If you wanted a 20 something year old to play a teenager in the 80s you turned to Michael J Fox (or maybe Ralph Macchio). Fresh with his hit as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, he continues the teen theme here, playing Scott Howard, aka Teen Wolf, in this typical 80s high school comedy. The title pretty much gives away the plot of the film: teenager realises he has werewolf capabilities. That’s it. Oh, and he plays basketball. It is all rather predictable, but it is entertaining nevertheless. Standing out is Jay Tarses as Coach Finstock, who has the best lines and delivers them with dead pan restraint, “There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.” Can’t go wrong with that.
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