Monster
Crap Inductee: An American Werewolf In Paris
Crappy
Sequels Get Hairy
1997
In
1981, director John Landis (who had 3 straight successful comedies in Kentucky
Fried Movie, Animal House, and Blues Brothers) decided he needed to go into the
horror genre with his comedy and made a film that was a hit in An American
Werewolf In London.
With
legendary effects by Rob Boutin, the film would win an Academy Award for Best
Makeup. John would then make Trading
Spaces and his legacy would change forever when he was one of the directors for
Twilight Zone: The Movie, and not in a good way. You see, he did the opener
(which went off fine) and the first segment, but sadly that first segment was left
unfinished because of a very reckless decision Mr. Landis made. The segment was
supposed to finish in Vietnam with great character actor Vic Morrow holding two
Vietnamese children and running away from a helicopter at night near explosions
without the presence of a teacher or social worker in what was already a
violation of California law. Despite warning that shooting too near the
explosions could cause helicopter issues, John Landis wanted a closer shot of
the actors and demanded the copter fly in closer. An accident with the
explosions happened and the helicopter landed on top of Vic Morrow and the two
Vietnamese child actors, killing them instantly.
The
whole incident caused both Steven Spielberg and George Miller to want nothing
to do with John Landis after this movie, caused a manslaughter trial (where for
some reason, everyone was acquitted of), and resulted in the establishment of
Motion Picture & Entertainment unit with in CAL FIRE Office of the State
Fire Marshall. At the funeral of Vic Morrow and the two Vietnamese kids, John
Landis cemented his asshole status to caring that his directing career may be
over. And of course that turned out to be false as he then directed the Michael
Jackson Thriller and Paul McCartney’s Spies Like Us music videos, Spies Like Us
(the actual movie), several BB King music videos, Three Amigos, and Coming To
America. His directing career was however not as good only because he directed
a streak of box office bombs like Oscar, Innocent Blood (which was actually
decent), Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Stupids, and Blues Brothers 2000. Bottom line
is despite whatever I say about American Werewolf In Paris, let’s not get it
twisted that I would have wanted John Landis to make this sequel either because
fuck him (and fuck his asshole son Max too).
Okay…back
to the topic at hand (sorry for the rant, but I needed to get that off my
chest), John Landis actually wanted to do a sequel in Paris because he had
problems making the first film and almost moved the location to Paris to be
cheaper, so he actually wanted to make good on that idea in the sequel. The
original script would actually be a continuation of the first film in London
where a character would investigate the death of the main characters in the
first film. That script was cancelled and at that point, John Landis was gone
from the making of the sequel. They also had one point had Marco Brambilla (the
director of the fun Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipes film Demolition Man) at
the chair and actual practical effects. But Brambilla eventually left as well
which left the next choice to be Anthony Waller (who directed a good film
called Mute Witness). They then also decided “fuck those practical effects,
let’s do CGI”. CGI, that I might add that was barely passable in 1997!!!!
As for
the cast, they had to hire a whole new cast as they decided this film would
have no acting connection with the first film. For the lead, they hired Tom
Everett Scott (who just was in That Thing You Do just a year ago). For the
female love interest, they hired Julie Delpy (who was in the 90s Three
Musketeers film and in a Richard Linklater film Before Sunset). They would also
need an American female who would appear at some point in the film so they
hired Julie Bowen, (who was the love interest in Happy Gilmore). For everyone
else, they just hired people they could get to work on the film.
There
is one Monster Crap alumni as this film. Vince Vieluf, years after this film,
would be an extremely hated turd I have inducted in Epic Movie.
And
with all that said, it’s time to look at this crap sequel. We begin on a stormy
night in Paris as we look at some gothic architecture and get the title screen.
After
looking at that architecture, we see a guy coming out of the sewers from a
manhole.
Help….The
Paris Ninja Turtles Are Not As Friendly As The Ones In New York
He
calls for the nearby taxi to give him a lift, but he gets grabbed and dragged
back to the sewers as the cab driver just runs away as all this goes on as we
get the crescendo to a performance going on at one of the theatres.
Sorry….My
Job Does Not Call For Me To Deal With Sewer Creatures. You’re On Your Own.
We then
go to one of those European trains with a dining cart in it as three Americans
are heading to Paris. One of them pays and tells the waiter to keep the change,
but the stuffy waiter tells him there is no change.
This is
our main character Andy McDermott, who is on this trip with his friends Brad
and Chris.
Chris
Is The Guy In The Tank Top And Brad Is The One Snickering
We find
out they are going to Paris as part of their trip to do daredevil stunts in
Europe and right now, the leader in daredevil points is Brad. They also talk
about sex points and Chris says that the woman who just arrived smiled at him.
Andy
says that she isn’t interested in douchebags like them (he is also referring to
himself) and says that European babes are charming and sophisticated. Chris
says he will give Andy 20 sex points if he can get her phone number, which Andy
says she is not his type. Brad gets on him for not making a move on this girl
this entire trip, which Andy says he is choosy. He is reading a map because
back in 1997, we didn’t have apps for our maps so we had to go old school or
read a road atlas (yes, I am 42 so I would freaking know). Andy then says once
they get to Paris, he will show them a stunt they will never top.
We then
go to the Eiffel Tower as people are leaving because the tours are closed for
the night. Our three American guys sneak in past the guards and get to the
highest part of the tower you can stand at as apparently, this stunt will
involve Andy bungee jumping off the Eiffel Tower, which his friends are not
okay with him doing as it is extremely dangerous.
However,
they have to hide as a woman comes up for a reason unbeknownst to them.
She
goes to jump off the Eiffel Tower to her death and Andy jumps after her.
Problem is he never got the rope hooked in so his friends have to grab the rope
so he doesn’t meet a rocky end as well.
Andy is
able to catch the woman by the foot and slow her down so she does not die when
she gets to the ground. He then goes back up thinking he did a successful
bungee and saved an attractive woman (getting a shoe in the process), but he
bumps his head on one of the steel beams.
We then
go to a hospital as Andy wakes up with both Chris and Brad concerned. He is
obviously busted up from that stunt.
They
give him props for the stunt and saving the girl’s life. Andy starts pining for
the girl he saved and says he needs to find her. They try to say that it will
be impossible to find her with just a shoe, but Andy says she also had a note,
which they have not found. Chris and Brad leave to go find the suicide note, a
task that is done in montage set to Smash Mouth’s “Walkin In The Sun”.
We go
back to Andy as he sees the woman who he saved walking by as she is a nurse.
He
tries to talk to her, but he gets hit in the head by a door as a guy walks out.
He
wakes up with her gone again, but his friends checking on him again and telling
him that they found the note and know where she lives.
After
he finally gets out of the hospital, they go to the address of where she lives.
We find
out her name is Serafine Pigot and she is shocked and not 100% happy to see
them.
She
takes the shoes, but it is noticed that her hands are bloody. She tells them
they must not stay here, but because of the blood on her hands, Andy thinks she
is trying to commit suicide again. She says it is paint as she is painting the
cellar and tells them to leave. He eventually is able to talk her into meeting
him for a talk tomorrow at the concert hall at 4 pm.
Brad
and Chris try to get him dressed appropriately and try to give him tips on
dating. They also put condoms in his pocket and split when they see her
arriving on a bike. They go for coffee and it goes incredibly awkward including
the condoms, which he tries to say is American style bubble gum. She makes him
chew and blow a bubble to prove it. It goes about as bad as the idea sounds.
She is
about to leave (thinking he is just after her for sex), but he gets her to stay
by saying he gets nervous and makes dumb moves when he is nervous with a girl. He
says she is beautiful, but also sad at the same time and he would like to help
with the sadness part. It’s obvious that she likes him and thinks he is brave
for saving her life, but she also thinks he really can’t get too close to her. The
condom bubble blew into another guy’s soup and he goes to confront him. Andy
gets headbutted and Serafine throws him into drawer full of wine glasses,
showing off her strength.
She
leaves in embarrassment as he chases after her, impressed by what she did. He
thinks she wants him to leave, but she stops him. She touches her face and he goes
to kiss her, but she says she has to leave and tells him not to get involved.
He doesn’t know what she means by that, but she leaves before explaining it to
him.
They go
back at night to her place and ring the doorbell, but it is answered by a guy
who says he looks out for her named Claude.
Claude
says Serafine is out right now, but says she will be at a party he is throwing
tonight and invites them to join with flyers for the Club De La Lune. He also
says to tell the man at the door that Claude sent them.
So they
go to Club De La Lune, which is in a run down part of town.
The
bouncer originally doesn’t let them in, but he does like they are American and
when they are told about Claude sending them, he let’s them in.
When
they enter, Andy does not believe that Serafine would be in a club like this. Claude
meets them and says Serafine will be late, but she will so up so until then,
enjoy the party. Andy wants to go back to the villa to see if she is there, but
Chris decides to go instead so she can immediately see him if she comes to the
club. Chris tries to ring the doorbell at the villa, but no one answers. He
then hears something in the basement and when he looks through a window, he
sees Serafine in a cage. Serafine tries to tell him to go away, but when Chris
immediately talks about Andy being at Club De La Lune looking for her, she knocks
Chris out and runs to the club as Andy and Brad are in danger. Chris wakes up
in the cell himself afterwards.
Serafine
arrives and forces the bouncer to let her in. The one thing that is definitely
noticeable is after letting Serafine in, he bars the doors and removes the sign
of the club as if this was all just a fake club. Serafine grabs Andy and says
they immediately need to get out of the club. She takes him to a back way in
the sewers and Claude has to follow behind as he wanted Andy here. Brad also
goes in too. Back at the villa, Chris is able to get out of the cell. Serafine
takes Andy to a secret path and tells him to run. He kisses her, but she
insists he run. Inside the club, Claude’s friends start turning into the
werewolves and we see some of the crappy CG of Serafine turning into a werewolf
because of a full moon.
At the
club, werewolves are killing party goers and when party goers try to escape,
they find that they are unable to get out as the door is barred. Also, if you
are wondering why I am not showing any of this, it is because the lights are
flickering to avoid seeing too much of the terrible CGI.
This Is
The Best I Could Get
Brad
finds the hole that Serafine shoved Andy into, but Serafine is elsewhere. Back
at the villa, we see Chris finding a werewolf in a hospital bed with heart
monitors and everything in this cellar.
Get Out
Of Here, My CG Is Crap
Chris
has to run from a no legged werewolf the same way he came in and yes, it looks
as stupid as it sounds. Back in the tunnels, Brad is still looking for Andy or
Serafine, but he finds a werewolf instead.
Brad Is
Dead
Andy is
still in the tunnels which are definitely the sewers. He hears footsteps and a
werewolf shows up to attack. He is able to stab the werewolf, but that only
mildly inconveniences it. As Andy runs into a pipe, he gets bit.
Andy
gets away, but if you know werewolf lore, he is been cursed.
Not
That Kind Of Cursed
Andy
wakes up in a bed and we see that Serafine is taking care of him by making a
human heart blend smoothie.
Andy
hears pebbles thrown at the window and goes to investigate. He sees that it is
Chris, who tells him that he needs to get out of there. Serafine comes in and
has Andy go back to bed as Chris hides. He tells her about a wild dog attacking
him and was worried he had rabies, which Serafine immediately told him it was
not rabies.
And It
Isn’t Lupus Either
He
tries to leave even though she tried to give him the heart smoothie (but he
hates clamato). She then gets out top of him and takes off her shirt. She has
him put his hands on her breasts to apparently “calm him down”.
I Don’t
Know If She Doesn’t Know Many Men, But That Is Not Going To Calm Them Down.
She
tries to explain to Andy that he isn’t the same as he used to be. She is about
to tell him the whole werewolf thing, but he does not believe her. He thinks it
is a kinky game, but then we see this is a dream of some kind. Then we get a
weird bit where she turns into a werewolf on him after waking him up from the
“dream”.
He
wakes up from that with Serafine still on top of him (and she also has his
hands on her breasts) and it turns out the first part wasn’t a dream, but the
second part was and….it made no freaking sense.
I Think
Nazi Werewolves In The First Film Was Done Better As A Dream Than This Was
Serafine
explains that he was hallucinating, which is normal for someone who just
recently was bitten by a werewolf. A shadow shows up and tells Serafine that
she told her this would happen. That voice is her mother and Serafine explains
that Claude stole her blood and this guy didn’t. Andy then remembers that
Serafine said that her mother was dead and sees a zombie mom.
Andy
says that Serafine is nuts and he runs away out a window.
Chris
tries to go after Andy, but he gets kidnapped by Claude.
Andy
goes back to where Club De La Lune was and sees police investigators there. He
sneaks in and sees body parts collected and then sees Brad in the water dead.
With
investigators seeing him enter a crime scene and figuring out pretty quickly
that he was at this “club” last night, they bring him in for questioning. We
also meet Inspector LeDuc.
Hi….While
Most Of The Cops Will Not Know What Is Going On, I Believe I Have Some Idea Of
What Is Going On. I Am Also A French Actor Who Is Dubbed For This Film.
They
ask if he takes drugs, which he denies. They then ask if he knows what really
happened down there and why every corpse they find has its heart ripped out,
which he has no answer for. He also says he didn’t see as he was chased by a
big wild animal. The investigators have him tested for drugs. As he walks away,
one of the detectives Ben Bou tails him.
Andy
hears loud noises and it irritates him. As he is tripping out, a small dog
starts humping his leg.
Alex
goes to a restaurant and orders a steak with his hands.
An
American woman then walks in.
Her
Name Is Amy Finch
With
his extra senses, he is attracted to her and starts walking on all fours.
He
accidentally gets up her skirt and while this normally should freak anyone out
because this is perverted (he knows this too so he apologizes), but she is more
happy that he is an American than anything else.
Um….Yes,
I Am American And Considering You Have Not Even Tried To Kick My Ass Over This.
You Might Be Into Some Freaky Shit So I’m Going To See Where This Goes.
They
actually hit it off when talking to each other, despite him being more weird. He
then sees Brad’s head and freaks out.
Brad’s
ghost tries to calm Andy down and says they have to talk. Andy thinks this is
an illusion and goes to the bathroom to clean himself up, but Brad is still
there.
I
Should Explain. You See, Like In The First One, Brad Was Killed By A Werewolf
And Since Andy Was Bitten And Is Now A Werewolf Himself, Brad Cannot Go To
Heaven Until The Werewolf Bloodline Is Killed So He Appears As A Ghost To
Torment Andy To End The Bloodline AKA Die, Which Was How It Works In The
Original; But In This Film, His Spirit Only Will Rest Until The Werewolf That
Killed Him Dies.
So
there is a reason for this change and that was because the filmmakers don’t
want all the werewolves to die, but we get a happy ending in some way. Sorry to
spoil that for you, but yeah….this film may be should not be a sequel to the
original if you are going to change rules all willy nilly. After all, this is
the American Werewolf franchise, not the Leprechaun franchise. So by the end, a
rant will be upcoming (sorry in advance).
Brad
also tells him to dump Amy and lock himself up as the moon will rise and he
will change. Andy just thinks Brad is jealous that because Andy is alive, he is
up on the score against Brad now. He then completely goes against what Brad
says and continues to hang out with Amy, while Ben Bou is still following him. So
they go to a cemetery and as “Mouth” by Bush plays, they start making out.
Unfortunately
for Amy, Andy turns into a werewolf and after a short chase, she gets killed.
Ben Bou
tries to shoot the werewolf, but he gets killed.
Andy
wakes up to get arrested by LeDuc, who believes that he killed Amy and Ben. It’s
also heavily implied that he humped the dog that was with Ben to death.
Really….Movie?
LeDuc
tells Andy to wait at the morgue as he is about to get told something. Andy
then gets scolded by Amy’s ghost for killing her.
Rightfully
So….
Brad
also shows up and they argue over Andy’s life and Brad says he warned Andy. Amy
takes offense to this and tries to punch Andy, but being a ghost….it just goes
through him.
Then
another guy who was killed by a werewolf tells them to keep it down.
Brad
tells him to get out of there and Andy hides in a mortuary cabinet so when
LeDuc comes back after being told to lock Andy up, he can’t find him.
The
French Police Are Useless Here (Even Though It Is Really The Luxembourg Police
Since Most The Movie Was Shot There And Not France).
Outside,
Andy gets told that to turn human again, Andy has to kill the werewolf that bit
him and eat it’s heart (again, because I’ve seen the first movie….that
shouldn’t be how this works). Andy thinks Serafine is the werewolf that bit him
and does not want to kill her. The ghosts of Brad and Amy argue some more after
Andy almost got run over by a bus. As they are arguing, Andy gets grabbed by
Claude and his friends.
Claude
thinks that Andy has not yet accepted the gift that has been given to him.
Yeah, Claude and his friends believe that werewolves are superior to humans and
they plan to purify the world against the scum of society. Basically, they
believe millions on medicine and healthcare are being wasted on the wicked, the
stupid, and the lazy. Claude picked all his men based on their loyalty to him
and he can’t have someone who isn’t loyal to him be a werewolf all willy nilly.
He and his friends take Andy to a abandoned church and they want
Andy to prove his loyalty to Claude. And how do they want him show his loyalty?
They
Want Him To Kill Chris And Take His Heart.
Andy
refuses to do such a thing and runs away with the help of Serafine. They pour
gasoline and light a fire behind them while they escape into an underground river.
Back at Serafine’s place, she reveals the makeshift lab and hospital room in
her basement. She talks about a cure and shows her stepfather, who was the guy
no legs that chased Chris away and the guy from the beginning of the movie who
was dragged into the sewers.
She
reveals that her parents thought they had a cure for Serafine’s lycanthropy,
but when they tries the serum on her, it did the reverse and allowed her to
turn into a werewolf without the need for a moon. She killed her mother (thus
the zombie ghost haunting her from earlier…..that Andy could see as well) and
ripping off both her father’s legs, leaving him in a coma and as we saw when he
chased Chris, cursed as well. The fact that she butchered her own parents was
why she was trying to kill herself by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Andy says
that all of that isn’t her fault, but they need to find a way to free Chris. After
tending to his wound (he was slashed in the back by Claude while trying to
escape), they kiss.
And
They Try To Have Sex Before Claude And His Goons Come To That House
A chase
scene commences and Amy tries to narc on Andy so he gets killed as she tries to
whistle to the goons on where he is hiding.
First
Trying To Whistle, But Blood Squirts Out Of Her Cheek
Then
Trying To Whistle Again While Holding Her Cheek, But Causing Her Right Eye To
Pop Out Of Her Head.
Andy
steals a car and immediately crashes the car. He tries to walk like nothing
happened, but the other drivers he crashed into are now chasing his ass along
with Claude and his crew. He jumps on a bus to get away from the other drivers.
He goes back to Serafine and we now find out her father has died. She tells him
that the bad guys killed him and ruined the lab so they have no hope in finding
a cure. Oh, and Claude and his goons stole the serum that immediately causes a
transformation.
And
Left Behind A Flyer Inviting Andy To The Next Party Which Will Take Place In An
Abandoned Church From Earlier Where They Plan To Kill Explicitly Americans.
We then
go to that party where Andy goes in, which the bouncer friend of Claude signals
to Claude about. The bouncer tries to lock the place up, but Inspector LeDuc
and other cops show up. They use their badges to basically go in since they
believe Andy is the killer and he is going to kill someone at this party. Serafine
also sneaks in from a higher part of the church as Andy turns off the music. He
warns everyone that this is a trap and they all will be killed, but of course
no one believes him. This also clues in the cops to where he is at and they
chase him. Outside, we see that the bouncer has barred the door with a
bulldozer.
Claude
and his goons arrive (except for the bouncer), dressed as monks and they have
serums in syringes. Claude unveils himself and has a speech about how he loves
Americans, which gets a huge positive reaction.
He
talks about how great taste Americans have as the cops try to get out, but they are
barred by the bouncer and his bulldozer. Claude’s goons all inject themselves
with the serum. They also reveal Chris is bound in a crucifix position.
LeDuc
says the party is over and arrests some of the goons. Unfortunately, they still
can’t get out. We then go outside to see the bouncer get killed by a giant
statue pushed over the edge by Serafine.
Werewolf
transformations begin and several of the cops and Americans are killed.
Looking
Pretty Bad, Filmmakers
LeDuc
chases Claude into the basement as Serafine breaks open the door and allows
people to escape.
Chris
Also Escapes While Still Being Bound To A Cross.
Andy
kills one of Claude’s werewolf goons and goes into the basement to chase after
Claude as well. Oh and the guy he killed was the one who killed Brad so he gets
to go to heaven.
Not How
This Works, But I'll Get To That Later
Andy
and Serafine split up as LeDuc is cornered, but before he is killed, he falls
into the same hole that was the underground river.
We
Can’t Kill LeDuc.
LeDuc’s
Superior And Another Cop Are Not As Lucky
Serafine
is chased by that werewolf, but she finds a serum and turns herself into a
werewolf. More Scooby Doo Gang like bumbling through corridors happen and we
get a werewolf fight.
Not
Since Mega Shark Vs. Crocosaurus Have Two Crappy CGI Monsters Fought Each
Other On Monster Crap
Serafine
kills the goon as a werewolf, but gets shot by Andy who doesn’t know it is
Serafine.
Oops…..
Serafine
tells Andy to kill her by ripping out her heart. Andy thinks about doing it at
Serafine’s urging, but cops show up so he runs instead. Andy then falls down a
slide into the subway tracks,
Which
Are Somehow There
They
are not abandoned subway tracks as a subway train comes. It is at this point,
Claude also slides down.
Never
Thought I Would Have To Say Werewolf Slide, But Here We Are.
Andy
gets out of the way and Claude gets hit by a train. The subway conductor stops
the train and looks to see what he hit.
Hi, Mr.
Director Of This Film
And
Bye, Mr. Director Of This Film
The
werewolf then starts killing people in the subway.
Because
Like The Restaurant, Sometimes You Gotta Eat Crappy Food That Is Terrible For
You…..Just Because It Is There.
Unfortunately,
Claude starts turning human without getting shot as elsewhere, Serafine is
getting loaded up to the ambulance. Claude wakes up and tries to inject himself
with more serum, but Andy comes in and they fight.
They fight
over the injection and during the fight, Andy finds out that Claude was the one
who bit and turned him into a werewolf.
More
fighting happens before Andy ends up with the syringe and injects himself. He
turns into a werewolf and kills Claude.
He Also
Eats His Heart
Because
of this, Andy is no longer a werewolf as Serafine says that she loves Andy
while in an ambulance. Several moons later, he and Serafine get married.
And
Bungee Jump Off The Statue Of Liberty
And
with that bullshit and the song “Mouth” by Bush playing over the credits, the
film ends.
In
Fact, Here Is The Music Video To That Song
But
that wasn’t the original ending although it was the only ending to be seen by
this DVD as the original ending was discovered in 2017. In that ending, Serafine
sees a vision of her father in the ambulance who tells her that he found a cure
for her before he died. It then shows Andy and Chris arriving to the hospital
to see that Serafine has given birth to Andy’s kid and this kid is also a
werewolf). They actually had a different version of that ending where Inspector
LeDuc was in Chris’ place.
Okay, I
have been holding off on this rant long enough. This movie and it’s lore
betrays the lore of the first film completely. In the first film, David and
Jack are attacked by a werewolf after ignoring the bartender’s warning to stay
on the road and stay off the moors. Jack is killed by the werewolf and David is
bitten. By this sequel’s logic, David should have been cured after the werewolf
that bit him died. Only problem is that first film would have been an extremely
short movie because he is saved by the people from the bar who kill the
werewolf easily. But here is what the first film’s lore actually is that there
is no cure for being a werewolf except for death. Also, Jack haunts David
throughout the film and telling him to die because the only way for a werewolf
victim to actually go to heaven is for the werewolf bloodline to be severed
entirely. So with that logic, Brad should still have been stuck to walk this
Earth because Serafine and Andy are still very much alive Also, even if we go
with this film’s lore, what happened to Amy. Is she still haunting Andy and
Serafine’s asses because the werewolf that killed her (Andy) is still alive
although cured. So why did the movie completely butcher the lore set by the
first movie? They wanted a happy ending. That’s all the reason for this change
and this was always the plan as their was no studio forcing a happy ending to
happen although they did refuse to have the whole werewolf baby be born.
So was
this butchering worth it when it came out? No, it was not as the movie barely
made back its budget and definitely bombed if you include marketing. Julie
Delpy (who played Serafine) has admitted that she only did this movie to pay
her rent (and while she is a decent actress, you could at times see she is only
doing this for the money). Julie would go back to the independent European
films (and be in the Before Sunrise sequel, Before Sunset, and being in
Avengers: Age Of Ultron) and has gone on record as not liking the experience.
Tom Everett Scott (who played Andy) did like the experience simply because he
had never been to Europe before. Julie Bowen (who played Amy) went on to be in
the sequel Happy Gilmore 2 and you may also know her for a big role she did for
a TV series from 2009 to 2020.
She Was
Claire Dunphy In The Hit Show “Modern Family”
Nobody
did much else so it is sadly time to talk about the people who are no longer
with us. David F. Friedman (who played a nightclub visitor) left this mortal
coil in 2011 at the age of 87 from heart failure. Charles Maquignon (who played
the bouncer) died in 2012 at the age of 46. Jean Claude-Denot (who played
Professor Martin) passed away in 2016 at the age of 95.
So now
for my final thoughts on this film. Despite my rants, this movie is not painful
to watch. Sure it has terrible CGI and the acting is average, but the film is
pretty quick to get through and I kind of like the soundtrack. But for a film
that is a sequel to An American Werewolf In London, it is a complete betrayal
of the film before it. Despite my rather low opinion of John Landis personally
due to the fact that it was mostly his fault that Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese
kids are dead, he knew how to make a good film in the 1980s and he knew what
not to do. I mostly blame the script writers and the effects people for this
being bad.
So how
was that, NegaSeth?
I Am
Extremely Disappointed. Where Was The Anger?
I gave
the movie two rants, but other than that….I don’t really despise it. Sorry, you
didn’t get that. What do you have next?
Well,
my final choice is…hmmmmm.
What do
you mean “hmmm”?
Well,
to be honest, I have never seen this movie myself. Maybe you have, but I don’t
know if this will hurt or not. Way too old for my blood.
Ah, so
we might get a fun 1950s movie.
No,
older than that.
A
silent movie?
Kind
of…, but not really that old. From what I understand, this film was a edited
together silent film but with some narration in it. I think this will be the
oldest film you’ve ever inducted.
Edited
togeth…..*sigh* I know the film.
We Are
Definitely Going Way Grand Old School With This Film.
