Variety
Lightweight item is innocuous and well-intentioned but terribly feeble, another example of a decent idea yielding the least imaginative results conceivable.
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Teen Wolf
Straight after going 'back to the future', Michael J. Fox was Teen Wolf in this '80s comedy fantasy. Shy, bog-standard Scott discovers a werewolf family lineage and uses his new found power for popularity, girls and basketball. Amazingly, Teen Wolf would spawn a sequel (1987, with Jason Bateman taking Fox's role), an animated series (1986) and a live-action MTV series (2011 to 2014).
1985Rating: PG91 minsUSA
ComedyFantasy
- Director:
- Rod Daniel ('K-9', 'Beethoven's 2nd')
- Writer:
- Jeph LoebMatthew Weisman
- Cast:
- Michael J. FoxJames HamptonSusan UrsittiJerry LevineMatt AdlerLorie GriffinJim McKrellMark Arnold
Teen Wolf / Reviews
Time Out
Apart from one not very ambitious transformation, the budget requires other boy-wolf-boy switches to happen off-screen.
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The special effects aren't super, but the movie isn't important enough to damage the classic werewolf myth. No silver bullet is needed to dispatch this movie. It dies a natural death as one looks on.
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