once upon a time there be a great american film . which combine horror and comedy with equal thrill . this film feature clever direction . groundbreaking special effect and superb comedic and serious acting . it be entitle an american werewolf in london . sixteen year later the long awaited sequel be finally pin onto the poster board outside your local theater . surely it would have at least some of the thrill of the original . think again . an american werewolf in paris be an incomprehensible mess from start to pitiful finish . the problem begin with the lead man . tom everett scott performance be stiff and tiresome . from the outset he seem intent on prove that all young people be simpleton . in his defense and not even a seasoned shakespearean thespian could have extract a good performance from the juvenile and witless dialogue . at one point and one of scott decease friend and who soul be doom to walk the earth after be carve up by one of the werewolf and be finally able to leave for the afterlife . he then quip to scott and his friend . okay guy and see ya . what a memorable goodbye . julie delphy soon show up a scott mysterious european love interest . basically and she a french girl play the french girl . it isn not much of a stretch . but all this stupidity isn not even the most disappointing thing about the film . the special effect and such an integral part of the superb original film and fall far short in this flop . the werewolf look like cartoon . and no matter how well you sculpt a cartoon with sinewy lycanthrope muscle . it still hard to get scar of a cartoon . so instead the vacation american gang and lead by the ultra weak scott and keep finding excuse to return to the werewolf catacombs lair . here it much easy for this incompetent special effect crew to keep the computer enhance creature or absurd beast mask under the cover of darkness . some have say that if you do not look on this film a a sequel it not a bad by comparison . i disagree and this film can not stand on it own and and be even more of a disgrace when compare to the brilliant original . if it doesn not want to be look on a a sequel it should not have borrow most of the title from the 1981 film . i and do not care how much you love werewolf . or how much you worship american werewolf in london . a i myself do . this one be simply not worth waste your time . okay guy and see ya . terrible . 3 out of a possible 10 t. h .