Versus battles are always fun to think about as it's never not going to be fun thinking about which character would beat who in a fight and with there being a ton of horror icons out there it only made sense that one of those battles feature two of the biggest horror icons from the eighties. With this battle being one that has been wanted by the people who love these characters since the late eighties and well then in 2002 we got exactly that and so then join me as I review the film that was the last time that horror iconic Robert Englund appeared as Freddy Krueger in a film with the film in question being called simply just "Freddy Vs. Jason" enjoy.
The plot of this film after years of being fed up of being forgotten about by the people of Elm Street Freddy Krueger resurrects Jason Voorhees to start killing teens on Elm Street and with a bunch of teens caught in the middle it's only a matter of time before these two titans of terror set there sights on each other. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as they dud a good job of setting up why these two slasher villains want to fight each other in a way that does feel true to both of there characters but at the same time tho this films plot doesn't really do any of them justice as it just feels like a by the numbers plot from one of the latter A Nightmare On Elm Street sequels then it does something that makes us excited to see play out regardless of if either Freddy or Jason are on screen or not and while the main focus of the film is rather understandably on both of those characters that doesn't mean that the plot of the film had to be weak as the makers of this film could and should have put alot more effort into giving a good plot regardless of either character is on screen or not and while the plot that we got wasn't that bad it also wasn't all that good either with the plot of the film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger , Ken Kirzinger as Jason Voorhees and Monica Keena as Lori Campbell. Also starring in this film is Kelly Rowland as Kia Waterson , Jason Ritter as Will Rollins , Chris Marquette as Charlie Linderman , Lochlyn Munro as Deputy Scott Stubbs , Katharine Isabelle as Gibb Smith , Brendan Fletcher as Mark Davis , Zack Ward as Bobby Davis , Kyle Labine as Bill Freeburg , Chris Gauthier as Shack , David Kopp as Blake , Jesse Hutch as Trey Cooper , Tom Butler as Dr. Campbell , Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins star Garry Chalk as Sheriff Williams and Paula Shaw as Pamela Voorhees.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances which given that alot of them aren't that really well known is kind of surprising but in a good way as you don't usually expect good performances from little to unknown actors and yet that's exactly what we got in this film and even Katharine Isabelle who we all know now to be this horror icon wasn't that well known when this film was first being released and yet she steals all of the scenes that she's in be it when she's being dramatic or when she has an over the top line delivery it's something that really does work for that character and while no one will ever be able to top Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees Ken Kirzinger is passable in the role as while he does lack the physicality that Hodder brought to the role he does have a slight menace about him that works for this film with the best actor in this whole entire film being of course Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger who is just simply a joy to watch in this film with this films acting really being not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be the in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
Doing the CGI for this film is Cinesite , Pixel Magic , Digital Dimension Entertainment Group , Asylum VFX , Digiscope and Yannix Technology Corporation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it does look decent in some places but yeah for alot of the time tho this films CGI does look really bad and hasn't really aged all that well granted it does look alot more better then the CGI that's in the A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010 remake but even that's not really saying all that much but to this films credit they do only use CGI to create things that you couldn't do practically like having Freddy's shadow grow and attack Blake near the start of the film or having Freddy transformed into a slug near the end of the film both of which are cases where CGI was needed because of the fact that there's no way that you could do either shot practically but at the same time tho it would have been nice if the film did have some practical effects that harkened back to those early films instead of relying so much on CGI that was always going to look dated where as if they went the practical route alot of the time it would have been seen as timeless and would really have added a timeless quality to the film as well and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film did add in extremely bad looking CGI that looked good for the time all it does is make this film seem really dated.
While this film does have the main villains from both A Nightmare On Elm Street ad Friday The 13th it's more of a continuation of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. As this film picks up pretty much where that film left off with it being reveled why we saw Freddy's glove at the end of that movie and while that might service the fandom for those movies those who like the Nightmare On Elm Street movies don't really get anything outside of a few clips being shown at the start and end of the movie and a few few nods and winks to A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and that's really it and heck to use wrestling terminology here the film presents Jason as the babyface of the film while Freddy Krueger is undoubtedly the heel of the film while yes Jason does do alot more of the killing then Freddy does it's done in service of Freddy and not because of the fact that it's something that he wants to do and if the film wanted to have both characters be on equal footing which is something that they really should have done then they should have had both characters get an equal amount of kills before turning there sights on each other and not have Freddy get alot less kills then Jason as all that does is make it look like that the makers of this film were favoring Jason when both killers should have been treated equally and have the same amount of threat and kills as each other and yet because they don't it makes Freddy look less effective and Jason look more effective when it comes to getting more kills in this film which is something that makes alot of sense when you take into account that long time Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham is also a producer on this movie.
Incase any of you are wondering if this film effects the continuity of either film it really doesn't with it being made clear as day that this film ignores the events of Jason X and ignores the events of Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Which basically means that Jason isn't going into outer space any time soon and while Freddy does talk to the camera alot in this movie he doesn't do anything other then that which to be honest might be for the best as if you tried to incorporate everything from both films and try to fit this film into the continuity of both films as well then you end up with a film that would be a complete and total mess where as here since all there doing is ignoring the events of two movies it does kind of streamline the continuity a little bit and make it easier for none fans of either character to follow along with and choose who they want to win in the end as well and while yes it would have been nice to see them use characters from either film outside of the main killers and Pamela Voorhees that might be pushing it a bit to much not only for the people who didn't grow up with these movies but also for the people who don't usually watch slasher of even horror movies for that matter but are only watching this film because of the fact that the hype for this movie was so good and it's those people that the makers do have to think about as well which is a shame as picturing Tommy Jarvis talking to either Nancy or Alice is more then enough to get die hard horror fans excited about seeing this movie but rather understandably this film is set with in it's timeline with only a few things from either franchise being carried over.
What does let this film is the fact that the main characters just aren't that interesting as all of them feel more like characters that would only work on a teen drama. With this films characters also just screaming 2000's horror as these are the kinds of characters that you would find in alot of horror films from around the time that this film was being released with none of them having nothing that makes them all that interesting and while on paper Lori as the main character should work as she does have alot going for her given the fact that Freddy did kill her mum in the past it's that very thing that makes no sense as Freddy should have been so weak that we he wouldn't be able to kill anyone something that we saw in this film but nope apparently he was able to kill this one person's mother instead of doing smart like going after Alice or his own daughter for that matter with Lori as a character not really working because of the fact that the makers of the film give her no personality where as if you look at say Kristen or Alice or even Nancy for that matter they all have clear cut personalities that work well enough not only for the films in which they appear in but for there respective characters as well where as Lori along with all of her friends have no personality and therefor what could have been a really cool protagonist for this film instead comes of as being someone who is trying to hard to be really cool and like Nancy when she should have been more focused on just being a really good character in the first place.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one four and thirty seven minuets and sixteen seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for both the A Nightmare On Elm Street and the Friday The 13th films as well with this film having just the right amount of plot there to really cover this amount of running time however tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as instead of developing it's plot and characters to the point where we as an audience actually like the characters and want to see them survive the film the makers of this film instead give alot of there attention to both Freddy and Jason which again is something that does make alot of sense as it's there names in the title of the movie and it's them that the audience is going to see however tho at the same time without a good plot and good supporting characters it really doesn't matter how well done those two characters are because of the fact that the audience just won't care and if the audience doesn't care then you've already lost the battle because in order for not only this film but alot of horror films to work you have to care as much about the protagonist as you do about the villain and while we the audience have several other films to form a connection to both Freddy and Jason with these new characters we only have this one film and if you can't make us care about them then why should we care about the rest of the film as at that point all we're left doing is waiting for a bunch of a characters that we don't care about to get killed of so that the characters that we do care about and want to see more off can take centre stage but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As both Freddy and Jason do get some really good kills in in this film but oddly enough it's Jason that gets more kills when it's something that should have been alot more evenly split as this would make both killers more effective and while the two kills that Freddy Mark Davis and Bill Freeburg are some decent kills there not going to top the great kills that Jason has just because of the fact that Jason has alot more kills in this film then what Freddy does and while Freddy does have alot more off screen kills none of those kills are any good as there off screen or are only mentioned and never actually seen with the best kill in the whole entire movie being a three way tie between the Trey death scene where Jason not only stabs him at the very least two dozen times but then folds up the bed that he lying on with him still on it , the raver scene where Jason kills several people including an unconscious Gibb who was about to be killed by Freddy or the final fight between Freddy and Jason does play out alot like a a no disqualification wrestling match and to be frank any of those kills could rightfully make the claim of being the best kill in this movie as all of three of them are just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this movie is a decent send off film for actor Robert Englund it's also not the best send off for his version of the Freddy Krueger character as the film doesn't do the character any kind of justice but at the same time tho it is a film that gives you exactly what you've came to see and isn't afraid of being exactly what it is and that's being nothing more then a dumb horror film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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