FlashCallahan
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.
Leofwine_draca
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.
Tango and Cash
Whew, this movie stinks!I think the other reviewers here have covered most of the...highlights. But you know, this was just a cheapy money maker. It's just a reboot of the first one, even including the putt-putt golf scene, which is just shameless. The only new thing is: boxing and a meth-head-looking Stylez.I've been watching arrested development so much lately I thought I'd give TWT a shot, because I'm just hangin around the house tonight.Funny, I texted a few friends that I was watching this movie, and everyone said, "Oh man that movie sucks." Boy, do I agree. It's horrible.The three-in-a-row montage thing really is priceless. I'm actually still watching it right now, and it's on the third song. So funny!Styles looks like...jeez, I'm not sure. His "Missouri Compromise" hairdo sure does work for him though. And yes, Chubby is on the fencing team. A sport for nimble, slim, quick guys. Yeah. A guy named Chubby got a fencing scholarship.This movie is to Teen Wolf what Saved by the Bell: The College Years was to Saved by the Bell - a painful reminder that this show sucks. "Frog fighting in my lab?" Yes! What a half-hearted effort. The script is garbage. That's where the main fault lies - this script is totally, totally ridiculous it's so bad. Wouldn't a human who could turn into a wolf attract some kind of media attention? I mean sure they didn't have Twitter in the 80s, but you'd think ESPN or something might pick up on it. Just sayin'.Oh yeah, I also like how Bateman and his girlfriend both speak Latin and know graduate-level biology. In case you hadn't checked, most freshman are idiots who don't read anything at all. I guess it just wasn't believable.Last thought - do colleges really have boxing teams?
Wizard-8
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.
AD
