Review – Blood and Chocolate

These werewolves are almost boring enough to be vampires. That’s no big surprise, given that this was produced by the same folks that created Underworld. The art-direction-intensive, jump-cutty goth crap that worked okay for bloodsuckers and then only just sorta worked for the witches in The Covenant works not at all for werewolves. This production also falls into the same trap that snagged The Wolfen many years ago: actual wolves – especially if they aren’t special-effected up in some way – are way too cute to make menacing monsters. The case isn’t helped any by the use of the lamest transformation sequences of all time. I’ve griped in the past about the extended man-into-beast effects parades that stop stories dead, but even that would have been better than the twinkle-intensive soft fade leap that does the trick here. Are these savage, flesh-tearing beasts or extras from Barbie Fairytopia? Mildly amusing