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Glover and Gibson are a great team, and just when you thought that this series had nowhere to go but down, it comes back with a vengeance. The storyline is almost trivial, but that doesn't matter. The comedy is great, the interaction of the cast is fantastic, and the special effects are intense. Not one for fluff movies usually, I find myself drawn to this series for its comedic work. Adding the annoyingly appealing Chris Rock to the mix to go along with the annoyingly appealing Joe Pesci is a move that we can get used to. The photo album montage at the end is a nice touch.

I think that a lot of people don't give this one much of a chance. Sure, it's a bit contrived, but folks take this as if it were supposed to be a serious film. It is, in fact, a stab at the old Film Noir genre, and a humorous one at that. Harrelson is as always, Woody Harrleson. Elisabeth Shue is cute but not much of an actress. The best part of the movie is the irony it presents through the plot. Give it a shot, it's worth a look.

This movie was not a terrible successor to the 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London. There are ways in which it could have been worse. The possibility that Seraphine could have been David's (the werewolf in the original) daughter was presented in a rumor mill while the film was still in post, the idea turned my stomach. Thankfully, they took it in a different direction. The humor is good, the special effects are somewhat lacking, but overall the idea was a great one. Fans of the original shouldn't be mad, the two films stand on their own, as separate entities. Will they make another? The question is already being tossed about, I hear.