'Shapeshifter' (1999) – Phillipe Browning.

After a dramatic kidnapping, precocious teen, Alex Brown's (Paul Nolan) singular shapeshifting ability is startlingly revealed to him by charismatic, 360 yr old Romanian gypsy Janos (Teodor Danetti). This unprecedented physical talent for metamorphosis proves happily fortuitous, since Alex would have enormous trouble rescuing his missing spy parents without it! This bold, madly incongruous admixture of Spy Kids & Manimal, while aggressively ludicrous, is certainly not without some bizarro appeal to the more forgiving psychotronic B-Movie fans! If you can fully accept Shapeshifter's playful lack of credibility, one might then be able to more fully appreciate this gallopingly goofy spy/shapeshifting fantasy! Shot in picturesque Bucharest, the film is often visually appealing, diffusing the clunky dynamics of its rather tiresome Cold War plot. This kooky caper is remarkably well acted, and the gifted actors play it relatively straight, which ultimately works greatly to Shapeshifter's advantage. This fabulously freaky, far-flung Full Moon fantasy proved to be more righteous than I thought it would be, and the Pantomime-nasty Cyberwitch (Catherine Blythe) needs her very own Full Moon franchise! 

 “I saw things too, smoke that turned into shapes!!!!”