In 7 words or less: You guessed it... Freddy's back... Yawn.Best bits? Again, much like Dream Master, this is basically a steaming pile of turd with some hidden gems buried inside. Can you be bothered to go trawling through? That is the question. If you do, you'll surely laugh till your much loved Dr Pepper comes shooting out of your nose (I can actually recommend Sainsbury's own brand Dr Pop as a great Pepper alternative. It comes in at 66p and has the aroma/taste of those fizzy cherries you get at the cinema pic n mix. Top stuff) at scenes such as Freddy morphing into a hell spawned motorbike and the near end scene where the environment changes to one of those staircase optical illusions and all the characters are running around chasing each
other replete with warner bros cartoon chase music. The creme-de-la-creme though is the bit where we see a non-corpreal Freddy impart dead souls into Alice's unborn baby via her umbilical cord. Wow. this takes crazy-weird to a whole new level. (Once again the posters are great. here we have the Japanese and German versions)
Did it make you think thoughts? Now that I'm balls deep into the series I do keep thinking about what they will come up with next. The crazy gets taken a bit far this time and so much of how stuff happens goes unexplained which starts to get annoying. I also wondered if the initial plan to have Fred be a nightamarishly scary boogey man who hides in the shadows of your dreams and stalks you until you dance around on his glove mounted finger knives was purposely scrapped or whether he just evolved into the unkillable comedy villain we now have through movie evolution. Either way, i can't say I'm that bothered.
Would you watch it again? I'd probably watch 4 then 5 back to back
Rating (out of 100%): Much like number 4 it's worth a go if you need a chuckle and don't have Trading Places or Spinal Tap at hand, however it's not a great movie. Jump-out-of-skin rating 2%
Movie rating 46%
