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Freddy Vs. Jason

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 88 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Damian Shannon
Mark Swift
Wes Craven (characters)
Victor Miller (characters)
Directed by: Ronny Yu
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 15, 2003
DVD: January 13, 2004
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive strong horror violence/gore, gruesome images, sexuality, drug use and language
Starring Robert Englund, Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Jason Ritter, James Callahan, Ken Kirzinger, Lochlyn Munro, and Joshua Mihal
Get ready for the ultimate showdown! Freddy Krueger, the psychopath from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series resurrects Jason Voorhees, the equally iconic madman from the "Friday the 13th" film series. With a terrified town in the middle, the two titans of terror enter into a horrifying showdown of epic proportions, alternating between the world of dreams and the harsh reality of the living world. Who will win and who will lose in this battle to end all battles? (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
To the fan of 80s slashers, this return to glorious excess is a beautiful thing.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Staff (Not credited)
So can Freddy beat up Jason, or what? Let's just say that neither one would have stood a chance against Abbott and Costello.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Succeeds as a guilty pleasure, a monster mash that clobbers the recent lackluster sequels plaguing both legacies. If only that were a higher compliment.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A surprisingly ambitious entry into a genre that felt bankrupt and over more than a decade ago.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Are these iconic, antihero relics smartly satirized in a post-slasher, or is FVJ just more dated, third-wave trash? Disappointingly, it's the latter.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though a stickler might ask what's at stake in a fight to the death between two guys who are already dead, the hard-core fans aren't likely to be disappointed.
Read Full Review >Variety Andy Klein
The basic formula of iconic supernatural beings slaughtering plucky teenagers continues with even more graphic violence.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Tremendous energy, outrageous humor, dazzling technical finesse -- and a numbing amount of violence, brutality, bloodshed and all-out savagery. It is downright depressing to think about all that vigorous cinematic artistry and expertise aimed so low.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Attempts none of the witty, provocative visual and metaphysical set pieces from any of the ''Nightmare'' movies. And it offers none of the real fright of the early ''Friday the 13th'' films. In fact, the movie is deeply, proudly unimaginative.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Considering what the filmmakers had to work with, and the fact that it has all been done before, Freddy Vs. Jason isn't bad. And sometimes not bad is almost good.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The setup is bad even by slasher-film standards: poorly acted, atrociously written and unimaginatively directed. But once Freddy and Jason have at it, the movie takes on a recklessly kinetic energy that finally delivers on its title's promise.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Truth be told, the movie isn't among the worst sequels of this summer.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The best way to sum up Freddy Vs. Jason is: good concept, mediocre execution.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Doesn't have any of the creepy suspense that graced the first "Friday" movies, and very little of the Daliesque dream imagery of the early "Nightmares." It's just a slam-bang succession of gross-out mutilations, played for giggles.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
The sentimental novelty of watching two childhood antiheroes have at it dissipates once you realize the lugubrious lengths to which the screenplay must go in order to make that happen.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Brian Thomas
This long-awaited monster mash should satisfy fans of the "Friday the 13th/A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchises.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
Despite oblique references to "Psycho" and "Children of the Corn," Freddy vs. Jason lacks the knowing wit needed to keep it afloat in an age when even the horror spoofs have been spoofed.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Since there can be no suspense, the point is to enjoy the hewing of limbs and the severing of necks, to delight in chopped-off fingers and gouged-out eyes. The title characters are embodiments of utter evil, right?
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Aside from a promising scene involving a cornfield rave and the pyrotechnic potential for grain alcohol, it drags along, taking a small eternity to set up a final showdown that plays more like a bloody pro-wrestling event than the stuff of nightmares.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
This dumb, only intermittently (though sometimes even intentionally) funny sequel presumes that since almost everything else from the 1980's has come back, why not the cynosures of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" movies?
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
The first "Nightmare on Elm Street" was wickedly surreal, but the wacky dream sequences were offset by the sitcomlike, almost satirical flatness of ordinary suburban life; that was the really scary part. Freddy Vs. Jason is innocent of such nuances.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The Hong Kong vet director, Ronny Yu, did a bang-up job in 1998 with "Bride of Chucky," but he can't do much for this one except keep it moving, light it scarily, and pump that plasma.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Paul Farhi
A kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both sides.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Connoisseurs of giant, gnarled chunks of charred flesh, rejoice! There's plenty of it -- or stuff resembling it -- in the slasher-fest convergence of two killer franchises.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Formulaic hodge-podge that trades on a certain demographic's affection for the bogeymen of their formative years.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Witless, excessive and ultimately boring gore-a-thon.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
About as threadbare as a favorite childhood plushy. What's more, trying to keep the story line of strained meta-sequel Freddy Vs. Jason straight requires too much of a cogitative investment.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 88 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Andrew G gave it a3:
Though shoin some promise, offering few thrills, Freddy vs. Jason unfortunately becomes unrealistic, predictable and formulaic, with performances by much of the cast quite poor. Reverts to the usual horror cliches.
K M gave it a10:
Love this movie. More action than horror and I'm pretty sure it was never meant to be scary, just an awesome movie where horror icons battle it out. VERY ENTERTAINING.
David gave it a3:
Apparently it doesn't take much to be considered a great horror movie by general audiences now.
Riren gave it an8:
It's hard to write about this movie because it's hard to imagine adults discussing it. We have here a long guilty pleasure of a movie, from two series of horror films that have long since become about bodycount and the form of murder. It doesn't quite deliver (it makes the same old mistake of focusing on its poorly-acted heroes, who the audience only wants to see be disemboweled), but if you're a fan of both series, it's a blast to see the titans go at it. A good part of the movie is devoted to Jason and Freddy actually competing for bodycount. A rave gets turned into a massacre. America's fondness for medicating its children even gets the finger here.
R D. gave it a10:
Very fast and entertaining. Too gory but the Freddy and Jason battle rocks.
Gerrick C. gave it an8:
This movie is about as ruthless as a horror movie can be, and then some. Freddy and Jason go at it to see who is the better iconic terror and the way it turns out is somewhat obvious during the last two minutes of the movie. This movie is extremely violent and dark. During the movie there are flashes of reality and things that Freddy uses to scare the heck out of some people in their dreams. Jason is the stoic killer and plays the part of a deranged maniac to a tee. The movie sure wasn't the best, but it certainly wasn't one of the worst.
Robert O. gave it a10:
This movie is one of my guilty pleasures. I am a true night owl and this movie has been on Encore the past couple of months. It is an absolutely horrendously bad movie, but the action sequences between Jason and Freddy are absolutely epic. Throw in a ton of gratuitous blood and Hong Kong style wire-fighting special effects, and you have one entertaining. I love this movie with all of my heart and soul, and have seen it at least a half-dozen times. Call me sick, but to me this movie is a triumphant masterpiece.
