TEEN WOLF is the most joyous movie ever made about a werewolf who can dunk a basketball. Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) is a teenager with problems. He has a bad outside hook shot, he’s allergic to eggs, and he has a $6 haircut. But things get much more complicated when Scott “wolfs out” after a night of partying. Like I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF before it and GINGER SNAPS after, TEEN WOLF equates lycanthropy with puberty to create a revisionist take on classic werewolf tropes. But it’s also a sweet and sincere coming of age comedy, with righteous make-up effects, a killer synth-pop score, and a character named “Styles” who is basically Bill Murray. In the words of Teen Wolf himself: “Give Me. A Keg. Of Beer.”
TEEN WOLF TOO was released two-years-later, this time starring that kid from SILVER SPOONS in his feature film debut (Jason Batemen - he went on to make a few more things) as Todd - the cousin of Fox's Scott Howard from the first film. This time it's boxing instead of basketball, when Todd is accepted to a university on a full athletic scholarship with the hope that the werewolf genes run in the family to help the school's struggling boxing team.
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