FREDDY VS JASON (2003)
Tagline: A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Friday the 13th
(Horror, Action, Clash Of The Titans) [R]
Dude, that goalie was pissed about something.
So sometime after Jason
went to outer space and landed on earth in the future and sometime after Freddy
was finally killed off for the 7TH time (or thought to be),
Hollywood finally got down the business of having the two horror icons face
off. Freddy hasn’t killed in 10 years and most of
the kids on Elm Street are being force-fed “forget me” drugs. Because Freddy
feeds on fear he needs Jason to stir the fear pot. The only problem is Jason is
not the listening type (well not until 6 years later when his favorite victim
looks a lot like his mom circa 1980) and just can’t stop killing all the teens
on Elm Street. Anyway, Freddy gets jealous basically and decides to take Jason
down himself.
Pros, the fight scenes
in this film are pretty great between Freddy and Jason and for me made this
film worthy of both franchises. There is also some decent acting here and well-shot scenes. Unlike a lot of people, I also liked the fact that the movie went
into the histories of both Jason and Freddy.
Cons, unfortunately, I
CAN see where a lot of the hate for this flick comes from. The director is
faced with a huge huge challenge.
1) Nightmare on Elm Street had become a shadow of the scaries it started with. While all the comedic lines in a Friday the 13th film are delivered by the victims and cops who will become victims, all of the comedic lines in Nightmare on Elm Street are delivered by Freddy. So in the film, the obvious attempts at supposed humor like a Freddy worm smoking pot are not only un-funny they really don’t even fit in this thing.
2) During a lot of this movie you might be caught thinking, “Does Jason even get scared anymore?” If you take into account JASON GOES TO HELL (and you probably shouldn’t) JASON and FREDDY are in hell. They would never have been pen pals or whatever, but Jason would have been in the same predicament Freddy was (stuck in hell with no power essentially). If you don’t take into account JASON GOES TO HELL, then Jason may in fact just be a really really tough zombie who just needs a little magic or electricity to come back to life. In that case maybe just maybe he is worried about what Freddy has to say or show him. In the director's defense, both these series left anyone taking this project a lot of crap to sort through.
3) Evil doesn’t give a crap about evil which is why there are no parties in hell and all of that. So we can see why these two don’t get along, but Jason gets his freakin eyes stabbed out and still has little problem with finding teens or Freddy to throw down on. So again if both of them were in hell, why can Freddy scare Jason into coming back to life and not possess the power to bring himself back?
4) The narration. Tip for all horror directors. The bad guy doesn’t narrate. He doesn’t, end of story.
1) Nightmare on Elm Street had become a shadow of the scaries it started with. While all the comedic lines in a Friday the 13th film are delivered by the victims and cops who will become victims, all of the comedic lines in Nightmare on Elm Street are delivered by Freddy. So in the film, the obvious attempts at supposed humor like a Freddy worm smoking pot are not only un-funny they really don’t even fit in this thing.
2) During a lot of this movie you might be caught thinking, “Does Jason even get scared anymore?” If you take into account JASON GOES TO HELL (and you probably shouldn’t) JASON and FREDDY are in hell. They would never have been pen pals or whatever, but Jason would have been in the same predicament Freddy was (stuck in hell with no power essentially). If you don’t take into account JASON GOES TO HELL, then Jason may in fact just be a really really tough zombie who just needs a little magic or electricity to come back to life. In that case maybe just maybe he is worried about what Freddy has to say or show him. In the director's defense, both these series left anyone taking this project a lot of crap to sort through.
3) Evil doesn’t give a crap about evil which is why there are no parties in hell and all of that. So we can see why these two don’t get along, but Jason gets his freakin eyes stabbed out and still has little problem with finding teens or Freddy to throw down on. So again if both of them were in hell, why can Freddy scare Jason into coming back to life and not possess the power to bring himself back?
4) The narration. Tip for all horror directors. The bad guy doesn’t narrate. He doesn’t, end of story.
This is what I do know.
Had this movie come out in say 1993, I would have absolutely loved it. The
movie is not that bad, it just suffers from too many elements of the previous
films not even coming close to working out for the combo they were going for
here. This movie could have been done a thousand ways…and all of them would
have had a hole or two. For these reasons…
I give this movie a 4 out of 7 but fans of either series
should be pretty satisfied.
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