
Meet Scott Howard, a struggling high school student with problems. He is on a lackluster basketball team with a lame duck coach, he is having problems getting noticed by the prettiest girl in his school, Pamela Wells (who already has a boyfriend who wants to ruin Scott's life named Mick McAllister). But in the middle of it all, he feels an effects of a dog whistle and he itches everywhere and even discovers that his nails are longer and sharp. When he came home from a party, ... (Full plot summary below)
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Meet Scott Howard, a struggling high school student with problems. He is on a lackluster basketball team with a lame duck coach, he is having problems getting noticed by the prettiest girl in his school, Pamela Wells (who already has a boyfriend who wants to ruin Scott's life named Mick McAllister). But in the middle of it all, he feels an effects of a dog whistle and he itches everywhere and even discovers that his nails are longer and sharp. When he came home from a party, he discovers his new problem. He is a half human-wolf hybrid. He tries to keep this a secret, but during a basketball game the secret comes out and it helped Scott to turn his life around, the basketball team starts to become a contender for the state championships. He became very popular, and he was discovered by Pamela, and begin to go out with each other (despite that Pamela is still going out with Mick). However, Scott's father warns him about turning into the wolf out of anger. Scott must watch his anger as he can still win Pamela's heart and the High School Basketball State Championship game.
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorThe anecdotal happenings in the film are insignificant, because in theme Teen Wolf offers an unparalleled analysis of puberty, adolescence, and the all-to-familiar search for popularity in teenage film. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfDespite the inexcusable lack of a DeLorean, Teen Wolf is a modest, digestible comedy, guided by a perfectly itchy Fox performance as the titular beast. |
| IGN DVDR. L. ShafferIt's often ridiculous, and filled with '80s cheese, but Teen Wolf does harbor some poignant coming-of-age metaphors and decent helping of intentional, and unintentional, comedy. |
| IGN DVDR.L. ShafferIt's often ridiculous, and filled with '80s cheese, but Teen Wolf does harbor some poignant coming-of-age metaphors and decent helping of intentional, and unintentional, comedy. |
| Chicago TribuneRick KoganTeen Wolf is a clever and inventive film, a soft and contemporary retelling of the familiar werewolf tale. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonRather than a wolf in sheep's clothing, Teen Wolf is basically a standard 80s teen flick in werewolf's clothing. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordFor a film that's so innocuous, Teen Wolf is aggressively boring. |
| User ReviewSara TRe-watched after 26 years and realized what a great film this still is! Of course I loved it at 13 because I was deeply in love with MJF. But 26 years later, this movie is still captivating and extremely clever. For example, this kid is changing into a werewolf and he's standing in the bathroom freaking out with his Dad outside the door demanding to know what's going on, and the kid is probably praying his Dad is thinking he's masturbating instead of turning into a werewolf, and after his Dad insists he open the door, the kid does and there's his Dad standing there and he's a wolf, too. So classic! And what about Stiles? Whoever heard of a kid like that in highschool? I love that they made a very strangely dressed, very weird kid into the school slicko hustler type, who has a heart of gold, not to mention a very strange girlfriend. My only complaint is about the scene in the closet at the party. Though Boof is a great gal, there needs to be a moment in the film that effectively introduces her as a romantic figure in Scott's mind. When that moment comes in the closet, they make out, and then Scott gets too physical and Boof slaps him. But if they'd shot it as a moment when Scott got really turned on and wanted more, and then Stiles opens the door and Boof walks away with a wink of satisfaction, and you see Scott wanting more. That would've been great. And you still could've had her walk away with her shirt ripped. Then it would make sense that Scott finally sees her as a girlfriend at the end. There's so many great things about this movie, and MJF is most of the reason it's great, although the performances by the Dad, Stiles, their younger friend, and Chubby are fantastic and endearing and make me happy. And Pam is so deliciously awful after the night of bowling. She plays a great antagonist; way out at the other end of the good-person spectrum. I love this movie! Super clever! Super MJF! |
| User ReviewBert SScott Howard is the unsung antihero of the 1980s. Hands down one of the greatest teenage coming of age movies of all time. |
| User ReviewDanielle JIt's a love or hate movie, one of my favorite 80s movies! |