WOLFMAN DVD REVIEW
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Creative Loafing's own Joe Bardi reviewed the movie when it hit theaters, and I mostly agree when he said Benecio Del Toro was flat and disappointing as an actor turned monster. He also stated the effects were sometimes cheesy, and the gore bordered on laughable. Overall, it's by far the worst film experience you'll find, but it is far from similar from the Lon Chaney Jr. classic. So, what is there on the DVD besides the movie? The answer; didly shit.
While the movie is worth the rent, the DVD has very little going for it. The DVD has a special "unrated version" of the movie, which seems to add two very insignificant scenes in the very beginning, and nothing else I could find throughout the movie; certainetly nothing to enhance the movie experience.
The DVD also includes deleted scenes, these scenes, around five in all, simply extend scenes in the movie, most of which add nothing to the experience, and often show why the scenes where cut in the first place, either because they contradict other scenes in the movie, or just simply add the same things.
Sadly, that is the extent of the DVD special features. No director commentary, no transforming Del Toro into a wolfman (not much of a task) and no homage to the wolfmen before him. Sadly, the lack of features, and the mediocre quality of the movie result in this DVD being a RENT, and nothing more.
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