Family Pack is a Netflix family-friendly French horror/comedy (with emphasis on comedy) time travel legally distinct Jumanji knock-off. It also borrows amusingly and heavily from Werewolf… and Ultimate Werewolf, One Night Werewolf, and One Week Ultimate Werewolf. And Loup Garou, I suppose.

It follows a blended family as they try to bond with their fading grandpa over an old copy of a Werewolf table top game. And before you know it, they are whipped transported back to 1500s France where they have to figure out their roles (hunter, seer, witch), mix with the backwards townsfolk, and figure out who the secret werewolves are.

And figuring out who the werewolves are is exactly a legally distinct variation on the social deduction Werewolf table-top game. A game in which you get a secret identity and have to sus out who in the group is the secret werewolf. Just like these out-of-time French folk have to do in this flick.

So that’s clever if you’ve ever played Werewolf (or Mafia or Secret Hitler, etc.). It’s not exact to the game but its close enough you can see the inspiration. It’s a little clever.

And it’s a little family-friendly fun. A decent number of jokes land with a thud but there are some good ones, usually involving modern people in the backwards Middle Ages. I laughed quite a bit at the lawyer trying to convince a medieval wife that her husband shouldn’t beat her… “not even a little bit?” she asks, clearly disappointed. Har-de-har-har.

I’d only call it scary in that it has some practical effects werewolves with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it explosive transformations. Nobody will be scared unless they are very young. But, hey, not too many werewolf movies are decent-ish so nice to have a new one? Kinda sorta maybe?

If I didn’t know Werewolf (the game), this would get a lower score. It’s a pretty clever not-Jumanji movie about Not-Werewolf and that amuses me. As a comedy, it’s alright. As a werewolf movie, it’s decent-ish. As a scary werewolf movie? Nah. It’s for the younger set.

Score: 76