Saw and loved the movie, but the werewolf's look was a big disappointment. He had virtually no hair. The most annoying thing was that the dog character that Black would change into looked a lot more like a proper werewolf. But I was happy that the werewolf was a good guy, even if he wasn't when he transformed into the beast.

I definitely will add it to my collection, though I'm not sure if I will be able to get it on the day/week it comes out. I LOVED the movie and can't wait to get it, though! Hopefully, I'll be able to snag it and Van Helsing (among a few others) before Christmas, but we'll see. I did manage to pick up "Elf." Hilarious movie and Zooey Deschantel is dreamy! (off topic, I still need to catch up in "slave2moonlight's forum," answering questions and stuff, but I haven't forgotten. I'll try to do that sometime before dawn).

Red, I have seen the movie at the theaters last summer and I was very disappointed with that "Harry Potter" werewolf. He looked like a wet greyhound! Black, on the other paw, looked more like a wolf even he's supposed to be a big black DOG!

Well, the trouble is the child/teen actors are growing faster than the characters in the books. Each book is about one year at Hogwarts but it takes a few years to make a movie (unless you ere making them back-to-back-to-back like "The Lord of the Rings"movies) So Daniel Radchiff, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson will be probably be around for a few more movies (hopefully)

They oughta feed that Werewolf. He's emaciated and has lost all his hair (probably due to some vitamen deficiency)

Am I the only person who's notiiced the startling similarities between Harry Potter and DC/Vertigo's Tim Hunter. In the movies Harry even looks like Tim. Their lives are very similar and they've had very similar experiences - only where Harry went to Hogwarts, Tim went to the White School. The mani difference is that Tim's parents were lethargic slobs that ended up destroying themselves while Harry's parents were heroic people. Of course, Harry's foster parents are slobs that would, in any reality, end up destroying themselves.

Oh, ya'll are talking about the Weredog. I had no big problem with him. The Werewolf was Lupin's alter that looked like a bulemic, shaved Werewolf.

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Oh, ya'll are talking about the Weredog. I had no big problem with him. The Werewolf was Lupin's alter that looked like a bulemic, shaved Werewolf.

No, we were talking about the werewolf. He looked like a starving greyhound or chihuahua like Ren Hoek. The weredog was awesome, and looked more the way I would envision a physically transforming werewolf. But, personally, for Harry Potter's world I was hoping for something along the lines of the Van Helsing Werewolves. I also was hoping they wouldn't go the route of all werewolves being ravenous killers. But then, I've never read the books, but I think it would have been cool if they made some of their werewolves noble creatures. I wish the werewolves in their forest were split into packs of good and evil, or something like that. I just thought Hogwarts would be a great place to introduce some good werewolves (and bad). But at least he was good in his human form...

Aaw, bad news for me. Well, actually, 18 is fine if they give us that much, ha.

It was a weregreyhound with mange. Sirius made a better werewolf as the black 'dog' that looked just like a scraggly wolf

You know, for the purposes of the story you had to feel sorry for Lupin and the werewolf looked a little thin and sad.  While not the "bad ass" notion of a werewolf most people have I think it suited the story, I didn't mind it at all.  The idea of a wolf man looking awkward and malformed actually makes since if you consider you're literally crossing humans with a breed of animal; it almost shouldn't fit.

Plus I always think of what John Landis said in the extras on An American Werewolf in London DVD, and that was werewolves are kings of the shmucks because things never go their way; that fits with this interpretaion of a werewolf.

Like a voodoo mastah, I rise this topic from the dead... sorry about that ^^;
But I think it's time I semi-ranted about this in it's proper place:

Lupin himself was an awsome character in the books and the movie (also my favorite character ^^),
but when the movie came out and he transformed, I was in complete shock.
I was just sitting there waiting for him to finish transforming, AND HE WAS!!! D:
The movie as far as the werewolf (and other things not werewolf like that I'll not mention), was a complete failure!
So naturally, I say the werewolf in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was equivalent (if not more) to epic fail! 8P