German director Katja Von Garnier's supernatural fantasy for teenage girls who like their werewolves buff and hairless is deeply silly and vaguely sexy, in an oddly chaste look-but-don't-touch kind of way.
Though based on Annette Curtis Klause's popular young-adult tale about a 16-year-old werewolf coming of age in a sleepy Maryland suburb, prefab genre screenwriters Ehren Kruger and Christopher Langdon systematically defanged the novel's thorny insights into adolescent turmoil, faulty parenting, virulent peer pressure and the causal cruelty of dreamy boys. What's left when they're done is a not very interesting variation on Romeo and Juliet in which...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins