{"id":4367,"date":"2024-10-05T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2024-10-12T22:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:13:55","slug":"teen-wolf-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/05\/teen-wolf-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Wolf Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Teen Wolf Too <\/strong>(1987)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Atlantic\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 94 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, suggestive material)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Christopher Leitch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: R. Timothy Kring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Mark Goldenberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jules Brenner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 20, 1987 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, Jon Astin, Paul Sand, Stuart Fratkin, Mark Holton, Estee Chandler, James Hampton, Beth Ann Miller, Robert Neary, Rachel Sharp, David Burton, William H. Burton, Kathleen Freeman.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $7.9M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0Teen Wolf Too<\/strong> is something you see every day, a sequel that absolutely nobody asked for. A follow-up to the so-so 1985 comedy-horror about a teenage werewolf, it tells the same basic story with a few minor changes. It replaces high school with college, basketball with boxing and Michael J. Fox with Jason Bateman (Silver Spoons, The Hogan Family). Other than these small details, it\u2019s the same damn movie only not as good. Actually, it stinks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Todd Howard (Bateman), the cousin of the original teen wolf, is attending Hamilton University on a boxing scholarship despite never having set foot in a ring in his life. Scott\u2019s former basketball coach (now played by Paul Sand) changed jobs; he\u2019s now the boxing coach at Hamilton. He recruits Todd hoping he inherited the family curse. Having a werewolf on his losing team would certainly turn things around for them. All Todd wants to do is study veterinary science and get to know Nicki (Chandler, Avenging Angel), a sweet, intelligent girl who likes the shy, awkward Todd.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The last thing Todd wants or needs is to be a werewolf. But you can\u2019t hide from who or what you are. Sooner or later, it comes out. For Todd, it first comes out during an important reception that naturally descends into chaos replete with a large green Jello mold landing squarely on a deserving person\u2019s head. Ha, ha, hoo boy. ANYWAY, Todd becomes an instant BMOC after transforming during a match and winning it by a knockout. Suddenly he\u2019s surrounded by girls, getting unearned top grades and having his ass kissed by the college dean (Astin, The Addams Family). Predictably, he becomes a dick.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For whatever reason, the makers of Teen Wolf Too<\/strong> have Todd going to school with two of Scott\u2019s old friends, Stiles (Stuart Fratkin of Ski School replaces Jerry Levine) and teammate Chubby (still played by Mark Holton of Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure). It makes about as much sense as making a sequel to some mediocre comedy without its original lead (Fox refused to reprise his role). Then again, they managed to squeeze out three more Police Academy sequels after Steve Guttenberg left. In any event, it\u2019s a desperate attempt to make something out of this flea-bitten dog of a teen comedy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s bad enough they even made Teen Wolf Too<\/strong> to begin with. It\u2019s compounded by its wastefulness where a few cast members are concerned. Kim Darby (Better Off Dead) has some good moments as Todd\u2019s biology professor and faculty adviser. She, of course, has her reasons why she\u2019s so concerned with the choices he\u2019s making. No, she doesn\u2019t have a thing for him. Chandler is endearing as a nice girl, the one Todd should <\/em>be with. Instead, he sets his sights on the stuck-up Southern mean girl Lisa (Miller, Gimme an F) whose boyfriend Gus (Neary) is the psycho he\u2019ll have to face in the big championship match at the end. I\u2019ll personally arrange a free brain scan for anybody who can\u2019t correctly guess the outcome.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Fratkin, a comic actor I really like, is pretty good as Stiles. Bateman, on the other hand, needs to go back to TV where he belongs. Unlike Fox, he can\u2019t carry a feature film. I\u2019m amazed he still has an acting career. In all fairness, he did improve with age. Astin is simply embarrassing as the faculty antagonist, a bullying jerk who doesn\u2019t go anywhere without his vicious dog, the best actor in the movie btw.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The one and only time Teen Wolf Too<\/strong> sort of comes to life is when Todd-Wolf lip-synchs a rendition of \u201cDo You Love Me?\u201d accompanied by sexy girls and back-up dancers while an annoyed Nicki looks on in disgust. It\u2019s almost fun. Well, it\u2019s slightly better than any other given scene. Directed without a hint of style or individuality by Christopher Leitch (Border Cop), it\u2019s bad. I\u2019ll concede that I\u2019ve seen worse, but this one still ranks somewhere in the bottom 20. It\u2019s definitely one of the most unnecessary sequels ever made.\u00a0 On that, I stand firm.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Isn\u2019t it interesting that Teen Wolf Too<\/strong> opened the same day as the dreadful rom-com Date with an Angel? The latter title lasted a grand total of five days in theaters before being yanked by the studio. It\u2019s a wonder the same fate didn\u2019t befall the howlingly terrible Teen Wolf Too<\/strong>. I went to see it the day before Thanksgiving. What can I say? I wanted my turkey a day early. It is a true gobbler. Some movies come from the heart; this one comes from the end of the turkey that goes over the fence last.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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