An American Werewolf in Paris

A group of three young Americans travel to Paris. Instead of a rich culture, they encounter an underground society of werewolves and one of them becomes An American Werewolf in Paris.

One night while sneaking into the Eiffel Tower after closing, our lead Andy saves the life of a pretty blonde girl named Serafine who tries to kill herself. We quickly learn that she is in fact a werewolf, and locks herself in a cage just before the full moon hits to stop herself from killing. After Andy is bitten by one of the werewolves during an underground party where they feed on humans, Serafine warns him that he will turn when the moon is full. He of course does and kills a few people along the way. Is there a way for Andy to survive being cursed to live a werewolf, or he will meet the inevitable fate we all see coming?

An American Werewolf in Paris is more of a teen comedy/adventure than an actually horror film for me. Sure we get the beasts terrorizing parts of Paris, but a lot of the film plays more to the love between Andy and Serafine and the chase to find a cure for the curse and to stop the cult from murdering hundreds of tourists. Most of the humour is juvenile and typical teen movie-like, very typical of late 90's/early 2000's. We get the friends scoring points for how many girls they sleep with, blowing bubbles with condoms, etc. A lot of it isn't very smart like the original film had going for it. The acting was alright for the most part. Tom Everett Scott is no David Naughton, but very capable. We also get a young Julie Bowen from Modern Family. I thought she was very good as the undead victim following Andy around town.

This sequel is not even close to the level of the original classic film by John Landis. I think I may have enjoyed it a bit more if they hadn't used the name as a means to catch people who enjoyed the original. This one has a neat concept of the underground cult of werewolves trying to feed on American tourists, but at the end of the day it feels very average.

5/10

I don't know why I get my hopes up for sequels... my hopes are always destroyed.

This movie is no exception. For starters, it's important to note that An American Werewolf in London (AAWiL) will always have a special place in my heart as one of the first horror movies I remembers seeing on HBO as a kid.

This movie lacked just about everything that AAWiL had: good acting, good special effects, a decent soundtrack, etc.

Tom Everett Scott is a terrible actor... the kind of actor I see and wonder how he ever gets casted for anything. Julie Delpy is OK and I dig her accent. Everyone else was pretty much fluff and/or fodder. The effects were God awful. It's hard enough to pull off CGI monsters and hairy ones are even harder to make believable. When you are making a sequel for a movie that had effects that are still impressive by today's standards, some serious effort has to be made if the intent is to make a movie that rivals the original. This one isn't even in the same league as AAWiL. The music for AAWiL was also very well done. AAWiP had... Bush? Yeah, that's the route you want to go to create a timeless classic.

Unlike other reviews I wouldn't even go so far as to say this movie would have good as a stand-alone (no connection to AAWiL), but I wouldn't even give it that much credit.

It just sucked.

I enjoyed this movie. Its not in the same league as the Original (An American Werewolf in London), but fun all the same. I think a lot of the reviewers on here have gave it a bad write-up, because they were probably comparing it to the original too much.

6 out of 10 ... It's worth watching.

A sequel to "An American Werewolf in London", but without any correlation between them, which is a shame, because the first one delivers a wonderful ending when the werewolf bites several people at the end of the film, which could have caused a major outbreak, but they chose to create a weak story, with only reasonable effects, but nothing compared to the first one, not very captivating or entertaining...

Serafine is a beautiful young woman, daughter of a werewolf who lives in Paris, where her mother and stepfather fight to cure her of a terrible disease that she inherited genetically, but not everything goes as planned and she tries to commit suicide, putting an end to so much suffering. But she didn't expect that she would be saved by Andy, a young American who travels through Europe with two friends in search of adventure. Serafine and Andy end up falling in love, but the girl tries to fight this feeling knowing that it would be too dangerous for Andy.

When a trio of American teens travel to Paris for a daredevil challenge they decide to bungee jump off the Eiffel Tower. During the jump Andy manages to save the life of a girl attempting suicide. However when he later tries to find her again he finds that she has something to hide. When he and his friends attend a party held by friends for hers they find they are trapped by werewolves. Andy gets bitten and becomes part of a world he wants no part of.

This is a belated sequel to the 1980's classic `American Werewolf in London' and indeed it tries very hard to be just like it - the corpse black humour, the dreams within dreams sequences etc. However the story is different as it introduces a wider werewolf conspiracy idea to the plot. It actually works quite well - it's not better than many other creature features but it works OK.

The main problem with it is that it is very much another teen horror movie - with a stupid rock soundtrack, valley girl style humour and dumb spectacle. It lacks the original's black humour and it isn't anywhere near as tense as `London'. The special effects are totally CGI and they don't work as well as `London's' - it all looks too computerised, and seeing everything takes the scare factor out of it.

In fairness when you look at it as a stand-alone film it's not so bad even though it doesn't stand out from other teenage horror movies. But a sequel to `London'? - sorry but it's not a great addition to that piece of work. Tom Everett Scott looks like he's stepped out of American Pie into a horror movie! He's OK but he doesn't compare with Dunne all those years ago. Julie Delphy is actually quite good - she doesn't have much of a character but she carries herself well. The other characters are either rough French skinheads or American teens.

Overall it's entertaining enough - but it pales terribly when compared to the original.