We’re wrapping this week up with a new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and with this one we’re looking back at one of the most maligned sequels ever made: the 1997 release An American Werewolf in Paris (watch it Here). How did this follow-up to An American Werewolf in London go so wrong? Watch the video embedded above to find out!
Directed by Mute Witness‘s Anthony Waller, who also wrote the screenplay with Tim Burns and Tom Stern, An American Werewolf in Paris has the following synopsis: A group of carousing American tourists is taking in the cultural landmarks of Paris when a chance encounter results in sightseer Andy McDermott saving the life of Parisian Serafine Pigot. While on a date at a nightclub with Serafine, Andy is suddenly attacked and bitten by a werewolf. The next day he discovers that Serafine is also a lycanthrope,...
Directed by Mute Witness‘s Anthony Waller, who also wrote the screenplay with Tim Burns and Tom Stern, An American Werewolf in Paris has the following synopsis: A group of carousing American tourists is taking in the cultural landmarks of Paris when a chance encounter results in sightseer Andy McDermott saving the life of Parisian Serafine Pigot. While on a date at a nightclub with Serafine, Andy is suddenly attacked and bitten by a werewolf. The next day he discovers that Serafine is also a lycanthrope,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Film review: 'The Ice Rink'
It used to be said during the glory days of foreign cinema that American audiences had an exaggerated sense of their quality because only the cream of the crop arrived on U.S. shores. It's a sad commentary on today's mediocre crop of international films that "The Ice Rink" has been picked up for domestic theatrical consumption.
This satire of filmmaking, a sort of "Day for Night" wannabe set largely at an ice rink, is so slight that it's a wonder that the print survived the trans-Atlantic crossing.
Written and directed by novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint, the film concerns the misbegotten efforts of a French director (Tom Novembre) to film a love story set in the world of hockey. His efforts are undermined by a cast who largely don't speak French, including a boorish American movie star (Bruce Campbell of the "Evil Dead" series) and an entire team of Lithuanian hockey players.
His other problems include a starlet (Dolores Chaplin, who is indeed Charlie's granddaughter) who immediately begins a disruptive affair with her co-star; a crew who don't know enough to shut off their bright lights, with the result that the ice melts into a slushy mess; and a producer (the still lovely Marie-France Pisier) who has optimistically promised that the film be completed in time for the Venice Film Festival. This results in a frantic, last-minute helicopter ride to the legendary Cinecitta film studio.
Mostly, what the film depicts is an endless series of pratfalls and sight gags relating to the entire cast and crew's inability to navigate the ice. Although this reliance on physical humor is a refreshing counterpoint to the onslaught of endlessly talky French cinema in recent years, the uninspired staging and lack of visual wit make the film's abbreviated running time of 80 minutes seem like eons. The only moments of pleasure come from the excellent cast, including Campbell's hilariously droll turn as the befuddled movie star and Chaplin demonstrating that talent is indeed genetic with her physical clowning. Also providing amusing moments are Mireille Perrier, as the director's beleaguered assistant, and veteran actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, as the rink's daffy owner.
THE ICE RINK
Interama Inc.
Director-screenwriter:Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Producers:Anne-Dominque Toussaint, Pascal Judelewicz
Director of photography:Jean-Francoise Robin
Editors:Ludo Troch, Anne Argouse
Color/stereo
Cast:
The director:Tom Novembre
The assistant:Mireille Perrier
The producer:Marie-France Pisier
The actor:Bruce Campbell
The actress:Dolores Chaplin
Director of ice rink:Jean-Pierre Cassel
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
This satire of filmmaking, a sort of "Day for Night" wannabe set largely at an ice rink, is so slight that it's a wonder that the print survived the trans-Atlantic crossing.
Written and directed by novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint, the film concerns the misbegotten efforts of a French director (Tom Novembre) to film a love story set in the world of hockey. His efforts are undermined by a cast who largely don't speak French, including a boorish American movie star (Bruce Campbell of the "Evil Dead" series) and an entire team of Lithuanian hockey players.
His other problems include a starlet (Dolores Chaplin, who is indeed Charlie's granddaughter) who immediately begins a disruptive affair with her co-star; a crew who don't know enough to shut off their bright lights, with the result that the ice melts into a slushy mess; and a producer (the still lovely Marie-France Pisier) who has optimistically promised that the film be completed in time for the Venice Film Festival. This results in a frantic, last-minute helicopter ride to the legendary Cinecitta film studio.
Mostly, what the film depicts is an endless series of pratfalls and sight gags relating to the entire cast and crew's inability to navigate the ice. Although this reliance on physical humor is a refreshing counterpoint to the onslaught of endlessly talky French cinema in recent years, the uninspired staging and lack of visual wit make the film's abbreviated running time of 80 minutes seem like eons. The only moments of pleasure come from the excellent cast, including Campbell's hilariously droll turn as the befuddled movie star and Chaplin demonstrating that talent is indeed genetic with her physical clowning. Also providing amusing moments are Mireille Perrier, as the director's beleaguered assistant, and veteran actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, as the rink's daffy owner.
THE ICE RINK
Interama Inc.
Director-screenwriter:Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Producers:Anne-Dominque Toussaint, Pascal Judelewicz
Director of photography:Jean-Francoise Robin
Editors:Ludo Troch, Anne Argouse
Color/stereo
Cast:
The director:Tom Novembre
The assistant:Mireille Perrier
The producer:Marie-France Pisier
The actor:Bruce Campbell
The actress:Dolores Chaplin
Director of ice rink:Jean-Pierre Cassel
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/27/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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