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Simply Perfect

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Back in late 2004, I saw the trailer for a movie called Cursed and I thought it would be interesting to see Christina Ricci headline a horror film. Eventually I watched it some years later. I quickly forgot about it afterwards...until...now. I think that Jesse Eisenberg is the only one worthwhile in this movie because while watching his performance, he seems to be in on the joke and he is the only one from the cast that still makes decent movies in my opinion. So many things I was thinking about during this movie like remembering when Christina Ricci was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Buffalo '66, and how she could reduce to something so low- grade such as this. Those films were basically back-to-back in the late nineties. Now she has done only two notable movies within the past fifteen years, in my opinion. And thinking about the filmography of Wes Craven. Wasn't he at one point considered a groundbreaking filmmaker in the 70's with the original Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes? He seemed to reinvigorate himself with 1996's Scream and he gets credit for 1999's Music of the Heart. I have not seen the latter, but I know it is a step outside the genre he usually does. It seems he lost any creativity he may have had after that point. Something I have noticed in many of his movies is that there are a lot of dialogue scenes and dramatic, intense confrontations that take place in a suburban house. Perhaps it is something that became his trademark.

This one has it's moments of being really good then slumps and drags for awhile, picks back up again, then drags, then picks back up. It's sorta a roller-coaster ride film for me.It is a comedy-horror and not everyone gets "comedy-horror". I found some of the comedy lame while some of it I laughed out loud. I think this one would have been much better as a pure horror myself because the werewolf is great! This is a film where the reviews are about equally split - some love it, some hated it. Like any film you should watch it to find out if it suits your taste.5/10

A somewhat underrated and much-maligned movie that, yes, had a very troubled (cursed?) production. But I think if you enjoy other movies written by Kevin Williamson, like The Faculty and I Know What You Did Last Summer, you'll probably like this more than others who were expecting something different. If you're a Wes Craven fan hoping for a scary movie, then yeah you'll probably hate this. As a horror movie, it's not impressive. I was never scared for one second. The CGI effects for the werewolves are not the greatest. But as one of those non-scary movies with a horror backdrop where the young pretty people all say snappy lines and make pop culture references, it's entertaining enough. I guess it comes down to expectations. I don't think it's close to the best either Craven or Williamson has done but it's not the total stinker people make it out to be. One review I read referred to it as "disappointingly routine" and I think that's a fair criticism for it. There's nothing really new here but, in my view, that doesn't stop the movie from being enjoyable in its way. I have seen it a few times since its initial release (where I was in a theater opening weekend to see it) and each time I've found it entertaining. Try and put preconceived notions aside and give it a fair shot. It won't likely become one of your favorite werewolf movies but there's a good chance you'll walk away thinking this is better than its reputation suggests.

Made even more painful by the fact that the movie was made by the same master minds who brought us (up to that point) the Scream Trilogy. Thank you Wes Craven for attempting a werewolf movie in a time were the horror of this classic monster seems to be going out of Fashion. It's too bad that his choice was to play down the horror. Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson seem to be cashing in on the Scream franchise with another horror film that is more about the satire than about the fright. In one of his early roles, Jessie Esenberg plays a geek who got bit by a werewolf and rather than be the least bit frighten by the whole thing he just does the research needed to be the best wolf he can be.I'll admit that part I did like. What I found strange was Christina Ricci plays his older sister also bitten by the wolf and with this power, still ended up being a helpless victim. What's worse is that her character is a carbon copy of Scream's Sydney Prescott. In fact, the whole story has a lot of elements of Scream in it as the protagonist need to figure out who the alpha dog is that's been killing young girls in the Hollywood hills. This and many other attempts of the master of horror milking his last cash cow, lowers the coolness of the film.I miss the days of American Werewolf in London and the Howling where you could be more frighten of this monster, and I really hoped this movie could do more to bring it back, but it didn't.