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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezA surprisingly ambitious entry into a genre that felt bankrupt and over more than a decade ago.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleConsidering 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.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisAttempts 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.
- 50Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachThe 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.
- 42Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldDoesn'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.
- 40L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe 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.
- 30SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThe 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.
- 30The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThis 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?
- 30Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanThe 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.
- 25Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaConnoisseurs 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.