Del Toro's 'Wolfman' Is Funereal, Not Fun

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Authors and filmmakers have come up with endless ways to inject fresh blood into the vampire, while the werewolf generally has been left out there alone on the moors, howling at the moon.

The big-screen is ripe for a new take on the hairy he-wolf legend. Yet despite a first-rate cast led by Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt, a classy re-creation of late- Victorian England and commendable respect for the 1941 original movie, "The Wolfman" is more a yawn than a scream.

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Del Toro's 'Wolfman' Is Funereal, Not Fun

The tone adopted by director Joe Johnston ("Jurassic Park III") is oppressive to the point of suffocating. Sure, the players here are swept up in...

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