Money makes the world go round - and Hollywood in particular, and more than ever.
What with 'Freddy's Dead,' we all kind of presumed that the fire-scarred devil of the same name was just that. But no - some wise dick in some swanky office thought it'd be cool to revive the guy again to make a little bit more money out of the cult character.
Hence this ludicrously contrived story in which Freddy manages to return to his favourite haunt of Elm Street to scare the shit, piss and poor left over human self-pity out of a brand new bunch of kids. Even more bizarrely, Jason Voores magically becomes embroiled in the surreal world where reality clashes with harsh dreams to ensure you're never safe and cannot fall asleep full-stop, at any cost. Otherwise you get it, if you know what I mean�
Freddy's still played by the original man behind the mask, Robert Englund. The beauty part about horror movies is: nobody who's in them has to be the greatest actor. Luckily for Englund mind, he's made a small fortune on the back of this one character since the first 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movie in 1984; and still he has the balls to cut it as fabled madman and burnt-to-death child abuser Freddy Krueger. Hey, at least Freddy speaks, which is more than anyone can literally say for Jason Voores, who winds up fighting Freddy for the kids of Elm Street.
Nope, these two ugly hoodlums are hardly diplomatic and selfishly think they both have the right to kill each and every last kid down the street for their own good, on their own terms and to further their own infamous glory.
And you know what? The resultant movie honestly is great fun, and probably the bloodiest movie ever. The funniest thing of all is that 'Freddy Vs. Jason' is actually funny in the sense that Freddy never takes himself seriously and dutifully takes the mick out of the eerily silent as-ever Jason: even if both ever-enduring martyrs of modern horror movies are evenly matched when it comes to fighting it out to the end.
With sick and twisted murders therein, there is no wonder some people accuse various movies directly for inspiring violent motives in people. But so long as you, the viewer, is of sound body & mind there should be no trouble in adapting to the gore levels� and the subsequent enjoyment of this movie is inevitable. 4/5 (Steve Rudd)