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. The girl turns out to be the daughter of the werewolf from 1981's "An American Werewolf in London" and her mother (from the earlier movie) and stepfather are trying to remedy her lycanthropic disease. She's somehow linked to a clandestine order of werewolves in the city who regularly lure people to raves in order to feast on 'em. There's also a subplot about a drug that allows werewolves to change at any time with no need for a full moon. Julie Bowen, Pierre Cosso and Thierry Lhermitte have peripheral roles. This is a stand-alone movie and so it's not necessary to see 1981 film first; I recommend catching it just for the first half. The Eiffel Tower sequence is particularly creative and thrilling. Despite what some say, Everett Scott makes for a quality main character, just as effective as David Naughton in the original, if not more. Like the first film, the movie expertly mixes horror with comedy. There are spooky scenes set in catacombs, dungeons and graveyards with the requisite full moon looming, all to a rockin' soundtrack. Unfortunately, the second half starts to mark time by becoming redundant and dull compared to the excellent set-up. 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. DIRECTOR: Anthony Waller. WRITERS: Tim Burns, Tom Stern & Waller.GRADE: B-

Made in 1997 by the director, Anthony Waller, who gave us the excellent Mute Witness (1994). This was his follow-up and is to be honest a pure rip-off of An American Werewolf In London (1981). Not the story itself but the way the bitten ones return and are talking to the werewolf. Made in 1997 a year were horror was back with the public. Scream was made one year earlier and done with stupid horrors. But Scream made a heavy foundation about going back to the use of latex and real effects. This is were this flick failed. A lot of the effects are done CGI. To go even further, it's all about the CGI effects. Of course some real effects are used too but it didn't stand it's time. There's no gore to see neither. Only the victims do have some scratches here and there. But there was another reason why I watched it again after all those years. Watching Modern Family, a comedy series I came aware of Julie Bowen and here she do act as Amy. 27 years she was here and looking sexy indeed as she still does nowadays but it shows that up till now she never did any nudity. She has a sex scene on a grave but the guy undresses Julie stays clothed. Not even a glimpse of her bra. The one who did show her boobs is French actress Julie Delpy as Serafine.I's more a love story with some funny situations, watch Julie whistling on street and see what happens. Clearly made for teens, updated with the music hyped back then (Bush remember). Ideal to watch with your teens and show them that a love story can be better then the Twilight saga. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 1/5

When is a sequel not really a sequel but still sucks like one? That would be when you take a minor horror classic like An American Werewolf in London and, 16 years later, remake it as a lame action-comedy called An American Werewolf in Paris. Truly, this is the sort of flick that leaves you in awe of how good the drugs must be out in Hollywood. Getting John Landis to do a sequel to his original 4 later? Anybody could come up with that idea. How doped out of your mind do you have to be to wait another 12 years and think of doing it without Landis? How does that suggestion even get out of your mouth before someone else interrupts with "That's stupid"?Andy McDermott (Tom Everett Scott) is a young man who, along with his nerdy friend Brad (Vince Vieluf) and his jock buddy Chris (Phil Buckman), has embarked on a "daredevil tour" of Europe. Andy is the sort of guy who believes in love rather than sex, which makes him just the sort of romantic to fall for a girl who tries to kill herself by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Andy saves her by bungee jumping after her (don't ask), only to wind up in the hospital with the one of the least medically-credible bandaged heads in cinema history. Andy and his friends track the girl down after she vanishes, only to discover that she's a werewolf and she's got some lycanthropic associates of her own, one of whom is the American-hating Claude (Pierre Cosso). Andy gets bit and becomes a werewolf, only to find that he's got to stop Claude and his gang from using a drug to transform into werewolves at will and massacring a bunch of boozed up Yanks.The first hour of so of An American Werewolf in Paris cycles through most of the same stuff as the superior first film, playing everything much more for laughs than anything else, and then the last half hour turns into some terrible buddy-cop comedy. Now dated CGI substitutes for the more shocking physical special effects of the original and the whole "haunted by the spirits of the dead" thing becomes a running gag. Julie Delpy does briefly take off her top, but Julie Bowen does not.The most descriptive comparison I can come up with is that, as An American Werewolf in London is to The Wolfman, An American Werewolf in Paris is to Abbot and Costello meet The Wolfman. There's about one honestly scary/unsettling scene in the entire motion picture and the rest of it is devoted to cheap jokes and dull humor, without anyone even close to as talented as either Abbot or Costello. Not that Tom Everett Scott or Julie Delpy are all that bad. They're simply stuck in an ill-conceived script helmed by a director who wants more to be funny than frightening, even though he's clearly better at the latter. By which I mean there are more moments intended to be scary that are staged effectively, but almost all of them are defanged by Anthony Waller's comedic emphasis.This movie is just not good at all. I hope the Hollywood drug culture has calmed down enough so we aren't subjected to An American Werewolf in Budapest in 2013.

The movie was not boring, it did not put me to sleep however, I found this movie to be way to funny, for it's own good, it didn't find anything scary at all.The werewolf did not look scary at all and the transformations scenes were so bad, it was funny. Some parts of the movie, I didn't understand, what was happen cause some of things didn't really make sense to me.The acting was descent, The ending was just silly and also really cheesy.I going to give this 4 out of 10