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Word do your mummy you know what time it is so don't go anywhere
It's cinemassacre. It's monster madness
80s's-A-Thon
How much more 80s can you get then Teen Wolf at the time?
It was a big deal it had a sequel and a cartoon series, but how good is the original film frankly?
It's average except for one standout feature Michael J Fox
Without him this would be a run-of-the-mill cheesy B movie, but Fox's likability raises the bar
Everybody knows him as Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy
But he wasn't originally cast as Marty another actor Eric Stoltz was the original and while Stoltz was filming Back to the Future
Fox was working on Teen Wolf in an interview one time
Michael Jay said Steven Spielberg's down the road doing great movies and Here. I am playing a werewolf
Well of course the role of Marty was recast and Fox got the part. It's funny to know that's how Michael J
Fox was picturing himself at the time of the shooting
Embarrassed to be a werewolf
I'm a
Werewolf he had Lon Chaney jr. Syndrome. Oh, I changed into a wolf. I turn into a wolf
I change in Teen Wolf Fox plays Scott Howard who's just your typical teenager?
That's upset that his life is too ordinary, but that's all about to change
He plays on the high school basketball team and is lousy
He wants to date the popular chick while being oblivious to a girl named "Boof" who likes him
What kind of name is Boof by the way? I assume it's a nickname, but they never bothered to explain it
He's also got a nutty best friend named Stiles who likes to wear zany catchphrase
T-shirts and acts like a fool. This movie is drenched in 80s fashion
Just check out Stiles pants!
One of his other friends on the basketball team is Chuck played by Mark Holden who you might remember as Francis from pee-wee's big adventure
So far it's all typical stuff until the beast inside Scott begins to emerge
He starts to find hairs on his chest gross fur on his hands and notices. He's growing pointy ears and
Then he makes a full
Transformation into a wolf with the transformation scene they use a lot of cutaways adding on makeup between each shot
It's not like the universal movies where they gradually applied makeup to Lon Chaney's face through a series of cross dissolves
It's cheaper, but still works it turns out his father as a werewolf - yeah
It's just a family curse and Scott is unhappy that his father never told him about it like oh yeah, thanks
I just transformed into a fucking werewolf! I gotta talk about my favorite scene Scott tries to buy a keg of beer, but he's underage
give me a
keg of beer,
And of course he doesn't ask for any specific kind of beer just beer. During one of his basketball games
He gets the ball, and they all huddle on top of him his aggression takes over
And he becomes a werewolf right in front of everyone's eyes! In real life
everyone would be freaking out, but here they get excited about having a werewolf on the team!
And he becomes a real big shot it makes no sense
But it's a comedy so you can go with it now the popular girl likes him
He's a star player the team's winning everything seems to be going good
But going around as a werewolf all the time starts to bring about problems
So in order to win the final game and to get his life all back together and all that good shit
Scott just has to be himself
Not a bad moral, but come on
Don't you want to see the werewolf again the last act is just a long basketball game and becomes more like a sports movie
It's kind of like the tournament at the end of The Karate Kid
But at least there you get to see Daniel use some skills that he's learned to defeat his opponent
Here nothing special happens you keep thinking. He's gonna have to turn into the werewolf at the last minute, but it never happens
Overall it's a fun movie but too bad Scott's dad wasn't played by Christopher Lloyd
Great Scott!
So, that's it do I really need to talk about Teen Wolf Too?
Why not? No Michael J Fox here this time the stars Jason Bateman from the Hogan family?
It's just a ripoff of the first movie same plot same gags. Not a whole lot to say
Instead of high school it's College instead of basketball. It's boxing and instead of being a cool movie. It's just a bunch of horseshit!
It's that certain kind of shit sequel that just tries to capitalize on the success of the first movie
It's almost like a musical because there's so many song and dance scenes, Oh my god!
They even do the entire song there was also the Teen Wolf cartoon, which I remember watching all the time when I was a kid.
Nowadays nobody seems to remember it anymore
It's faded into obscurity like other 80s cartoons like Back to the Future the Karate Kid attack of the killer tomatoes
Man, they must not hold up, too. Well yeah the team of cartoon
It wasn't that great, but had some memorable voices. You know who that is now. It's Charlie the votes well
It's the same guy who did race Stan's from the Real Ghostbusters
Yep, Frank Welker who is also Megatron and Soundwave
Best thing about the Teen Wolf cartoon? The intro! is that 80s or Is that eighties?
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