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Avg. Critic Score: 33 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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  • 70
    Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

    Never having read the book, I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Scott Brown

    Werewolves are tame with overuse, and movies like Blood and Chocolate -- where moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth clich -- play like underlit "Charmed" reruns. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe |

    Entertaining in a B-movie sort of way, and you can't help admiring its earnestness about the philosophical issues it invokes. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    The lead performers certainly are highly attractive, making this one of the more sensual werewolf pictures in quite a while -- and to their credit, they do manage to keep a straight face throughout. But ultimately, the anemic Blood and Chocolate could have benefited from a little less chocolate and a lot more blood. Read full review

  • 40
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Not as yummy as it sounds, true, but nowhere near as godawful as "Van Helsing," a small mercy but very much appreciated. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    The entire star-crossed scenario is conveyed with the narrative simplicity of a musicvideo, lingering in an almost fetishistic manner on sensual details (boxes of chocolates, a blood-red ribbon) while compressing important elements of the story into clumsy montages. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Uninvolving and clich-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is "Romeo and Juliet" with fewer manners and more exotic dentition. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News |

    Though technically a werewolf movie, the silly Blood and Chocolate is really just a toothless love story about the bad stuff that can happen when two very different people fall in love. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times |

    It's a relentlessly silly horror/fantasy/romance that is merely the latest twist on a tired premise. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    Not since "An American Werewolf in London" in 1981 reset the standard for man-to-wolf transformations has anyone tried to get away with special effects as pitiful as the ones in this movie. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Young, beautiful werewolves battle in Bucharest.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that while this werewolf movie doesn't include any truly horrific onscreen violence, it does show the results of violent attacks -- namely, bloody injuries and dead bodies. As a child, the central werewolf witnesses her parents' shooting deaths (the child's perspective might be troubling to younger viewers). Most of the rest of the violence is less emotionally invested. Lots of images of wolves hunting and attacking humans; fights include leaps, punches, and kicks, as well as stabbings and falls. Some chase scenes through streets feature tense cuts and dark shadows. On the sex side, there's some cleavage on display, a girl dances provocatively at a nightclub, there's talk of "mating," and a romantic couple kisses (sex is implied). Once they're dead or wounded, wolves revert back to human form, nude (the crucial parts are covered). Fairly mild language; the characters drink liquor and discuss drugs and drug dealing.
  • Families can talk about the tension between Vivian's family expectations and traditions and her desire to be "free" of them. How does she come to trust her own instincts? How does Vivian's position represent that of other women in the pack? How does her childhood trauma affect her decisions? How does Vivian's struggle relate to the kinds of issues that real teens deal with? What could the movie be a metaphor for?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Werewolves range from ferocity to nobility; human male protagonist is earnest; Vivian is torn between her wolfness and her humanness.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Wolves hunt and attack humans, leaving bloodied carcasses; one attack on a girl is rendered so that the result makes the point (but quick, flashy cuts omit the actual assault); prolonged attacks on the hero, with fighting and throwing/slamming, ripping of bodies; he assaults the wolves with a silver knife and sharp-edged pendant (bloodied wolves transform into human bodies); wolves growl and look menacing; assault on drug dealer has him smashed into bar and floor, begging for his life; lengthy shootout at film's end (werewolves shoot at each other).
  • sex false3 Sex: Discussion of pack leader "taking a mate" every seven years; romantic scenes and kissing between primary couple; one cutaway from a prolonged nighttime kiss suggests that a couple had sex; some cleavage-baring outfits; after transforming into wolves, the human bodies appear naked (the crucial bits are always covered); girl dances provocatively, with shot of her bottom from male observer's point of view (she later appears later in a nightgown, about to be wolf-meat); lyrics in nightclub song include "I want to taste you."
  • language false3 Language: Fairly minor, including "hell," "damn," "bitch" (several times).
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some drinking in nightclub; several mentions of absinthe (once as "poison"); reference to drug dealer's bad acts ("dirty needles" and selling to children).
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