Viewed in
2010
Premise
Michael J. Fox plays a high school dork who discovers that he's a werewolf.
Who should watch
Fans of Michael J. Fox, or Bill Simmons readers.
Thoughts
Darn you Bill Simmons for making me watch this silly movie! At least it was an entertainingly bad movie.
The main reward is that I finally know what Simmons was talking about every time he made a 'Teen Wolf' reference in his writings. And who this Stiles character was, and why Styles G. White changed his name to that.
Some ridiculous stuff: the werewolf dance was a blatant rip-off of 'Thriller', the bowling scene looked like the Geico cavemen commercial, the 'with great power comes great responsibility' speech, and the absolutely visible caked-up makeup in Fox's closeups. All made me laugh or invoked a WTF moment from me.
What took the cake was the fact that somehow being a werewolf instantly made you a world-class basketball player. I would have loved to be in the writers' meeting for that one.
Was the wolf thing a metaphor for puberty and hormones? Or do I need to be on something before I can correctly tackle this philosophical question?
I watched this because I had reached the Kobe Bryant chapter in Simmons' 'Book of Basketball'. The comparison was pretty good. Though nothing will top his outrageous yet logical comparison of Bill Walton with Tupac.
Nevertheless, it was an excellent example of those 1980's movies that were so bad that they are good to watch. It just might help to be drinking beforehand.
What I would change
Not a single thing.
