Teen Wolf Too
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?
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- Cast:
- Jason Bateman , Kim Darby , John Astin , Paul Sand , Mark Holton , James Hampton , Estee Chandler
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Excellent but underrated film
Admirable film.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Ouch, in reading some of these user reviews Teen Wolf Too is really hated. But really, don't lisen to these jabronies, this is not nearly as bad as they make it out to be. Granted, Teen Wolf is a 80's classic, I would not say the follow up is in that catagory. However, if you can overlook the fact that 80's pop culture icon Michael J Fox is not in it, the film really is'nt all that bad. It does try to copy the 1st film in many respects and is not altogether successful. But, even as a failure, it is not a bad film. It does follow the same formula for every 80's teen comedy and while it is lacking someone like Michael J Fox who could knock this out of the park, Teen Wolf Too is far from unwatchable. Jason Bateman actually gives a pretty decent performance, comparing him with Fox is'nt really fair as he is not a superstar or possessing of Michael's unique charisma and screen presence. The film is not nearly as funny as the 1st film either and at times is a bit corny. Either way, Teen Wolf Too is a decent time passer and if you take into consideration that this movie follows a lot of 80's genre conventions and won't blow you away, Teen Wolf Too is passable campy entertainment.
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament.Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf.As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost.......A cash in in every sense of the phrase TWT is a monstrosity from start to finish. Having to make references every five minutes is desperate enough, but to have two minor actors not coming back to the film, and have them played by someone who looks absolutely nothing like them, you may as well have had Bateman play J. Fox's character.It's a desperate attempt at cashing in on a film that was already cashing on the success of Back To The future. The make up is awful, there are no laughs in the entirety of the movie, and Bateman becomes highly unlikable when he starts to use his powers on a regular basis.And why boxing? Of all the sports the writers could have chose, baseball, Football, Athletics, Running, they choose boxing.It's as bad as people have been saying for the past 29 years, and i'm sure Bateman hates the fact that this is on his CV.But it does have one good line in it.You're wrong, and I'm late.dreck.
There seems to be so much going wrong with this movie before you actually put it into the DVD player and press play to actually question whether it is actually going to be worth your time (all one and a half hours of it, and remember that you are never going to get those one and a half hours back) sitting in front of the television screen (or in my case, the computer) and watching it.Okay, we can forgive the fact that Michael J Fox does not return as the lead character. This is understandable considering we are dealing with a new place and apparently new people. Well, that is actually what made me start thinking about this film and that is that as far as I could tell, there was only one actor, and that is the father (James Hampton) that actually came across from the original movie. However, there were a number of characters that came over as well (including Styles and the Coach) but it appears that these actors had better things to do with their time.Oh, the guy that plays Chubby comes over as well, but maybe that was because he was having a lot of difficulty finding work in Hollywood at the time.Okay, now that we have put that aside, I might then go on to suggest that this film reminds me of The Hangover Part II. No, not because it is about a bunch of guys that get outrageously drunk and have to piece the previous night together (though if they had thrown a werewolf into it, it might have made that movie somewhat more interesting) but rather because it is an exact duplicate of Teen Wolf, to the point that we pretty much know exactly what is going to happen. The only difference is because we are dealing with boxing as opposed to basketball, and we are in college as opposed to high school.Oh, we do have mention of those dreaded sports scholarships that seem to full American Universities with semi-literate people we are able to coast through their courses simply because they are really good at sports (and considering that college and highschool football is actually a big money spinner over in the states, I can see why they want to attract the best athletes). However, we must remember that while the athletes may become millionaires (if they are lucky and don't land up like Al Bundy, working in a ladies shoe shop, caught in some familial situation where he is the butt of all the jokes), it is the geeks that go on to become billionaires (unless, of course, you are like me that you did not actually use your geekiness and your intelligence wisely, and ended up wasting your time playing Dungeons and Dragons, and wasting your money buying Magic Cards).
This is the greatest movie about a werewolf who becomes the star of his college boxing team. What Teen Wolf Too provides:Chubby and Uncle Howard return for the sequel - The worst rendition of "Do you love me" ever recorded, then lip-synced by Teen Wolf Too at a party where he jumps 30 feet in the air, backwards, onto a balcony * One of the great movie mullets of all time - thank you Stuart Fratkin * Frog fight * John Rocker's acting debut * Will Smith's acting debut * Two-sport athlete Chubby goes undefeated as team's heavyweight boxer and is on the fencing team, giving us the most far-fetched dual-sporting career for a college athlete * Teen Wolf Too catches a frisbee in his mouth, then signs autographs * Three consecutive montage scenes with no dialogue * Professor Tonya Brooks * The "I'd like to change some classes" scene. Better than the last scene of Casablanca * Teen Wolf Too loses his virginity to "send me an angel" * Teen Wolf Too punches someone so hard that he flies 15 feet in the air and out of the boxing ring, destroying the press tableIf I had to give it a rating on a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 4,531,899,376.Derwood Morris