Good honest family fun
It's cheesy, it's stupid but it's entertaining. I watched all the Nightmare on Elm Streets and Friday the 13ths right before this and I can say this is better than half of those movies.
Pure fanservice, for all the others it might be just another Slasher Z Movie
"Who cares about some fucking dream guy, okay? That psycho in a hockey mask was real."
If you like both franchises, this is pure fanservice. This one's a teen slasher, totally camp and lots of dumb fun once again. Not much of a story but it's everything you're here for; pure entertainment throughout, lots of fun bloody kills and the right amount of Freddy and Jason presence.
The teen characters are empty shells but they're at least comical and entertaining. Very bad acting, dialogue and horrible special effects at times though. Except for that the movie looks freakin good in general. Great dream sequences and kills visuals.
Freddy's face makeup/mask looks like one of those strawberry grid pastries and the parts where he's talking to himself were really cringey. Jason got the best kills overall and the best moments, he was litterally on fire! Those fire scenes with Jason were my favorite parts of the movie until the absolutely epic Freddy vs. Jason X-Men fight(s). It was everything I hoped for and more. So much fun and laughs! And they somehow managed to incorporate the humans without them getting in the way. Awesome ending.
I've only seen the first Friday the 13th very long ago so I can't really compare the franchise with this movie but after binging the whole A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise... i'm sorry but Freddy vs. Jason is superior to every one of those movies!
While not a bad horror movie per se, it certainly isn't a great one, either! While it is not as bad as one would think, it certainly has its fair share of cheesy lines, lousy acting and some of the special effects are not that good (but again, it could have been way worse!).
The thing I did like the least about the movie was its predictability and that it was not scary at all! It is more of an action and slasher movie than a horror flick which is a shame IMHO. I do not regret having watched it, but I most certainly won't watch it a second time! If you want some Freddy Kruger I can only suggest to watch the original and regarding Jason... well... I think I'm never going to like the series: I didn't like the first (which according to fans is the best) and the second Jason movie and Freddy VS Jason has not helped, either!
Watched this one as a semi-commitment to "watch every single Friday the 13th movie" and yes, it's taken awhile... There are only so many of these that a normal human being can stomach in a short span of time, so yes, it's been a bit since I watched Jason X but I can now mark this one off my list. As far as films go, I have mixed feelings about this one...VERY mixed feelings. Parts of it were gruesomely good; the kills were excellent and beautifully gory so I was impressed with that part. The flip side, however, is that Freddy vs. Jason was exactly like every other 1980's teen horror/slasher flick: full of stupid teen drama (and acting) that was bad enough to make you wonder if it was really worth it. (Hint: It wasn't.) The teen drama, the utterly horrible acting (and I don't mean "melodramatic" as you see in some teen films, but just the complete lack of talent), the script/dialogue in so many scenes...just YUCK. I love a good horror film but man these 1980's teen scream movies were just putrid. And that hasn't changed. (FWIW, I was a high school senior in the 1980's so I can appreciate the "teen" aspect of these films. They still suck, though. They just didn't suck as bad back then.) There were parts of the film that were actually humorous, and some that tried too hard; the whole "Jason in a pinball machine" was so ridiculous...I mean, there's "cheesy" and then there's infantile ridiculous; this was the latter. But there were some bits that were actually humorous and had me chuckling. So overall, it was just a mixed bag of stupid and violence. There's the bottom line. Choose wisely whether you want to sit through this one; although it's not as awful as some of the Friday the 13th films (by a long shot), it's certainly not the best and it's not really a very good film at all. The storyline is so goofy that you simply have to disengage your brain for an hour and a half (the last seven minutes are credits and there's no "after-the-credits-surprise" to waste your time waiting on) and choose to sit through this mess. This isn't one of those "Man I wish I could get that 97 minutes of my life back" but it IS a "That's definitely an hour and a half I won't ever give up again." It was fun, gory, and teen-hormone-drama-stupid thrown into a blender and the smelly mess is what you wind up with.
This was fun as hell
how did jason manage to look at lori in the final scene since freddy destroyed his eyes?!!!!!!!!! so confusing
Both franchises come to a pitch-perfect crescendo. Character designs are excellent, the plot is as dense as it is ridiculous, and the kills are fun. If you don't love this movie, you're a boomer.
As expected, a pretty bad movie. Right from the start I’ve noticed something weird about this film, it feels like it’s been running on 2x speed. Super accelerated, yet nothing really happens.
Terrible soundtrack choice. That heavy metal score doesn’t fit at all with the movie we’re seeing.
Bad acting and bad characters. I was hoping so hard that everyone would be butchered by both Jason and Freddy, if possible. Lori, just die, please. She just reminds me of the good Laurie, Jamie Lee Curtis.
I did not really understand where the hell Lori got the conclusion that Freddy’s weakness is fire and Jason’s is water. So random. Doesn’t even make sense, although Jason has drowned in his films countless times before this one he never showed any sign that he’s afraid of the water. Besides, Jason wasn’t really sleeping, he was sedated. You don’t dream while sedated, you just black out. At least I think so.
The moment where Jason is on fire while killing people in a party in a cornfield is cool.
I suppose the final act where we finally get Freddy vs Jason fight is decent, kind of.
The movie is terrible. It’s only worth watching this so you can see these two iconic horror characters in the same plot.
At this point, who really cares about continuity, I guess. Jason's survived being blown to bits by a SWAT team, boiled in toxic waste, drug to hell by demons and disintegrated in the atmosphere. Freddy's been crushed, impaled, pipe bombed, stripped of his powers and forgotten. It isn't the first time we've set aside preceding stories for the sake of the next one, and in this case it's given a pass for the sake of a titular clash of legends. Only they don't actually clash until the final twenty minutes, and even then it's a bit underwhelming. Their heavyweight brawls deliver a few brief moments of awesome, but there's always something restraining these monsters, holding them back from really cutting loose, and the big climax is predictably open-ended.
In keeping with both franchises, most of our story revolves around a tribe of empty-minded teens. Slowly, prophetically unraveling the plot, their numbers are whittled down until a pair of strong-willed survivors finally decide to fight back. The greater saga is a bit over-reaching, introducing and abandoning several pointless subplots, but it does a fair enough job of intertwining two distinct franchises and granting legitimate reasons for Freddy and Jason to cooperate and, later, clash.
It's trashy fun, loaded up with fan service and gruesome killings. Big and dumb and cringe-worthy, spiritually compatible with both legacies, and basically all it needed to be. I've seen much worse.
mostly bad but the last half hour makes it worth watchin
Film 150 (Goal: 300) of 2024:
Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why do I keep giving these franchises that are well past their prime a chance? Heck, I was never really a huge fan of the original few Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street films. They're okay at best. But both franchises, several films deep in by this point, are well past their best - and Freddy vs. Jason is just another reminder of this.
The film brings together the two iconic characters. A weakened Freddy awakens Jason to stir up fear and grow his powers so that he may return and kill again. When Jason begins to fight back against this control, the two eventually come together to fight it out.
Freddy vs. Jason is a film of a particular time. Muted tones, nu-metal soundtrack, poor and ill advised use of CGI, sped up shots and to counter that, extensive slow motion. There's a random attempted rape scene, in a cornfield rave (yes, that sentence is correct), that feels unnecessary and poorly decided upon. But that scene brings out perhaps the best moments in the film, the flaming Jason. Freddy has some decent moments in his dreamscape but it never feels new or innovative, which a film like this should be aiming for.
Freddy vs. Jason is a tired film 20 years on from it's arrival. And while being a landmark moment for fans of both franchises, it ultimately leads to nothing significant or memorable.
"Oh, God, y'all, two killers? We're not safe awake or asleep."
Just when the franchises for both of these characters were either dying or already done, they bring them back for some fun. When I say fun, I do mean fun, because while the story isn’t great, they tried to go all out for it. The concept is cool, just wish it wasn’t an early 2000’s cash grab.
More Freddy & Jason than Freddy vs Jason but still a good movie if u r a fine of Elm & Friday
8/10
Two of the biggest horror icons rumble in a no-holds-barred grudge match in Freddy vs. Jason. After losing his dream powers Freddy Krueger resurrects Jason Voorhees to go to Springwood to rein terror; but when Jason gets too greedy Freddy has to take back control. The storytelling is fairly good, and finds an interesting way to bring the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series together. Some of the acting is weak, but it’s adequate for what it needs to do. Freddy vs. Jason delivers the ultimate horror fan matchup, and is everything that it promises to be.
Bigger budget, better effects and an all out silly plot. Pretty good really and certainly enjoyable for both franchises!
How can Hypnocil not be approved (or forbidden) if it was already developed 1987.
I mean a 16 year long drug trial? What drugs is their FDA on?
A goofy yet sort of well made attempt to bring Freddy and Jason together. While it's actually better than some of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels and Friday the 13th sequels.
There’s some actually creepy moments.
Shout by josh19838BlockedParentSpoilers2013-04-12T02:47:16Z
Great movie. Hell of a way to bring two horror icons together. I was hoping they would make a sequel. Seeing as neither died at the end.