Teen Wolf & Teen Wolf Too
by Christopher Leitch, Rod Daniel
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Actor: Jason Bateman, John Astin, Kim Darby, Michael J. Fox, Paul SandDirector: Christopher Leitch, Rod Daniel
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: George W. Perkins
Producer: John Strong
Producer: Kent Bateman
Writer: Jeph Loeb
Writer: Matthew Weisman
Writer: Tim Kring
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 186 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Teen Wolf & Teen Wolf Too
DVD Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Teen Wolf is a classic. I only wanted part 1 but the double dvd disc is the cheapest I could find but it was worth it.DVD Review: Two movies about RACISM...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Teen Wolf, but don't like Teen Wolf 2, you can always scratch one
side of the dvd until that side is no longer operable. That way, you don't
have to watch Teen Wolf 2 again, or for the first time. Having seen both, I
like the first better because Basketball injuries, generally speaking, are not
fatal. Boxing is a brutal "sport".
These two movies deal with racism, that is racism with
respect to physical appearance, rather than behaviour. The Wolf
represents the African American experience: People don't love him, the
basketball player or the boxer, they just want to USE him, not seeing the
person.
I like 'TW' better than 'TW too'. Key scenes in TW are for example, when the
theatre coach tells him that nobody wants to see him on stage, they just want
to see the wolf. I think African American directors and actors, such as Spike
Lee and Robert Townsend can relate to that remark. In another scene, a white
girl tells him that she already has a boyfriend, and he is confused and hurt
because she acted otherwise when she was with him, in private. She does not
want to go to the dance with him. At the end of the film, when he is not
covered by the Wolf, he rejects her, the racist. As if she failed a test. The
crowd of spectators, the coach, and the educators, liked him so long as he
was winning basketball games, but when he wanted to be liked for himself,
he felt invisible, rejected, by many, save by the few who really knew him,
having grown up with him. His network of family and friends is limited
because of systemic discrimination against werewolves. This is a
remarkable movie. This movie also talks about how you should not let
fame cloud your reasoning processes. Why do they like you? Because of
what you can give them? Or something else? The money perhaps? His
agent Stiles repented at the end of that film, I think.
My favourite scene in Teen Wolf is perhaps when he is asked by
his friends to rob the liquor store. He throws the gun away,
and says, "I'll just see if he accepts the cash instead". How
would you feel if you were refused service on the basis of
physical appearance ("picture ID")?
The second film, Teen Wolf Too, also deals with the subject of racism, but
this film seems to be more about racism as it applies to gender, rather than
skin colour. He is depressed that people treat him like a "manimal", calling
him a dog. There is one scene where the boxing referee, a female in a
tuxedo helps another female with her robe, who then walks
around the ring in her bathing suit holding a sign. Boxing is brutal,
compared to a beauty pageant. Perhaps the most loving thing his
girlfriend could have said to him was, "Maybe college is not for you",
because he was getting hurt, abused, there "in the ring". (It is
actually in the shape of a square.)
Ever see Rodan's sculpture, The Thinker?
"No pain, no gain" may not always be true.
Consider the beauty of holiness. Consider that which is not visible.
Consider, self-respect.
People objectify, or ridicule the Wolf, because he can do things that
they cannot, and it disturbs them. But why should you have to deny
the Wolf in order to feel loved? Why deny your "negritude", your
"mojo"? The Wolf has super powers. It is not a medical condition
which needs to be treated.
DVD Review: How to be a teen wolf twice
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a pairing of two rather unique movies on a dual-side DVD, the original Teen Wolf staring Michael J. Fox and its less-successful sequel, Teen Wolf Too with Jason Bateman. The first film deals with the struggles of Scott Howard, a high school student fed up with being average, until he discovers he's inherited a fantastic gift; moments of heightened emotional state transform him into The Wolf. The real problem is how he lets it affect his social life, his academic life and his athletic life . . . and what he has to do to overcome the problem.
Teen Wolf Too is the lesser-known story of a cousin named Todd Howard trying to cope with the pressures of being a college freshman, tied in with an unexpected athletic responsibility (as a boxer) and the burden of living up to the events of the previous story. He thinks he didn't receive the capacity to turn into a wolf the way Scott did, and he's completely surprised to discover that The Wolf is a part of him. Not only does being the wolf help Todd to excel in the ring, but he gets stuck up and allows the same things to happen to himself that happened to Scott.
When I first saw this DVD package, I didn't even know about Teen Wolf Too. When I watched Too, I did enjoy it a good deal. At the same time, I have to admit to knowing what prevented it from being more commercially successful. People had already seen much of that film's turns of events in the original (down to Jason Bateman's voice turning demonic in the registrar's office, something which happened with Fox). One key element that differs from the original film is that Todd Howard's biology professor is highly supportive of Todd, even when his performance plummets. Her secret is revealed to the dean near the end of the film - that The Wolf is also a part of her.
Another difference is that, when the original was produced, the songs woven into the score were all composed by film scorer Miles Goodman and lyricist Douglas Brayfield (save the Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA"). Teen Wolf Too depended more heavily on non-original music than on its own score.
The significance of these two films being packaged together lies largely in the show, Family Ties, in which Jason Bateman's older sister, Justine starred as one of Michael J. Fox' sisters. Jason was also a cast member of Little House on the Prairie at the close of Season 7 and during all Season 8; boss and star Michael Landon also starred in I was a Teenage Werewolf in 1957. (In addition, five years previous to the original Teen Wolf, Michael J Fox had debuted in the Disney film Midnight Madness with David Naughton, who reached worldwide acclaim in An American Werewolf in London during 1981.)
DVD Review: What are you looking at, dicknose?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best movies of all time.
I could care less if Teen Wolf Too is on side 2 of this DVD. I'll never watch it; it should have never existed. They should have used that space for DVD extras, or a widescreen version.
DVD Review: classic fun
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been looking for the MJFox version for my grandson because he LOVES sports and this one is such fun
Description of Teen Wolf & Teen Wolf Too
TEEN WOLF TEEN WOLF TOOTeen Wolf is a flip-flop of the horrorific I Was a Teenage Werewolf story: this time, lycanthropy makes the afflicted high-schooler a big man on campus. An otherwise routine teen comedy, this one works because of the customary bounce of Michael J. Fox, in one of his first leading roles (it was shot before Back to the Future but released in that blockbuster's wake, and cashed in nicely). Although his werewolf makeup makes him look more like Bigfoot than Lon Chaney, Jr., Fox manages to convey his peppy personality even under all that hair. Teen Wolf Too, however, is not even bearable. Here Fox is replaced by Jason Bateman, who finds that his wolfish inclination helps him become the big dog on the college boxing team. The sole bright spot is veteran actor Paul Sand as the boxing coach. The rest is howlingly unfunny. - -Robert Horton
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