An enjoyable enough flick that was actually free of quite a few of the usual Burton hallmarks (not a black and white stripe in sight!), but it felt more of a tribute than it should have to the long forgotten series on which it was based.
There are a few real "What the?" moments near the end which are no doubt nods to the source material, of which Burton and Depp are huge fans, but which are completely lost on the rest of us.
(Was lycanthropy mentioned earlier in the film? If it was; I missed it! - That's no spoiler BTW. It has NO relevance to the rest of the film which is what makes its inclusion so baffling.)
It's also the first film in which Eva Green actually looks like the bombshell everyone's been claiming her to be since Casino Royale.
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Listening to: Booming Orchestral Scores
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Reading: Avenging Spiderman (Wait....is that a KittyHulk?!)
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Watching: Legend of Korra
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Playing: Minecraft (cannot.....escape....)
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Eating: Crap.
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Drinking: Water.
Third time.
Yup.
Still awesome. ^_^
I grew up with the revamped version from the early 90's and it got cancelled before the werewolf parts were introduced. I only saw a handful of episodes of the original series when I was older and none of them had any mention of them. I didn't know werewolves were in the plot until I was talking to my husband's mother about the movie and she says "Oh sweetie, it's all vampires, witches, time travel AND werewolves".
I took my mom to see it today and she's seen ALL of the original series and remembers werewolves but is unsure if Caroline was ever one at all; of course it's not like it's hard to look up. It was funny nonetheless; Chloe was great.
I was looking forward to the cameos of the original actors. Too bad they couldn't work in a quick memorial for Jonathan Frid like they did for Dan Curtis.
Not sure whether I'll be able to see this in theaters, but I'm for sure going to get it on DVD.