So this one is going to hurt. Get your wolfsbane and silver bullets ready because we're about to dive into the remake of the 1941 classic film: The Wolfman.
This 2010 version stars Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, and Anthony Hopkins. You may also recognize the elf in charge of Rivendale from The Lord of the Rings and that guy with the glasses from The Matrix (Hugo Weaving) as the pesky inspector from Scotland Yard.
The story is similar to the original film albeit a little more boring. I'm not really sure what possessed any of these actors to be in this movie. The only one who seemed to even realize she was in a movie was Emily Blunt. That being said, one actor actually trying in a movie does not equal a whole...or something like that. That's not to say she was actually good, just that she was aware that movie was being made.
Del Toro seemed to be in constant drug induced state, Weaving just wanted a pint of bitters, and I'm fairly certain that the cameras were just following Hopkins around in "a day in the life" style.
Basically the prodigal son returns home and gets bitten by a werewolf of unknown origin. Del Toro macks on his dead brother's fiance (Blunt) while he and his father exchange meaningful glances. Weaving is sent in to investigate the town's disturbances and the villagers turn into a mindless mob. Really riveting and innovating stuff here people.
This movie took out most of the interesting parts of the original about wolfsbane and the gypsies and replaced it with some slightly disturbing scenes in an asylum which I guess were supposed to solidify the mental torture that Hopkins (the actor not his character) has inflicted upon his son over the years. The otherworldly elements were mostly ignored except for a particularly sweet montage in which Blunt furiously searches for a cure in the lycanthropy books she just happens to have lying around her antique shop? I mean who among doesn't have one or two lycanthropy coffee table books?
Spoiler Alert!!!!!: Hopkins (the person not the character) is a werewolf!! He killed his youngest son and bit Del Toro. I don't know if you get the symbolism here so I'll break it down. The son is destined to walk in his father's footsteps/the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The movie culminates in a huge fight scene between Del Toro and Hopkins. They do the traditional werewolf in mid-air clash. I'm not sure where that tradition came from. Probably archive footage of werewolves I guess because all filmmakers seem pretty damn sure that's how a werewolf battle would go down. Both father and son die, but not before Weaving gets bit by one of them. (Seriously all the guy wanted to do was go down to the pub...damn) Do I smell the wafting aroma of a sequel?????
All in all this movie was pretty forgettable. I guess the updated effects were alright. I liked that they kept the original wolf/man style instead of the just wolf thing that Twilight seems to have taken to. When I think of a wolfman I think of a guy...that looks like a wolf, preferably wearing pin stripped pants and a white button down shirt (I would also have accepted a basketball uniform complete with sweat bands)
The minx says: A yawn of a movie. If you want to see werewolves check out the original from 1941 or the teen wolf series...a werewolf on the basketball court...freaking hilarious!
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