Warning: This article may contain spoilers for Teen Wolf: The Movie
It has already been a few weeks since the international release of the film sequel Of Teen Wolf on the platform Paramount+. The elapsed time has allowed most to recover, or skip, the feature film that takes up the supernatural events of Scott McCall’s herd fifteen years later. Since the conclusion of the TV series with the sixth season on MTV in 2017, many members of the cast have always said they are in favor of a return to the scene, and here, finally, after a year of waiting, the film has been released. Unfortunately, Teen Wolf: The Movie it was not received too well by critics and, above all, by the most passionate fans, disappointed by several narrative choices. L’nostalgia effect which the title backs up isn’t enough, and the sequel ends up being a parody of itself.
In an attempt to settle the accounts of the past and to condense a seventh season that never was into two hours and thirty minutes, Teen Wolf: The Movie has left many perplexities.
In the transience of a film that tries to reopen the discussion and close it further, the foundations are not solid enough to be able to articulate a structure that brings together almost all the cast members who have followed one another in the six seasons of Teen Wolf. one show choral who struggles to find a space and an explanation for everything in the cinematic format, with a result that lleaves some doubts that even question what was built and affirmed in the six seasons of the TV series. Here we have collected the most unjustified items and no sense of the film, which helped mark the return of Teen Wolf as a forgettable sequel and an excellent opportunity not fully exploited.
1) Eli, Derek Hale’s son
The first minutes of the film are dedicated to the reunion between the various characters, some who remained in Beacon Hills, others who grew up in distant places. Little by little, some details of the life of the protagonists are conveyed in the fifteen years that have passed since the end of the show. And here, among the most striking news, is a radical change in the life of the dark werewolf Derek Hale. The character played by Tyler Hoechlin has become padre. Derek a fifteen year old son, Eli, therefore had in parallel to the narrative period of the conclusion of the TV series. It’s hard to calculate, but we do well, given that, to facilitate and speed up the discussion, we don’t even know the identity of the woman with whom the young Hale was conceived. In the conventional implausibility of a supernatural teen drama, Eli’s presence and demographics are specious.
2) A new couple in Beacon Hills: Parrish and Malia
In reassembling in 2026 the various members of Scott McCall’s pack, in the film they are presented quickly, providing contextual clues to understand part of the life spent in the elusive fifteen years of darkness. Not only did the protagonist finish his story with Malia Tate, a key relationship for the sixth season and for the conclusion of the TV series itself, but the reasons are not even given. The first, quick, minutes of Malia on stage are dedicated to one fiery intimacy scene with the policeman Jordan Parrish. The story between the two has no particular logical connection with the events, and is not even presented in any way. The occasional adventures between the two are unrelated to the ties of the couple, and the sentimental problems between Malia and Parrish occupy some sequences of the condensed plot of the film by Teen Wolfan unnecessary and unmotivated addition that it doesn’t do justice to the characters and their pasts.
3) The end of Stydia
Meanwhile, other romances have moved on and come to an end, not just the one between Scott and Malia, or the one between Melissa and Chris Argent. Even the most loved and desired couple by fans has sadly come to an end. Lydia Martin and Stiles Stilinski are no longer together, and the reason is explained towards the end of the film. Apparently, the young Banshee has walked away from the love of her life to protect him. Following a series of dreams in which Dylan O’Brien’s character is the victim of a car accident, Lydia began to fear it was a premonitory vision. To prevent this from becoming a reality, she has decided to distance herself from her beloved partner. A motivation that she doesn’t hold up on a supernatural show like Teen Wolf, in which the characters were able to go through everything. A futile and fleeting reason that doesn’t stand in the way a Beacon Hills where the dead are never really dead. The Study they deserved better, or at least a more detailed conclusion that could satisfy the fans dedicated to the couple.
4) Allison Argent is alive
The main plot of Teen Wolf: The Movie revolves around the goal of fix the mistake biggest salesman from the tv series. The death of Allison Argent it was mourned, regretted, celebrated and much more. But it’s a death that, nearly a decade after it aired, has been honored and digested. Take the opportunity of a sequel film and dedicate it to resurrection of a now deceased character is not profitable. In the most total implausibility, Allison Argent resurrects in the first fifteen minutes of the film and comes back to life on the screen, a choice we definitely didn’t need, especially in the face of all the consequences that the event brought with it.
5) Allison’s waking up look
Allison Argent’s white body is found at the roots of the Nemeton by Scott, Lydia and Malia. The young deceased, who has spent more than fifteen years without life, is recovered and taken to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital. From the very first moments it’s funny to note how obviously Allison is changed and grown over the years but, above all, it is curious to note the treatment that the body has had of itself in all this time. Allison wakes up in the hospital, with perfect skin, hair done, make-up and nails complete with polish. She is ready and brilliant for the big screen. In addition, the young werewolf hunter has also developed hers further fighting skillsmanaging to wreak havoc since his resurrection and even giving a hard time in hand-to-hand fights against Scott and Malia.
6) Adrian Harris is also alive
Apparently, not only is Allison Argent alive but, for the occasion, Teen Wolf: The Movie resurrect also one of his many antagonists, Adrian Harris, the seemingly deceased chemistry professor in season three. Killed by the Darach and believed dead for over fifteen years, the teacher returns to the scene for the sequel, with the intention of take revenge against Scott McCall and his pack. Freeing the Nogitsune with the aim of ruining the existence of the Alpha and his loved ones, Harris collaborates with the super-villain par excellence. Working alongside Season 3’s primary antagonist, Harris is speciously resurrected, re-enacted for film, in a context that had left him behind and long forgotten.
7) Wasn’t the Nogitsune immortal?
For the movie of Teen Wolf returns the most famous antagonist of the TV series, the Nogitsune, an evil Kitsune fueled by chaos, pain and strife who tormented Scott McCall’s pack throughout the third season. Manipulative and capable of possessing the spirits of others, the Nogitsune was professed during the course of the TV series as a creature immortalcontrollable and eradicated only in the form of mosca in which he can be reduced and imprisoned once defeated. Under the pretext of Teen Wolf: The Movie, the supernatural super villain is freed from the urn in which Liam and Hikari kept him trapped. By doing so, the Nogitsune can begin its revenge against Scott and his pack, starting with the resurrection of Allison. Following the various clashes, the sequel leads up to the final showdown, in which, apparently, the Void Kitsune he’s not all that immortal. With the price of Derek Hale’s life, the Nogitsune is depowered and immobilized, to be pulverized by Jordan Parrish. A creature over a hundred years old, indestructible, immortal, which has tormented the protagonists of Teen Wolf all this time, it is taken out in a too specious and superficial way, which nullify and resize all previous efforts.
8) The absence of Stiles Stilinski and Kira Yukimura
From the beginning, the non-participation of the beloved Dylan O’Brien in the sequel to Teen Wolf. Yet, precisely in the face of the antagonists and references to the third season chosen for the film, it seems irrational theabsence of Stiles Stilinskie di Kira Yukimura, who had played a key role in the course of the third chapter and the clash with the Oni and the Nogitsune. Resuming the most famous season of the supernatural teen drama certainly has its valid reasons, but bringing it back to the scene without the characters who had contributed so much in this direction is not particularly profitable. The role of a figure like that of Stiles Stilinski is difficult to fill, for charisma and contribution (as well as for the healthy fanservice). While Kira is superficially replaced by another Kitsune inserted at the table for the occasion.
9) A new Kitsune in town
Teen Wolf: The Movie has start in 2026, among other characters, Liam has moved into Japanin which he manages a restaurant together with Hikari Zhanghis new girlfriend and young Kitsune. It is from the two that, following a mysterious attack by a dark figure, the prisoner Nogitsune is freed. Not much is known about the relationship and the past history of the two characters, and it is clear that the character of Hikari is contextually introduced within the sequel only because a Kitsune is needed in the confrontation with the third season’s antagonist. Unfortunately, thanks to a choral narration and condensed narrative times, not much is known about Hikari, and her presence is insignificant and transitory, useless.
10) Allison and Scott adopt Eli
All’s well that ends well (more or less): the stars finally coincide after more than fifteen years and, as in the most obvious romantic productions, Scott McCall is reunited with the love of his life. At the cost of a disappointing sequel, which even saw the death of one of the pivotal characters of Teen Wolf in order to guarantee the endgame of the Scallison. In the film’s finale, the young Eli reduced to an orphan comes adopted by Scott and Allison, who continue to work in the Los Angeles animal shelter together with Deaton. The decision to entrust the newfound couple with the guidance of a teenager grappling with the supernatural powers of a werewolf is not particularly sensible, especially considering that Eli already has a family behind him. With zio Peter Hale e Malia, both belonging to the prestigious family tree from which he comes, Eli has already lived most of his life inside the car workshop run by the Hales. Transplanting the 15-year-old into a new reality with two semi-strangers at any moment doesn’t seem like the idea of the century.
