Grade:  C+

Director:  Ronny Yu		Released:  August 2003
Writer:  David S. Goyer, Wes Craven		MPAA Rating:  R
Players:  Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Jason Ritter		Running time:  97 minutes

Ratings System

The first thing to understand is that Freddy vs. Jason is actually a comedy.  This movie exists only for the cool factor, the nostalgia factor, and the laughter factor.  Is it cool?  At times.  Is it nostalgic?  At times.  Are there laughs?  At times.  There are enough of each of those things to make it entertaining.

Personally, I'm mostly interested in the nostalgia factor: the film begins with some new Freddy clips mixed in with clips from the old movies.  The jump-roping girls singing the Freddy song are here.  There's more than one shot that duplicates a shot from the earlier films (Freddy holding the mom's head for one).  And of course Crystal Lake plays into the story, Jason's old stomping grounds.  Admittedly, I'm more of a Freddy guy, so I'm much more familiar with his movies than Jason's.

When are horror movies going to start hiring porn stars to act in them?  They already hire big breasted girls who can't act, why not take that next logical step and hire the big breasted girl who can't act and is willing to get naked too?  It's frustrating to see an actress whose rack is featured through the whole film, but never shown in its natural state.  One actress who does get naked in this film isn't even her, it's clearly a body double.

I didn't care for Freddy's makeup in this movie.  It looks too much like a rubber mask.  I prefer the original look of Freddy where his burns seem more fresh and gooey.  And I did not like the teeth they gave him at all.  They look pointed, like demon's teeth, it's not the right look for Freddy in my opinion.  Jason looked like Jason, the director seemed to have a fondness for the wisp of hair coming down the side of his head.

As for the main attraction, Freddy and Jason have a battle royale with cheese.  It's good fun to watch the two of them go at it, hacking and slashing away.  Mere mortals don't stand a chance if they are in the vicinity of either of them, and the tradition of creative and bloody deaths lives on.

- crocoPuffs