The question remains: If you’re a werewolf who wants to avoid the change and you take a jet that keeps flying west, always staying ahead of the full moon, will you succeed in stiflng your animal side?

There’s a metaphor buried in there somewhere. Address it at your own risk.

Back to business:

There are good werewolf movies and there’s “Blood and Chocolate.”

The humorless horror/romance/coming-of-age picture stars Agnes Bruckner as Vivian, a sullen, 19-year-old shape-shifter who takes the “Romeo and Juliet” stance of falling for someone not of her own kind.

Played by Hugh Dancy, he’s human, but, like her, he’s guilt-ridden, angst-laden and a rebel.

Like her clan members, he’s also scruffy.

Coincidentally, or, if you prefer, ironically, he’s visiting Bucharest to research a graphic novel about decent, misunderstood werewolves.

Which describes Vivian’s family to a teeth, er, “T.”

Short version (my entire review is posted on insidebayarea.com/movies): Viv is promised to the clan leader (Olivier Martinez), who takes a new mate every seven years.

It’s prophecied somewhere on the cutting-room floor that Vivian’s the next.

But the kid only wants to run fast and run free through the woods and streets of Bucharest, and up and down the sides of buildings - which no one seems to notice.

Based on a young-adult novel, “Blood and Chocolate” is parts after-school special, “Underworld,” “Blood Ties,” Shakespeare, “An American Werewolf in Paris” and the kitchen sink.

It tries to be all things to all teens.

As such, it’s a mess but a fascinating mess, like a train crash in slo-mo against a Hallmark Card landscape.

The bad acting melds well with the campy dialogue.

After the change - painless, by the way, and with special effects that amount to flashes of light _ the shape-shifters shift into real wolves rather than heavily made-up or computer-generated ones.

It’s nothing like the real thing.

The “…and Chocolate” has to do with Viv working in a chocolate shop, and Viv’s aunt warning her that neither blood nor chocolate is any good.

As if.

The aunt doesn’t go into detail.

Just as well; she’s already destroyed the movie’s credibility.

Did I mention that the werewolves secretly protect the town by ridding its streets of drug-dealing swill - and without leaving any table scraps?