......at my local Marble Falls multiplex and found it to be less than I'd hoped it might be. The Link If you enjoyed "Van Helsing" with Hugh Jackman and "From Hell" or "Sleepy Hollow," both starring Johnny Depp, you might find this re-telling of legendary lycanthropic lore about equally entertaining. But I was underwhelmed by those three older flicks and by this new one, too. "The Wolfman" is long on eerie atnosphere and period detail but short on new imagination or story innovation and its largely stereotyped screenplay climaxes with two werewolves not only fighting each other doggie-style but also spinning around in combat like Yoda. Lots of growls, howls and disembowels in this gore fest, but no sex and precious litttle suspense to heighten my interest. Neither Anthony Hopkins nor Benicio Del Toro showed me anything new or memorable in their roles. I'm just glad either Nicholas Cage or Keanu Reeves wasn't miscast to respectively overplay or underplay as Lawrence Talbot. And Emily Blunt, though she showed pluck and definite sexual potential, remained Victorian. The man to wolf transformations whenever the moon waxed full were not really much better than many of those previously shown on film and I found the music by Oingo Boingo ex Danny Elfman grew a bit overbearing as my interest in this movie waned. If you're looking to see your first werewolf flick this one will certainly fill that bill; however, other than some marginally improved (?) special effects on display here, there are plenty of better ones already available IMHO. I'll recommend "Avatar," even without any 3-D, as being markedly superior imaginatively realistic fantasy fare unless you're especially ravenous and ready for a pretty predictable picture show prowl with plenty of blood and guts. That fine Canadian band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Guess Who, once had a largely forgotten minor hit with a song entitled "Clap For The Wolfman." I mention this barely remembered song because I feel this mostly mediocre movie rates about the same recognition. Spoiler below!!!!! The human to lupine transfiguration in front of the learned medical personnel calmly assembled in a multi-tiered dissection auditorium, though completely expected, was by far the best scene. Your thoughts?
Just got home. Wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but I liked it. Actually I liked it a little more than I thought I would.
Didn't see a single cat, much less through a window but yeah there were lots of those types of moments. I enjoyed the movie, wasn't great but I'm a sucker for werewolf and/or apocalypse themes. What can I say...
I hated that song -- Clap for the Wolfman -- as it definitely signaled the decline of a good rock band. The Guess Who's later stuff sucked donkey balls.
