Before I get to the review I think it should be noted that Corey Feldman was supposed to be in this movie, but his scenes were cut. Normally that information would bode well for a movie, but not in this case. All you really need to know about this movie is that after seeing it you'll be left wondering how bad Feldman's scenes must have been that they weren't good enough to make it into this pile of garbage.
This movie is a less clever version of Scream with a video game werewolf tossed in. The only thing worse than the plot "twists" are the ridiculous cgi effects.
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The movie begins with the over done scene involving teenagers at a carnival encountering a fortune teller who sees blood in their futures. This particular fortune teller seems to deal in the immediate future because less than 5 minutes later the girl who's palm was read is in a car accident with Christina Ricci that results in her being killed by the werewolf. Here is the first CGI nightmare when her lower torso is ripped off and her digital remains crawl around on the ground in an attempt to gross out anyone afraid of Adobe Photoshop.
The story revolves around Christina Ricci, who works for the Craig Kilborne show (why?) and her wimpy brother who has the jimmies for the class hottie that happens to be dating the guy who always picks on him. Believe it or not, word is that this movie has been years in the making which is the best explanation one can come up with as to why the writers chose to have Ricci work for the Craig Kilborne show (it's cancelled now you tard). The only thing lamer than that would have been if she worked for Carson Daily. Although seeing that metrosexual get killed by a werewolf might have given the moviegoers something to cheer about.
The other main character, who is obviously the werewolf, is Joshua Jackson (aka Pacey from Dawson's Creek or the guy from that horrible Skulls movie). They try to sell Pacey as a playa who is ready to settle down with Ricci, but gets foiled by all of the hot women hitting on him at parties and what not. Oh yeah, and he might be the werewolf.
The rest of the ride to the final battle isn't worth analyzing, but I will say that one especially horrible scene involves a female werewolf flipping the digitized bird to Ricci after she insults her hair and skin.
From here we get to the last scene were Pacey comes to convince Ricci that they can be happy together as werewolves and she rejects him on cue so he decides to kill her. Surprisingly though she kills him instead. Surprising if you missed the entire movie because you thought you were at Shark Boy and Lava Girl and wore 3-D glasses the whole time that is.
Needless to say, immediately after chopping off Pacey's head, Ricci and her brother walk outside and the hot girl is suddenly there and just happens to like the brother and makes out with him in the yard. Then he walks her home with her gay friend and Ricci makes a joke about having to stay home and spend all night cleaning the house. ha ha. Oh yeah, too bad she just decapitated her boyfriend 2 minutes ago and his murdered carcass is laying on the kitchen floor.
So basically the camera cuts away to the credits and it's considered a happy ending. This seems impossible for the characters who have just had to face the fact that they live in a world were werewolves can come at night and kill you. I mean once you reach that point wouldn't pretty much everything else scare you? "Hey honey, what's that noise outside the window?" "Oh it's nothing dear, oh wait a second...maybe it's not nothing. I forgot, WEREWOLVES EXIST."
This movie is a less clever version of Scream with a video game werewolf tossed in. The only thing worse than the plot "twists" are the ridiculous cgi effects.
********spoilers********
The movie begins with the over done scene involving teenagers at a carnival encountering a fortune teller who sees blood in their futures. This particular fortune teller seems to deal in the immediate future because less than 5 minutes later the girl who's palm was read is in a car accident with Christina Ricci that results in her being killed by the werewolf. Here is the first CGI nightmare when her lower torso is ripped off and her digital remains crawl around on the ground in an attempt to gross out anyone afraid of Adobe Photoshop.
The story revolves around Christina Ricci, who works for the Craig Kilborne show (why?) and her wimpy brother who has the jimmies for the class hottie that happens to be dating the guy who always picks on him. Believe it or not, word is that this movie has been years in the making which is the best explanation one can come up with as to why the writers chose to have Ricci work for the Craig Kilborne show (it's cancelled now you tard). The only thing lamer than that would have been if she worked for Carson Daily. Although seeing that metrosexual get killed by a werewolf might have given the moviegoers something to cheer about.
The other main character, who is obviously the werewolf, is Joshua Jackson (aka Pacey from Dawson's Creek or the guy from that horrible Skulls movie). They try to sell Pacey as a playa who is ready to settle down with Ricci, but gets foiled by all of the hot women hitting on him at parties and what not. Oh yeah, and he might be the werewolf.
The rest of the ride to the final battle isn't worth analyzing, but I will say that one especially horrible scene involves a female werewolf flipping the digitized bird to Ricci after she insults her hair and skin.
From here we get to the last scene were Pacey comes to convince Ricci that they can be happy together as werewolves and she rejects him on cue so he decides to kill her. Surprisingly though she kills him instead. Surprising if you missed the entire movie because you thought you were at Shark Boy and Lava Girl and wore 3-D glasses the whole time that is.
Needless to say, immediately after chopping off Pacey's head, Ricci and her brother walk outside and the hot girl is suddenly there and just happens to like the brother and makes out with him in the yard. Then he walks her home with her gay friend and Ricci makes a joke about having to stay home and spend all night cleaning the house. ha ha. Oh yeah, too bad she just decapitated her boyfriend 2 minutes ago and his murdered carcass is laying on the kitchen floor.
So basically the camera cuts away to the credits and it's considered a happy ending. This seems impossible for the characters who have just had to face the fact that they live in a world were werewolves can come at night and kill you. I mean once you reach that point wouldn't pretty much everything else scare you? "Hey honey, what's that noise outside the window?" "Oh it's nothing dear, oh wait a second...maybe it's not nothing. I forgot, WEREWOLVES EXIST."