An American Werewolf In Paris (DVD)

Back in the 1980's, An American Werewolf In London was just the coolest of cool movies, a stylish and very original modernisation of the werewolf legend with special effects by Jon Landis who was involved in Michael Jackson's much admired Thriller video, and stuffed with stem to stern with both the blackest of black humour and songs like Bad Moon Rising which were specifically picked to take the rise out of the whole genre. It was very good indeed ...
...follow up, but in 1997 An American Werewolf In Paris arrived upon the world to try and recapture the magic - such a delay is almost unheard of in cinema, where the normal trick is to get while the getting is good. One could have been forgiven, therefore, for thinking that on this occasion we might have missed out on the normal tepid qualities of the follow up, but unfortunately with AAWIP we get a very bland and meaningless virtual retread of the ...

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An American Werewolf In London was an excellent tongue-in-cheek horror movie. It combined some hilarious moments with scenes of absolute horror and the werewolf evolution effects were the best I have ever seen. They are still yet to be surpassed and won an award for their ingenuity - hours of painting on gelatine and filming..and then more gelatine...woderful gooey stuff. It was and remains one of my favourite horror movies. It was then with a little ...
...little stupid, but basically involves an american tourist in Paris rescuing a girl on the Eiffel tower. She turns out to be a werewolf and a plot is disclosed that a werewolf cult is going to trying to tkae over the world. They have a drug which allows them to become werewolves at any time they like - no need for a full moon. Ok, its all very silly(and sounds like Blade but with wolves), but it could have worked. In the hands of a different director. ...

wampyrii 03.10.2001 · Read full review
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John Landis's classic An American Werewolf in London not only featured benchmark special effects but was also a fairly amusing comedy. This thoroughly pointless sequel tries to repeat the formula but fails on both counts, despite being directed by talented Mute Witness helmer Anthony Waller. Three Americans get mixed up with a werewolf cult in France and...bleurrghh! I can't be arsed to explain the rest. All you need to know is that all the main ...
...are completely dire. The "werewolves", if you can bring yourself to call them that, look more like large moles, and provide plenty of arsenal for the old-skool effects brigade (of which I am one). Where's Rick Baker when you need him. The only good thing I can say is that at least this poor excuse for entertainment is only around 80 minutes long. ...

MonkeyboyUK 04.10.2000 · Read full review
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Let me tell you first that if you want to watch this film and are worried you might be missing something becasue you haven't seen American Werewolf in London then don't worry the only way this sequel could be linked is by the title. Now when I heard they were making this film I thought it would follow on from the AWIL but sadly it didn't.This really though did give the film some breathing space as it would have been nigh on impossible to string ...
...veiwed the film it bored me to death.I felt like walking out as it seemed to be a load of rubbish which was making money off the werewolf franchise but after that i watched it again and it turned out to be one of those gems that gets better everytim you view it. Now the positive side to this was stated above but it also is negative in that some people won't watch a film that they don't like twice.I only did it becasue it was on Sky TV one night ...

rmay666 14.07.2000 · Read full review
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...from the original idea in An American Werewolf in London. But some sequels should never be made and this is one of the definetly. The story is 3 americans in Paris who find themselves in a strange world of werewolves. I wont waste my time writing anything more on this except to tell you--don`t watch it, watch the original american werewolf in london. The gore is limited, there's no suspense, and the decision to use computer technology to create the ...

kirsty_w71 26.08.2000 · Read full review
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Usually the sequel is never as good as the first, but this one is even better than the first. I found it to be a highly entertaining movie with tremendous special effects and the humour. The first was groundbreaking in terms of special effects but the humour was a bit dry. I found that the sequel was witty and thorougly enteraining. The only negative aspect was the lack of character the actors had. In the first one, alot of effort was placed in emphasising ...

JOSI78 27.07.2000 · Read full review
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...into the underground werewolf community of Paris and also becomes a werewolf himself. The CGI werewolves look pretty good, but the amazing transformation details seen in "An American werewolf in London" do not feature. All in all this is an average sequel to an outstanding werewolf movie. ...

pizzacat 11.07.2000 · Read full review
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...as food, from here on it becomes a medley of pursuit and rescue of fair maiden with an excellent American Pie style wit. If you liked the original you may not want this but see it - it was a very good try to add to John Landis' greatest triumph ...

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