This movie has its merits. It's good campy fun and director Ronny Yu gives us some visuals that are extremely cool to watch at. Any flick that features Jason going up in flames, walking through a corn field, slashing ravers with his machete is fine with me.
But seriously, at times Yu manages to make this camp fest look awesome. There's a fight scene close to the end where Jason and Freddy beat up each other at a construction site by night which is hilarious and almost iconic.
The movie knows what it is, never takes itself seriously, gives fans of the genre a better time than most of the predecessors of both franchises.
The plot (Freddy is almost forgotten by people so he sends Jason to Elm Street hoping that people will think that Jason's rampage is Freddy's work so he can nourish on their fear) is ludicrous but as the set up allows it to be.
Nevertheless, even from a movie like this it's not too much to ask for some coherence within itself and within the franchises. From that point of you, much can be held against it.
First of all, Freddy slays teenagers, as he doesn't kill adults. (He does so in Part 7: Freddy's New Nightmare, but this movie was meant rather as a satire than a legit part of the mythology). But there's a crucial back story in FvJ that Freddy kills the mother of the protagonist - clearly a violation of the Nightmare-myth.
When Freddy enters the teenager's dreams, they are asleep. They don't actually walk around doing stuff, they are laying somewhere, sleeping. Funnily enough, at the convenience of the plot, sometimes they're actually doing what they're in their doing in their dreams, and sometimes - if it's not convenient for the plot - they don't. (Consider the scene where Freddy is spilling the hypnocil, clearly a dream sequence, but he's actually doing it).
Some fight scenes, as hilarious as they are, don't make sense in a physical way. Sometimes they couldn't decide whether one person was standing up or lying down. The distance between two spots can obviously vary. It takes them a minute to go from A to B, but only seconds to be back. Of course you can blame it all on bad editing, but somehow i don't think that it it's that.
However, in spite of all these flaws, I've watched the movie 20 times and it still entertains. I would love a sequel, but I don't think it's going to happen.
6/10.
But seriously, at times Yu manages to make this camp fest look awesome. There's a fight scene close to the end where Jason and Freddy beat up each other at a construction site by night which is hilarious and almost iconic.
The movie knows what it is, never takes itself seriously, gives fans of the genre a better time than most of the predecessors of both franchises.
The plot (Freddy is almost forgotten by people so he sends Jason to Elm Street hoping that people will think that Jason's rampage is Freddy's work so he can nourish on their fear) is ludicrous but as the set up allows it to be.
Nevertheless, even from a movie like this it's not too much to ask for some coherence within itself and within the franchises. From that point of you, much can be held against it.
First of all, Freddy slays teenagers, as he doesn't kill adults. (He does so in Part 7: Freddy's New Nightmare, but this movie was meant rather as a satire than a legit part of the mythology). But there's a crucial back story in FvJ that Freddy kills the mother of the protagonist - clearly a violation of the Nightmare-myth.
When Freddy enters the teenager's dreams, they are asleep. They don't actually walk around doing stuff, they are laying somewhere, sleeping. Funnily enough, at the convenience of the plot, sometimes they're actually doing what they're in their doing in their dreams, and sometimes - if it's not convenient for the plot - they don't. (Consider the scene where Freddy is spilling the hypnocil, clearly a dream sequence, but he's actually doing it).
Some fight scenes, as hilarious as they are, don't make sense in a physical way. Sometimes they couldn't decide whether one person was standing up or lying down. The distance between two spots can obviously vary. It takes them a minute to go from A to B, but only seconds to be back. Of course you can blame it all on bad editing, but somehow i don't think that it it's that.
However, in spite of all these flaws, I've watched the movie 20 times and it still entertains. I would love a sequel, but I don't think it's going to happen.
6/10.
