You know, we're never going to see the end of movie sequels, so why resist? At present Hollywood have seen fit to yet again resurrect Jason AND freddy, but this time in the SAME film, (cleverly called Freddy Versus Jason). Michael Myer's has made is way out of the asylum some 8 times (well okay #3 had nothing to do with Mikey) and Pinhead is about to start work on 2 more back to back sequels.

Back in the early eighties John Landis unleashed a original and clever horror film with An American Werewolf in London. it may have taken some 10 years to get it made, but it certainly made it's mark in the world. So one must wonder why it took so long to make a sequel. Outside of the USA, it sorta kinda happened in the early 90's when Landis made Innocent Blood. Outside of the USA, for purely marketing reasons, Innocent Blood was retitled "A French Vampire in America". Vampire was similarly styled to that of Werewolf, and is in fact a fabulously gory and bloody funny movie with a brilliant turn from Robert Loggia as the head mafia vampire :)

A few more years would pass until a "titled" sequel to Werewolf would emerge..... An American Werewolf in Paris.
First thoughts on this lead me to believe it would be a great followup to the original, seeing as the man behind the camera was Anthony Waller, who had previously directed the excellent independent Snuff themed film Mute Witness. But alas, this was not the case. Paris Werewolf does have it's moments, but these moments are really rehashes from the first film.

Our American Tourist is nice guy Andy(Tom Everett Scott), who has been trekking across Europe with his buddies Brad(Vince Vieluf) and Chris(Phil Buckman) making dare devil bets along the way. they make their way to Paris where Andy is going to out do them all by bungy jumping off the Effiell Tower. As he's about to jump, a girl Serafine (Julie Delpy) tosses herself off without the aid of a rope and Andy jumps after her, and saves her life.

As Andy runs around Paris looking for her what he doesn't know is that girl of his dreams is a werewolf, and before you know it, Andy becomes one himself.

Plotwise you've got similar trials and tribulations of the original film. but in Paris you have your werewolf pack who happen to lure American tourist into their nightclub and proceed to butcher them for food when the moon is full :)

Paris Werewolf plays up the funny too much whereas the original played it down, which is why it worked so well there.

VIDEO
For a relatively new film, the Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer isn't all that great, but is still passable (this DVD is also flagged for 4x3 Pan & Scan Mode). Source material wise, it's too soft, there's plenty of light level grain and all these problems attribute to a picture that looks quite flat. Colours are rather muted which makes the picture look somewhat lifeless.  MPEG encoding isn't too bad but does at times show signs of compression/artifacting.

AUDIO
According to the end credits this film was released with a Dolby Digital audio mix (the fact the logo includes the word "digital" is suppose to mean it's got 5.0 or 5.1 channels) The DVD is merely Dolby Digital 2.0. At times the sound is front soundstage and centre channel focused, but it can at times open up and fill the surrounds (as is the case with the hospital sequence when Andy wakes up)
Dialogue is generally clean and clear, but shows signs of post dialogue replacement. (there were a few times where this occurred in the middle of scenes and you can here a distinct different in tonally between snippets of dialogue)

EXTRAS
Nothing too compelling.