Straight to the meat: it wasn’t a bad movie. The didn’t ruin it like so many remakes, but, seriously, wait till it comes out on DVD. Just not worth going to the theater, even during a matinee. It was predictable, not particularly scary, not particularly gruesome, and, gotta say, the guy who plays Freddy, Jackie Earle Haley, is just not scary. Disturbing? A bit. Scary? Not in the least. He just does not inspire terror like Robert Englund did.
It’s rather slow and plodding, with a few bits of gore and some “OMG, he appears!” shock value done a gazillion times. The gore scenes aren’t even that interesting.
More at the New York Times.
A few minor spoilers below the jump
Missing is one of the all time great scenes, the one were Johnny Depp’s character is swallowed into the bed, and then we get the fountain of blood. If you are going to do a remake, how can you not put that in?
Dumb blond moment: one of the characters featured early in the movie drives home in her convertible with the top down. She parks at home, top is still down, and then we hear the tweet-tweet of her locking the car/turning the alarm on. Did I mention the top was still down?
The dream scenes are predictable, including the whew, I woke up, oh, shit, I didn’t ones.
Yeah, I had a feeling it would be that way … I’ll take your advice and wait for video.
Too bad, because the original was a masterpiece. People may not get that now, being used to modern special effects and all, but it was an original, different, and the first time you saw it you didn’t know what was going on.
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It wasn’t totally awful, I didn’t walk out ticked that I had wasted money, like with Terminator Salvation, but, yeah, definitely not worth the money if it can be avoided. Surprisingly, the special effects weren’t that great. Very basic, nothing special.