Sunday, January 24, 2016

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Review

Okay, so this time I'm going to review a Nickelodeon movie that premiered back in 2010 titled The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.
The film stars Victoria Justice as Jordan Sands,who is awkward and nerdy 17 year old, and she basically has a ruff life in school and is bullied by these two asshole girls.
She lives with her dad and her little brother and her mother passed away. The family visits to their Great Uncle's castle which they inherited in Wolfsburg.
They meet a really scary and weird housekeeper played by Brook Shields. There's also this Real Estate Agent named Paulina who starts dating Jordon and Hunter's father. Jordan gets something caught in her foot while she and her brother are down in their Great Uncle's lab,after some bats scare them, which is a pretty cool sequence.
Jordan then slowly starts to transform into a werewolf by night and it's up to her brother Hunter to help cure her before it's too late.
We see Jordan slowly change throughout the movie, she can start seeing without her glasses, she becomes more confident and when she gets cursed you see her flipping like an acrobat as jumping heights. Overall I did enjoy her character. She's a party nice girl ended she really does care for her brother in the movie.
I also thought the Real Estate Agent was a good villain, I mean it's pretty cool how you don't expect her to be this crazy vampire because she seems like such a nice lady and she's so nice to the Kids. It comes off as a bit of a surprise.
I also enjoyed Hunter, Jordan's younger brother in this movie. He's a pretty smart kid, and you kinda can connect with him on what he's going through. I mean, think of scary it would be if one of your siblings turned into a werewolf...
Over all, this is pretty fun and enjoyable movie. I thought it was just okay first two times I watched it, but upon rewathing it I found myself enjoying it.
Victoria Justice does a pretty good performance, and her character in this movie differs from her characters in Zoey 101 and Victorious.
The climax was decent, but I think it could have been longer, and I didn't care much for Brook Shields' character.
Also, I found it weird that they chose the characters to sing a Britney Spears song in the end credits. I mean, it's oddly nostalgic for me to hear that, but a 90s song that's not even popular anymore seems a bit out of place for a Nickelodeon movie that aired in 2010, but I'm not really complaining about that.
It's pretty good for a TV movie. I'd say give it a watch if you see it reran on Nicktoons or Teen Nick. That's all I have to say for this review. Take care.

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