Director:  Jack Sholder		Released:  November 1985
Writer:  David Chaskin		MPAA Rating:  R
Players:  Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers		Running time:  87 minutes

This sequel was made by a whole different team than the original.  Different cast, different writer, different director.  Thank goodness Englund came back as Freddy, I can only imagine what would have happened to this franchise if they had gotten another actor to play Freddy.  To put it bluntly, it would have sucked donkey eggs (they should have stopped this series after the 4th movie, anyway).

However, I think the all-new crew did a pretty good job.  This one isn't as beloved to me as the original, nor as entertaining as the 3rd, but as a Freddy movie, it's the under-rated step-child of the series.  The makeup and effects are excellent, surpassing the original in some cases.  And the tone of the movie is much closer to the original than the cartoons that were to follow.  Freddy was still a bad-ass, not a comedian wearing clown-shoes.  However, I have to say that I'm not really sure why Freddy would want to take over a teenagers body.  I thought his whole gig was to kill the kids of the people who killed him, why would he want to become one of those kids?  The plot isn't perfect, but it's also not as horrible as some would have you believe.

- crocoPuffs

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