Sheila meets up with Alice in the bathroom at school. She shows Alice her latest invention, something that scares away bugs. Hmmm...not sure but I think I smell more crap in the plot revolving around this gadget. The two depart and Alice lights up a cigarette which prompts her to realize she doesn't smoke. Its another thing she must have inherited through Kristen. Talk about sheer terror. It would really suck if Kristen had a bad case of herpes or something. Keep your damn power I say.
Later in class Sheila is having an athsma fit. For the life of me, I can't figure out why they always have the nerds have athsma in movies. It think it effects different groups but I can't prove that. Anyhow, as the test starts her formulas dance around on the sheet. She notices that Alice is with her in the dream. "Learning is fun with Freddy" spells out on her test. Her pens drips blood, she is attacked by some sort of mechanism and Freddy appears and invites her to suck face. Which he does quite nicely turning Sheila into a corpse. Meanwhile in real life, Sheila's nerdy human form passes on. Alice grabs her thing-a-magiggar as Sheila gets hauled out.
Now the odd part of this scene is I don't recall Alice calling in Sheila at any point. They both kind of fell asleep at the same time. However, Alice has a fit about "calling" Sheila into her dream. Guess I must have tuned out when that happened. Rick starts to believe a little more into Freddy. Later in the evening, Alice pulls a picture of her and Sheila off her mirror revealing more of her reflection. I guess this is supposed to be symbolic of Alice's guard coming down. Who cares...later that night Alice gets a visit from Dan at the diner. Shes working double shifts at the diner to stay awake. She figured out that now all the Elm Street kids are dead, Freddy needs someone to drag new blood in to dreams.
So heres another question to ponder; if thats the case, why the hell did Kristen give her power to Alice? All of this could have been wrapped up with Kristen's death. It kind of defeats the purpose of getting rid of Freddy don't it.
The next day in the school's locker room, Dan and Rick BS about Freddy some more. Cut to a Alice's class where a professor is talking about dreams. Gee...imagine that lecture coming at a time like this? Good thing theres a homicidal maniac to confront still. He talks about two gates both good and bad. The dream master guards the gate of evil to make sure good prevails blah blah blah. Alice starts to nod off a bit. Meanwhile, Rick is hanging out in a men's room stall. I'm not touching that last sentence, its too easy. A bunch of cheerleaders and Alice run in and it quickly turns into an elevator from hell. The door opens to reveal some kind of dojo where Rick starts to get the crap beat out of him by an unseen force. Freddy starts spouting off some lines from Kung Fu. Its time for...MORTAL KOMBAT! Seeing the game came out after this movie I can't fairly draw a link. Anyhow, Rick goes out with a boring kill which Alice freaks out about.
So another corpse gets added to the graveyard. During the funeral, Alice daydreams Rick jumping out of the casket with a big, "Hello Baby". I should say now, I have never felt less for fodder more while watching this film. They are annoying little brats that you hope Freddy does in painfully. Oh and once again, I don't ever recall Alice "calling in" Rick to her dream. I mean she already said that Freddy needs her to do that right? So thats two deaths down with no real rhyme or reason into Freddy's game. Before leaving the graveyard Debbie, Alice and Dan agree to meet later to discuss a war on Freddy. Yeah, I'd pick those douche bags too. Debbie gives Alice her studded bracelet as good luck. Alice says, "This is it, mind over matter". I think no one ever should use that cliche ever again in movies by the way. Oh and guess what...Debbie notes that Sheila used to say that a lot. That and every day Alice is changing. So I guess Alice would be like X-Men's Rogue who can channel other mutant's powers. Dan notes theres a change after every death. Well at least there is a schedule.
Ok, now let me add this side point. If Alice has the power to call people into dreams, why not someone useful? For example, someone like Mr T. Or how about GI Joe? Better yet, grab another killer like Leatherface for a good VS movie. It always seems to be someone completely useless. But I digress once again. That night more pictures come down off the mirror. Alice takes out Rick's old set of knunchucks and finds out she can use them effectively. Ok this is getting real stupid now. People have to die for Alice to become powerful. Once again, it defeats the purpose of stopping Freddy if people have to die for her power. Pretty selfish isn't it? Anyhow, Alice's father stops her on the way out to meet Debbie.
Meanwhile, Debbie stars a workout to more lousy 80s music. Cut back to Alice who escapes through the bed room window. For some odd reason, she goes to check out a flick. Its a wonderful movie with people dancing the night away. However it changes to a boarded up diner which sucks Alice in to the screen. The audience gives a standing ovation as Alice quickly finds herself in the boarded up diner. This is actually her workplace she is having a dream about. I have to admit, that sequence was one of the more enjoyable ones in the movie.
An old waitress takes her order and it turns out she is an older version of Alice. Freddy shows up and the waitress serves up a pizza with everyone's soul in it. I actually saw that pizza at a place called Spooky World. Its a pretty cool effect actually. Freddy tells Alice to bring her more kids. Once again, Alice doesn't say one goddamn word and Debbie gets sucked into the dream. I've given up trying to figure out how she is doing this. Maybe she thinks the name like Ray did with the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters. I frankly do not care any more. Freddy wakes Alice up from the dream.
Alice meets up with Dan next to the diner and they both head off to Debbie's place. Debbie falls asleep while working out which prompts a visit from Freddy. Ok...hold on to something because this next sequence gets really really really stupid. Alice arrives at Debbie's house and immediately it cuts back to the scene five minutes ago. The one where Alice meets up with Dan at the diner. For a minute I thought my DVD player was on A to B repeat. Off they go agin to Debbie's house. Meanwhile Debbie looks up while pumping iron to see Freddy spotting her. She tries to fend him off by saying, "I don't believe in you". Thats such a stupid line to say to a guy known to kill your friends isn't it? Freddy retorts with, "I believe in you". Cute response Freddy. Freddy shoves down her arms until her elbows break. Out of her arms come bug like feelers.
Once again Alice arrives but the scene goes back to the diner again. Stupid f*cking movie. On the third drive back Dan notes he feels a bit of deja vu going on. About time someone notices. Meanwhile Debbie finds herself in a roach motel. Funny ass scene actually. Back to Alice who arrives at the diner...sigh...again. Finally the two realize Freddy has them going in circles and that they're both asleep. So um...what does that have to do with repeating this scene 4 times? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they ran out of plot or something by this point. Meanwhile roach Debbie gets crushed by Freddy. Alice notes she collected her like the others while driving to her house. I guess Debbie's power is the ability to have poofy hair 24 hours a day.
Alice spots Freddy in the road and tries to run him over. Turn out she was driving while sleeping and hits a motorbike. Dan is knocked out semi cold. So once again, I wasn't aware one could drive so well while sleeping. I thought this was all happening in the dream. Apparently sleep walking has taken new bold turns according to this movie. Alice does her best to keep Dan awake. Unfortunately for her, he is heading off to surgery in fifteen minutes. She steals her father's keys and drives back home. Alice pops a few pills and gears up like Bruce Campbell does in Evil Dead. Except she does it with the corny artifacts from her dead friends. She takes down all the pictures on her mirror to reveal...a dorky girl dressed like total goofball.
Dan finds himself in the operating room with Freddy. Alice jumps through her mirror and into the operating room. Alice and Dan run their ass away into a tunnel that looks like a bad carnival ride. Freddy makes the tunnel go around in circles and the two break through into a church. Dan finds himself bleeding and quickly disappears from the dream world. Alice is left alone to hear the famous kid's chant. Time for the big final showdown...the one we've been hoping this movie would finally get to in order to end this crap.
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