An American Werewolf in Paris

Plot synopsis:
Andy McDermott is a tourist seeing the sights of Paris with his friends Brad and Chris. When Serafine Pigot leaps off the Eiffel Tower just before Andy is about to bungee jump, he executes a mid-air rescue. She vanishes into the night, leaving Andy intrigued – unaware that she is the daughter of David Kessler and Alex Price, the couple seen 16 years earlier in the first film. That night, Andy, Chris, and Brad attend a night club called "Club de la Lune". The club's owner, Claude, is actually the leader of a werewolf society that uses the club as a way to lure in people (preferably tourists) to be killed. Serafine arrives, tells Andy to run away and transforms into a werewolf. The club owners transform into werewolves, as well, and butcher all the guests. Chris escapes and goes back to Serafine's house. Brad is killed by a werewolf, and Andy is bitten by another werewolf.
The next day, Andy wakes up at Serafine's house. He is still in shock, but Serafine allows him to feel her breasts to calm him down. She tells him he's transforming into a werewolf. This is interrupted by the sudden appearance of the ghost of Serafine's mother Alex. Andy jumps out the window in sheer panic and begins running away. Chris tries to get his attention, but Claude grabs him and holds his hand over his mouth and takes him to the basement. Soon, Brad's ghost appears to Andy and explains Andy's werewolf condition. For Andy to become normal again, he must eat the heart of the werewolf that bit him; and, for Brad's ghost to be at rest, the werewolf that killed him must be killed, too. After developing an appetite for raw meat, Andy hooks up with an American tourist named Amy (Julie Bowen), but he transforms and kills her. Andy also kills a cop who had been tailing him, suspecting Andy was involved in the Club de la Lune massacre. Andy is arrested but escapes. He begins to see Amy's ghost, as well; and she begins trying to kill him.
Claude and his henchmen ask Andy to join their society; but, to prove his loyalty, Andy must kill Chris. Serafine rescues Andy, explaining that her father prepared a drug to control werewolf transformations; but, instead, the drug forces werewolves to immediately transform into their beast form. As a result, she killed her mother and savaged her stepfather. Claude and the other werewolves raid Serafine's stepfather's lab and kill him, taking the drug to transform immediately.
Serafine and Andy learn of a Fourth of July party Claude has planned and infiltrate it. They help the partygoers escape; and Andy manages to kill the werewolf that ate Brad's heart, thus setting Brad free. The cops arrive, and a fight ensues. Andy and Serafine manage to kill many werewolves, with Serafine shifting to her beast form to fight when she runs out of ammunition. During a fight between Serafine and Claude, Andy shoots one of the wolves; but it turns out that he has shot Serafine. As she reverts to her human form she begs him to kill her but he is unable to and authorities who arrive on the scene assume that he is trying to kill her before escaping.
Claude makes his way onto a subway train, but he slips onto the tracks. A train slams into him, causing him to transform back to a human. He tries to take another dose of the drug, but Andy stops him. As they fight, Andy discovers that Claude is the werewolf that bit him. Claude tries to inject himself with the drug but accidentally injects Andy instead. Andy transforms into a werewolf, kills Claude and eats his heart, breaking the werewolf curse. Serafine is taken in an ambulance, but she begins to show signs of transforming. The EMT, thinking she is going into shock, administers adrenaline, which stops the transformation. The "cure" turned out to be a sedative, which triggered the change; and adrenaline has the opposite effect.
The film ends with Serafine and Andy celebrating their wedding atop the Statue of Liberty with Andy's pal Chris, who survives. The couple seem to be controlling the curse with a steady application of adrenaline-fueled activities. They bungee jump off it as the credits roll.
In an alternate ending, after Andy eats Claude's heart, Serafine has a vision of her stepfather in the back of an ambulance, explaining how he found a cure before his death. The new closing scene shows Serafine and Andy having a child, whose eyes shift to look like the werewolves'.

Tags: romantic, cult, murder

Review:
Andy gets bitten and becomes part of a world he wants no part of.This is a belated sequel to the 1980's classic `American Werewolf in London' and indeed it tries very hard to be just like it - the corpse black humour, the dreams within dreams sequences etc.
The special effects are totally CGI and they don't work as well as `London's' - it all looks too computerised, and seeing everything takes the scare factor out of it.In fairness when you look at it as a stand-alone film it's not so bad even though it doesn't stand out from other teenage horror movies.
Tom Everett Scott looks like he's stepped out of American Pie into a horror movie!
Some scenes were no doubt thrown in for comic relief, like "You can't just pop up and tell me what to do." I agree with a previous reviewer that people who slam this movie are comparing it too much to "An American Werewolf in London".
"An American Werewolf in Paris" is an excellent horror-comedy, in the great tradition of "The Lost Boys" and "Fright Night".
I admit, "An American Werewolf in Paris" is not really scary, but neither are "The Lost Boys" and "Fright Night," and those two movies seem to be highly regarded by horror fans.
I have mixed emotions about this film, especially as it compares to its forerunner,"An American Werewolf In London." That film had it's funny moments, it was still more of horror tale than anything else.
This updated version, now set in Paris, does not have that "edge" at all and simply isn't in the same class....but it does have some good things going for it that the first film did not have and overall it's still fun to watch.
This French actress has a face that is classic beauty, so the film got points for having her in it, and she looks great.When the horror starts, it can get scary and the special effects are good.
Thinking she's the girl of his dreams, little does he know what he's getting into.Paris tries to be a mixture of different genres: it wants to work as a horror film (to a mild extent), an action/adventure, and as a comedy.
If you want a great plot, terrific special effects, good humor and characters you can really care about, rent An American Werewolf in LONDON.
Even though the original movie had little more behind its story than "I'm a werewolf, oh no" that is even better than this stereotypical drivel about an anti-American punk who wants to "purify" the world from the country.
And to top it off, there are numerous mentions and depictions of eating/drinking someone's heart (including a scene in which Julie Delpy sticks a human heart in a blender - yummy), none of which are suitable for anyone with a stomach.As stated in the beginning, if you really want to see a good werewolf movie, the original 1983 film will suit you just fine.
Well, if you've seen this movie and you've never seen the original (American Werewolf in London), either because you've never heard of it, you didn't like this one and felt that the original must have been worse, or you just haven't gotten around to it, see the original.I know, this review is for this movie, not the original, but I still want to recommend that you see the original as it broke so much ground in the concept of a horror comedy, a genre that has so few movies in it that when a good one is made, it stands out.OK, now this movie here is still a fun movie and it is in the horror comedy genre, so it's got some work to do if it wants to appeal to any group of people out there.Yes, there are a bunch of people who love horror movies, and probably even more who love a good comedy, but it's difficult to appease both even when you stick with only one genre, let alone trying to find an audience for one that mixes two that are not typically put together.This movie has some pretty darn good special effects, an actual plot, pretty good acting overall, some interesting settings for their scenes, a little nudity, some blatant humor (things like site gags and one liners) and even some subtle humor that is more biting than outright humor, and it even has (for those who care) a little nudity.The action scenes are pretty dang fun if not a little gory, and a few surprises for those who enjoy those as well.See the original if you are only going to see one, but otherwise, see both..
Released in late 1997, "An American Werewolf in Paris" chronicles events in Paris when a trio of American daredevils (Tom Everett Scott, Phil Buckman & Vince Vieluf) encounters a suicidal young woman (Julie Delpy) at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
And the CGI werewolves are decidedly cartoony by today's standards; although I'm sure they were pretty state-of-the-art at the time.The movie runs 105 minutes and was shot in Paris with studio work done elsewhere.
For starters, it's important to note that An American Werewolf in London (AAWiL) will always have a special place in my heart as one of the first horror movies I remembers seeing on HBO as a kid.This movie lacked just about everything that AAWiL had: good acting, good special effects, a decent soundtrack, etc.
This is one of the worst movies ever with everything bad in it and characters who don't even know they are in a werewolf film..
This is an inoffensive comedy/horror yarn with plenty of bloody gore effects and alarming makeup, some sick humour, lots of werewolves and some cool action bits to keep it running smoothly along.On the plus side, the Paris setting makes for a nice change even if nothing much is made of it - aside from the expected Eiffel Tower shenanigans.
What I liked most were the mostly French supporting cast, who are actually pretty good in their roles and a lot more convincing than the American leads on whom the film focuses.
The dumb American characters are pretty unappealing too and the music far too "hip" for its own good.On the plus side, the film is liberal with its violence and bloodshed, which is always nice to see, and the werewolves themselves aren't as bad as I was led to believe.
While touring Paris with his friends, a young man saves a girl who turns out to be a werewolf, but she's isn't the only one!A name-only follow up to Landis's classic American Werewolf in London (1981) is a decent entertainer but really pales in comparison to Landis's film.
What made "American Werewolf in London" work was it was more of a serious film than a comedy, and the comedy was wonderfully dark, which added well to the horror element.
The action scenes were fantastic, the special effects were stunning, the performances were excellent, Serafine [Julie Deply]was beautiful, the dialogue was sharp and witty, the costumes looked nice, and the movie contained some of the best music I have ever heard.
TOM EVERETT SCOTT as Andy McDERMOTT and his buddy Brad are vacationing in Paris France and decide to go bungee jumping off the eiffel tower which is illegal and not a good idea.
I liked AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON better than this sequel but I still gave the movie a 10 out of 10.
However,if you take it on it's own it's a pretty good little werewolf flick which does have a few good ideas of it's own.The horror is slightly toned down here,despite having loads of werewolf attacks there is hardly any blood,although there is one great 'jump' involving the zombie mother of Julie Delpy's character.
It is all very fast-paced and resembles a comedy of errors in a way, but using horror tactics in it.The beginning of the movie is hilarious until Tom Everett Scott meets the werewolf girl and like, bad stuff starts happening.
Before you've time to work out if the constant mugging and lumpy dialogue is meant to be the stuff of comedy, a full-moon has hit and the brats are being chased by dreadful CGI werewolves down Parisian sewers.The script is disgustingly poor, the actors were made to make this film, they're horrible performances match the status of the movie.
The only real reason to bother with this exceedingly tedious alleged follow-up to John Landis' FX groundbreaker is to see the gorgeous Julie Delpy's breasts for a few frames.Unlike the original, the FX are mostly digital [and truly awful, which is odd, particularly as it was released by Disney's branch of pseudo-adult films, "Hollywood Pictures"]...The attempts at humor fall far short of Landis' original, but the story line is actually nearly as good.
Let me start by saying "London" still holds up after all these years and the transformation sequence is by any standard quite impressive, the film was funny, and scary, also a bit of gore....Now lets get to "Paris" its enjoyable, a few scars, lots of gore not as exciting or eerie as original but it does have a few laughs in what has become quite the fashion these days in films so maybe in that sense it was ahead of it's time, the transformations al'a CGI while good for the technology of its time are nowhere near as impressive as the original.
I gave this movie a 7 because I have to admit it was enjoyable, I laughed a lot and found Tom Everett Scott to be so silly that at first I wanted to dislike his performance only to end up liking it...go figure...Julie Delpy was competent as was the direction it's the script that lacked a bit of shine & finesse.
Don't get me wrong, 'American Werewolf In London' is a superior film, but 'American Remake In Paris' is a decent movie as well.First off, the only real similarities are the TITLE, 2 American BACKPACKERS, and WEREWOLVES.
Now I'm getting a little off the beaten path...An American Werewolf In Paris is a good attempt at re-creating a classic, but it will never surpass the original, ever.
Having seen the original many times (An American werewolf in London), I tried not to compare the two, and think this is the reason I enjoyed it.
This movie wasn't bad to me , maybe because I like werewolf movies, and the werewolves looked fine to me , not as good as werewolf in London but it's worth watching..
I honestly didn't like this one as much as the original American werewolf movie.
I think that this movie was a lot of fun to watch and if you like good special effects and some pretty cool fight scenes then I suggest you check it out.
"An American Werewolf in Paris" is one of the worst werewolf movies ever made.The intro is actually pretty good,but after it the film goes quickly downhill.The direction is horrible and the characters are even worse.No suspense,no scares,just huge load of rubbish.Generally the special effects are okay,but creators of this garbage put an overdose of them into the plot.I don't know why so many people like this sorry piece of crap.Personally I like horror movies to be scary and disturbing.This one isn't even gory,so don't bother with it.Oh,and these terrible CGI werewolves are some of the fakest I have ever seen.Avoid "An American Werewolf in Paris" like the plague.Not recommended..
It's really a pity when a movie has a true potential and completely botches the job.It's supposed to be the remake of a rather good horror film of the eighties' John Landis.Apart from the city ,there are some changes:first of all,the heroine Julie Delpy -whose strange face could have been ideal if she had been given a good directing- is one of "them" whereas nurse played by Jenny Agutter in the first version was not;there are three young American guys instead of two.One should add that the movie borrows from other works such as "interview with a vampire" and even monster movies à la "King Kong" (sequence in the metro).It does not compare favorably with Landis' s work though.And however things start under favorable auspices :the cast and credits,over a Notre-Dame de Paris under an ominous sky ,complete with gargoyles is rather impressive;then an excellent sequence on the Eiffel Tower and a welcome nod to "Cinderella".Afterward,it's downhill.It' s really a shame that the director could not take advantage of the extraordinary location he had at his disposal: the Père Lachaise graveyard and mainly Paris sewers which had already inspired comic strip creator Edgar P.Jacobs for one of his Blake and Mortimer episodes "l'affaire du collier".One could have had a subterranean pleasure bonanza but none of these subterranean scenes can sustain any suspense ,which takes the biscuit all the same.The script , which the director seems at odds with,is a jumble which makes up for the paucity of ideas with a ton of hackneyed special effects:the movie resembles a giant video clip,with atrocious music at that;when you think that Landis's score included such gems as John Fogerty's "bad moon rising" ,Van Morrison's "Moondance" and "werewolf of London" by the sadly missed Warren Zevon !.
Poor Sequel, Remake or Whatever It Is. American Werewolf in Paris, An (1997) * 1/2 (out of 4) An American (Tom Everett Scott) saves a Parisian (Julie Delpy) from suicide and then falls in love with her not knowing she's a werewolf.
This really doesn't have any connections to AN American WEREWOLF IN London outside this being nothing more than a remake but I even have a hard time calling it a remake because for the most part this film comes off as a romantic comedy about an American in Paris trying to get over his nerves to get the girl he likes.
If you loved "An American werewolf in London" you will probably hate it.If it wasn't cashing in on the name and success of its predecessor it could have been an enjoyably dumb monster movie.
It steals all of the clever plot ideas from American werewolf and drops them into a new city, hoping that some cool Paris scenery will distract you from a poorly told story.Eiffel tower, the Seine, generic Gothic church, the Metro.Ugh.If you think that a dog, um, sexed to death is funny, it's a film for you.Mind you, the brief scene where they (ahem, briefly) try to ignite a lighter in the tunnels is worth watching..
I was a fan of the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON movie and so was curious whether a 16-year later sequel could be done with French language and local re-cast major, supporting, and minor characters.
All in all a great movie.I failed to see where the plot coincided with the London saga, supposedly the female werewolf in this is the offspring from the original American, but I must have missed the scene that links this..
It think this is purely because of the fact that 'American Werewolf in London, 1981' is a classic 80s horror.
They don't make them like those old 80s horrors, the comic edge the 80s gave it still does it for me (The Lost Boys, 1987).If 'American Werewolf in London, 1981' didn't exist I think I could see myself giving this film a 8 out of 10, but in light of its predecessor I am having to give it 6 out of 10!.
To the director who wants to attempt "An American Werewolf 3": why don't you try a new itinerary for the werewolf where some people don't know about it, London, Paris these are all common places for them like they all live there you know, it wouldn't be good also if the title of the movie would be "An American Werewolf in America" right?
I do not know why some readers compares this movie with the masterpiece 'An American Werewolf in London'.
It has an awful 'made-for-tv' kind of look, completely with the standard camera-work and editing.Still the humor makes this movie somewhat fun to watch but it simply ain't enough to prevent this movie from being an disappointing and bad late sequel to the 1981 movie "An American Werewolf in London" directed by the obviously more talented director John Landis.
But An American Werewolf in Paris has none or little of the charm, heart and atmosphere that made London so good.
The beginning was promising ,having a few imaginative scenes and quite terrifying as well.However after a few minutes the film starts losing its grip on the viewer.Basically it's the male actors' fault.They are portrayed as silly American middle class students full of immaturity and silly,lackluster jokes.The main male character,Tom Everett Scott,could be satisfying but I think he should have been made to look less silly and out of place as many a time he is.He has his moments though.On the other hand,Julie Delpy,is much more convincing and interesting as a character and apart from her talent she's also very sexy.So overall,it's not a great movie but it's not too bad to watch in order to relax on a weekday night either..
This films sounds like a terrible sequel of the rather good film 'An American Werewolf in London.' And it is, almost.
It's very hard to compare this movie with American Werewolf in London.There, the first-time seen transformation effects, the plot and the acting were very satisfying, and the movie was a classic of contemporary horror.
It's very hard to compare this movie with American Werewolf in London.There, the first-time seen transformation effects, the plot and the acting were very satisfying, and the movie was a classic of contemporary horror.
Critics of this movie are disappointed it didn't live up as a true sequel of their classic: American Werewolf in London.
For the most part, he has good tastes in movies so I figured if I enjoyed the first Werewolf in London, why not see the sequel?