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Much love was lavished on the original in an earlier thread, all of it (far as I'm concerned) deserved. The sequel is just now available in the US -- I presume it's been available in Canada, though I dunno if it's made its way to the UK yet.
Basically, if you haven't seen it, it's Brigitte shooting up wolfsbane and trying not to turn into a werewolf. Yeah, this pretty much flies in the face of the original, wherein the slightest tap from a syringe full of the stuff seemed to instantly remedy lycanthropy, but...whatever. All goes well enough (which is surprising, since -- serious logic problem number one -- Brigitte, who is apparently a fugitive after leaving behind a demolished house and at least one corpse, USES HER REAL NAME everywhere she goes, must hold down some kind of job as she's lived in the same place long enough to rack up twenty bucks' worth of library fines, and appears to have an apartment...all without attracting the attention of the authorities, or even leaving any paper trail whatsoever beyond her afore-mentioned library account), until she is mistaken for a passed-out junkie on the street and immediately placed in a drug treatment facility that is essentially a prison...where, of course, she can no longer shoot up.
Anyhow, I saw it *very* late Friday night -- i.e., late enough that I kinda wanna watch it again before I set an opinion in stone -- and found it kind of a mixed bag...I was pleased that the original Brigitte was kept (I was a little scared they'd replace her with an actress you'd be more likely to find on the cover of Maxim) and I was overjoyed that they actually spent money on this one, unlike the first (like, here we *see* a werewolf in almost full light and it sort of almost doesn't look that stupid). Brigitte's protege, a twelve-or-so-year-old girl named Ghost who is obsessed with horror comics and gothy poetry and is clearly a profoundly disturbed little lady, pretty much steals the movie. The direction and cinematography are much slicker and "edgier" than the original, complete with the prerequisite Fincher-style opening credit sequence; since that sequence is comprised of close-ups of a nude young woman shaving hair from parts of her body where it's just not supposed to grow, though, it's hard to call it...um...cliche.
Storywise, however, there are monstrous, appalling logic problems throughout, some of which can perhaps be explained away by the differences between the Canadian health system and hospitals in the US. A drug addict found bloody and unconscious on the streets of a major American city is going to have to fight her way *into* a state-sponsored rehab program; unless her wealthy parents have placed her there, she sure as hell isn't going to have to try and fight her way out of one. Not to mention that, even in the reality of this movie, which (even leaving out the werewolves) bears little resemblance to any reality with which I am familiar, the authorities can only (I guess) hold Brigitte because she's (I guess) under eighteen, which they can't establish because they've said she has no ID...which itself doesn't make very much sense if she's had any kind of legal employment at all, which she kinda would have had to in order to, y'know, get an apartment...and anyway, since she's USING HER REAL NAME, it doesn't seem like it'd be real difficult to find her in the system...ye gods.
Anyway, I have rambled enough. Anybody else seen this? |
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