This is a good-natured spoof of adolescent insecurities and image-consciousness in school, not Gothic shocks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2024

Rather than a wolf in sheep's clothing, Teen Wolf is basically a standard 80s teen flick in werewolf's clothing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2021

To his credit, director Rod Daniel has crafted an amiable teen film and gets a pleasing performance from Fox in the title role. Yet Teen Wolf, especially in the basketball sequences, loses its dramatic dribble.

| Sep 3, 2020

The movie plods towards a predictable ending and misses all sorts of chances to be funny.

| Mar 26, 2019

The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous--have you ever seen a wolf break dance?--and a good deal of fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2019

Fox somehow survives on the sheer force of a pleasant screen presence, but those who remember The Shaggy Dog ought to stay away.

| Mar 26, 2019

If in Back to the Future the problem is solved by rewriting family history and transforming the father into a winner, here the solution is much more fantastic, although less fun. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 26, 2019

As the unfortunate teenager, the ever-engaging Michael J Fox is doing what he does best - turning a loser into a winner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2019

This combination of wolf and Fox is well-intentioned, harmless fun, and it's got I Was a Teenage Werewolf, the lycanthropic skeleton in Michael Landon's closet, beat by a mile.

| Mar 26, 2019

Fox is enormously likable here, but the gimmickry of the werewolf transformation and Fox's lupine existence is just that - a gimmick, a wholly artificial contrivance that intrudes on the character.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2019

Determinedly bland and unoriginal.

| Mar 26, 2019

The tail, sorry, tale, climaxes with a very well choreographed basketball game as the ghoul-in-school fights to go straight and avoid a lifetime of biting the mailman and dodging silver bullets.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

The idea that being a werewolf is something certain teens have to learn to live with like acne is a pretty novel concept to begin with. The problem is that Teen Wolf doesn't know where to go from there.

| Mar 21, 2019

It's often ridiculous, and filled with '80s cheese, but Teen Wolf does harbor some poignant coming-of-age metaphors and decent helping of intentional, and unintentional, comedy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 16, 2011

Despite the inexcusable lack of a DeLorean, Teen Wolf is a modest, digestible comedy, guided by a perfectly itchy Fox performance as the titular beast.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 18, 2011

Lightweight item is innocuous and well-intentioned but terribly feeble, another example of a decent idea yielding the least imaginative results conceivable.

| Mar 26, 2009

Clean-cut teenagers, a small town hardware store, a dark secret. But Blue Velvet this is not.

| Jun 24, 2006

corny but endearing

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2005