Movie Review for Freddy vs. Jason

Summary: Freddy Krueger is in hell--literally. It’s been nearly ten years since Krueger invaded peoples’ dreams to exact his deadly form of revenge and murder. But now, his memory has been systematically erased by a town determined to put an end to Freddy once and for all. Potential victims have been drugged to prevent them from dreaming, rendering impotent the master of nightmares They’ve eliminated their fear of Freddy, absolute torture for an egomaniac psychopath who’s a legend in his own mind. Like an inmate with a life sentence, Freddy’s been reduced to plotting a fantastic revenge that will never happen. Until, that is, Freddy resurrects Jason Voorhees, the equally iconic madman and the perfect means for Freddy to once again instill fear on Elm Street, creating a window of opportunity for him to emerge from his purgatory. Recognizing how easily manipulated Jason is, Freddy tricks Voorhees into journeying to Springwood to start a new reign of terror.

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            In the battle between Freddy and Jason, it’s the audience who loses.

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            Like the later chapters in both of these seemingly endless movie series, it all seems just a bit ...

By Jamie Russell of BBC (7/0)
            A dumb, but occasionally fun, attempt to squeeze some fresh blood out of two of horror's longest-...

By Robert K. Elder of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Freddy vs. Jason succeeds as a guilty pleasure.

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            On its own "10 years past expiration date" level, it’s good fun.

By Peter Sobczynski of Critic Doctor (7/0)
            Freddy vs. Jason has a fun, junky spirit to it that is compulsively watchable and when looked at ...

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By Brian Mckay of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            The gory money shots and the big brawl are the only real entertainment - although the effective o...

By Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            The best bits do eventually overshadow the interminable slow spots, and I'd certainly never be on...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            There are far less lively ways to spend a night at the movies.

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            If you ever saw and enjoyed a Freddy or Jason film, this should be a bloody, grotesque delight.

By Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (7/0)
            Wittier than your average horror movie, smarter than your average horror movie, and much stranger...

By Ethan Alter of Film Journal International (7/0)
            For most moviegoers, Freddy vs. Jason will be entirely unwatchable. And yet, it’s probably the be...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Jimmy O of Film Snobs (7/0)
            A film that is proficient with its action, cheeky with its humor, and a story that knows the rule...

By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            Once they cut to the chase (literally) and start brawling, we get our money’s worth.

By Susan Michals of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            Sure, it seems ridiculous. And outlandish. And maybe even silly. But it works.

By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            Freddy vs. Jason is absolutely critic-proof: firewalled, fortified and dug in like an Alabama tic...

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (7/0)
            There is enough hacking, slashing, blood, and guts for three more Jason movies in this battle.

By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. of Goatdog's Movies (7/0)
            A little less Cliffs notes in the first half, a few more inventive battle scenes between our two ...

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By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
            If you're into that sort of thing, see it.

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            A movie in search of a plot, it's is little more than a random collection of clichéd horror momen...

By JoBlo of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (7/0)
            I expected more humor, more fun, more action and ultimately, more scares and terror between the t...

By Alex Sandell of Juicy Cerebellum (7/0)
            I dare you not to have fun watching Freddy Vs. Jason. It’s the most entertaining film of the sum...

By Shawn Bowers of Kansas City Star (7/0)
            Horror-ifically bad.

By Blake Davis of KFOR Channel 4 News (7/0)
            Played for laughs, the two horror icons have been castrated. No longer scary, they're like a Las ...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Austin O'Connor of Lowell Sun (7/0)
            Let the great, dumb, pointless debate rage on.

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            Freddy Vs. Jason is a horror film for people who don't necessarily hate the genre in general but ...

By Mike Bracken of Mike Bracken's Horror Films (7/0)
            Freddy Vs. Jason: Hey, it's better than Gigli!

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            If you like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing you'll like -- even if it's finall...

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (7/0)
            ...[a] chintzy chill session...what you’re gaining are front row seats to a couple of carousing c...

By Anton Bitel of Movie Gazette (7/0)
            the usual assortment of harried kids, hopeless cops, inadequate parents, creepy dream sequences a...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Ryan Cracknell of Movie Views (7/0)
            If you can convince a theatre manager or lowly high school corn monkey to let you into the final ...

By Kevin A. Ranson of MovieCrypt.com (7/0)
            Get your freaks on.

By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
            More than anything else, Freddy vs. Jason is an opportunity to wear that black tee shirt I save f...

By Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
            It’s a Nightmare on Elm Street movie as badly written and performed as a Friday the 13th movie.

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            While Krueger and Voorhees may be the combatants here, it's the viewer who loses.

By Mike Sage of Peterborough This Week (7/0)
            Sure the film marks the downfall of cultured civilization as we know it—let’s face it, we’re a ho...

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By Dawn Taylor of Portland Tribune (7/0)
            Freddy's incessant wisecracks are so lame and Jason's stolid invulnerability so uninteresting tha...

By Andrew Manning of Radio Free Entertainment (7/0)
            A solid, entertaining bloodbath that will appease most fans of the genre.

By Sarah Chauncey of Reel.com (7/0)
            The biggest surprise about Freddy vs. Jason is that it's just plain boring.

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            a showdown that's like an extreme WWF smackdown for the ghoulish set

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            Good concept, mediocre execution.

By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            Director Ronnie Yu knows exactly what's expected of him; he keeps the blood flowing and doesn't d...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Just a slam-bang succession of gross-out mutilations, played for giggles.

By Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            More clever than your average Friday the 13th but certainly not as meta as any Nightmare on Elm S...

By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            For the first time since Scream, the slasher genre shows signs of life (was that in poor taste?).

By Nick Rogers of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (7/0)
            That the anti-climactic finish was withheld from advance reviewers to save the surprise is short ...

By John Venable of Supercala.com (7/0)
            Freddy tends to the laughs, Jason takes care of the body count, and the result is great fun!

By Tony Toscano of Talking Pictures (U.S.) (7/0)
            ...people are cut in two, heads severed off and body parts go flying like a steak dinner at your ...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            A far-better-than-expected, late summer thrill ride...Better than any of the other ten Friday the...

By Audrey Rock-Richardson of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (7/0)
            Unfortunately, I have to ask: Did it really take ten years to come up with this?

By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            A formulaic hodge-podge that trades on a certain demographic's affection for the bogeymen of thei...

By Ian Waldron-Mantgani of UK Critic (7/0)
            Misses the chance of actually being a good movie, but it feels energetic and colourful.

By Mike Clark of USA Today (7/0)
            Though not exactly John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, star-power m...

By Jeffrey Chen of Window to the Movies (7/0)
            If you must make a movie combining two series at which most people would turn up their noses, mak...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            At the rowdy preview I attended, Jason emerged as the crowd favorite. Apparently, moviegoers iden...

By Fred Topel of About.com (3/4) No reference
            Reflecting on nude scenes of the ‘80s entries...there was a lot less silicone back then.The two i...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
            The fight is really cool when it finally comes, but it takes an hour and change to get through th...

By James Hill of BET.com (3/4) No reference
            It's stupid and slightly insulting to those with more than two brain cells to rub together, but d...

By Ray Greene of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            A feast for hardcore fans of either character, and likely to bring a new generation of gorehounds...

By Bryan Reesman of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
            While the filmmakers send up the genre's cliches and expected audience empathy with the villains,...

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By Robert Denerstein of Denver Rocky Mountain News (3/4) No reference
            Devoid of any horror resonance, the movie treats death the way porn movies treat sex, as a subjec...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
            Takes itself much too seriously and wastes several opportunities for dark-comic bits.

By David Foucher of EDGE Boston (6/1) No reference
            "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" fans... you are going to LOVE this one...

By Jake Euker of F5 (Wichita, KS) (6/1) No reference
            Exists in a place beyond criticism. It hasn't got a plot to speak of, or characters; like the rec...

By Staci Layne Wilson of Fantastica Daily (3/4) No reference
            When the dust settles in the final battle of Freddy vs. Jason, it's the audience that loses.

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (3/4) No reference
            Offers the curiously heady equation of its titular bogeys to some sort of modern holy pantheon.

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By David Grove of Film Threat (3/4) No reference
            The film delivers.

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (3/4) No reference
            [Can] one... actually tell the difference between a slasher flick that’s intentionally parodying ...

By Guylaine Cadorette of Hollywood.com (3/4) No reference
            Seeing the two horror icons come together for an ultimate showdown is definitely fun to watch, bu...

By Liz Braun of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            Huge, super-gory, cash-grabbing, badly written, highly stupid crap.

By Louis B. Hobson of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
             Freddy vs Jason is a hoot and a howl but don't expect a rematch.

By James Sanford of James Sanford on Film (6/1) No reference
            prototypical teen slasher fare, with ultra-gory deaths, overwrought performances and even some gr...

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By Loey Lockerby of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            Despite the slow spots, there's a sense of fun, which goes into overdrive when the big fight star...

By Danny Minton of KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (3/4) No reference
            This film was stupid, violent, gory, and just plain bad (and I kinda liked it).

By Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
            Does a decent job of making like the 1980s never ended.

By Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (3/4) No reference
            Anyone at a fan convention will tell you that Freddy vs. Jason had the potential to be a horror c...

By John Larsen of Light Views (3/4) No reference
            "Freddy Versus Jason" isn't about acting but reaction, and the cast is more than up to the challe...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            One big joke.

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Jackie Loohauis of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (6/1) No reference
            A film with virtually no plot, no humor and no acting talent.

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Pitting the bad guys against each other merely recycles all the shtick we've seen before.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (6/1) No reference
            Other than Freddy, there are no memorable performances, just interchangeable busty, pouty-lipped ...

By James Rocchi of Netflix (3/4) No reference
            Monster-on-monster horror flick is a gory, goofy guilty pleasure far better than the money-monger...

By Bob Campbell of Newark Star-Ledger (3/4) No reference
            Will satisfy the hordes who've awaited this heavyweight matchup for a decade.

By John Anderson of Newsday (3/4) No reference
            Fans of the two series will laugh, because the genre is so squarely skewered. Others will wonder ...

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Jay Boyar of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            Unlike, say, the Scream movies, which playfully tweaked the conventions of the slasher sub-genre,...

By Steve Schneider of Orlando Weekly (3/4) No reference
            What's on view here is usually less than the sum of its parts.

By Wesley Lovell of Oscar Guy (3/4) No reference
            Freddy and Jason give the audience one hell of a fight in the latest attempt to revitalize the sl...

By Louis-Jérôme Cloutier of Panorama (3/4) No reference
            L’utilisation presque exagérée de la violence rehausse la qualité du film et l’ensemble est telle...

By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (3/4) No reference
            After more than a decade of brainstorming, here's what New Line has: Freddy and Jason stage a con...

By Joe Baltake of Sacramento Bee (6/1) No reference
            The expression 'bloody bore' takes on a new, deeper meaning with Freddy Vs. Jason.

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (3/4) No reference
            it's an unsatisfying fight, since Krueger has to compete in a higher weight class and at a lower ...

By Jerry McCormick of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
            You'll cringe in horror at the stinkfest on screen.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of San Francisco Examiner (3/4) No reference
            Call it nostalgia, but there's something strangely entertaining, even comforting, about these mov...

By Mark Rahner of Seattle Times (3/4) No reference
            Who wins? Without telling, I can say it's almost irrelevant. Buy a ticket and you lose.

By Gerry Shamray of Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (6/1) No reference
            With two unkillable foes, this battle feels superfluous. There are a few clever moves, but this f...

By Josh Larsen of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (3/4) No reference
            A tortured, ludicrous storyline brings the two figures together...

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By Paul Salfen of Supercala.com (3/4) No reference
            Maybe I missed out on the keg party that took place before our screening, but this flick's appeal...

By Annette Dasey of Teletext (3/4) No reference
            One of the few class lines is delivered by a stoner: "That goalie was pissed about something". No...

By Jonathan R. Perry of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/4) No reference
            Applying 'criticism' to 'Freddy vs. Jason' isn’t just tedious — it’s pointless.

By Paul Farhi of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
            This corpse defies reanimation.

By Michael Szymanski of Zap2it.com (6/1) No reference
            Bringing the two together means a dumbing-down of Freddy and a bit of a sophisticated elevation o...

By Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (6/1) Not Reachable
            A battle royal so cheesily ludicrous that it ends literally with a wink.

                         Reviews of Freddy vs. Jason
By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (6/1) Not Reachable
            Anyone weaned on these movies -- which is to say, pretty much anyone who grew up during the 1980s...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) Not Reachable
            Has doses of irreverent humor and a few inventive ways of slicing and dicing victims.

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