Just got done watching Freddy v/s Jason ENTIRE POST IS A SPOILER!!!!
Do not read any further if you do not want to read any spoilers.......I'm not going to use the spoiler tag to hide the whole post so....if you don't want to know what happens, read no further.
Who won? Tie......both died, both came back at the end..........Freddy kicked Jason's ass the entire movie......he kicked his ass in the dream world then he kicked his ass in the real world..........Jason was his punching bag up untill the end when the fight began to even out as Freddy began losing limbs.
How does Freddy contact Jason?
As the film opens......Freddy is in his dream world. He tells how he has searched the bowels of hell to find the person to instill fear in the children of Springwood which will allow Freddy to come back as he lives off their fear.........that person is Jason.
But we never see Jason dreaming, how does Freddy reach him? Jason is dead....in hell. This is wear Freddy contacts him disguised as Pamela Voorhies........he sends Jason back.
How do they fight in the dream world?
The movie contains this cheap knock off of Jason Mewes stoner type character.........Freddy takes over his body while he is stoned/asleep and injects Jason with an assload of tranquilizers........this ofcourse sends Jason to la-la land.
How do they fight in the real world?
The teens in the film quickly figure out what is going on (too quickly if you ask me) and decide their only hope is to get Jason to stop Freddy.......while Jason is still tranquilized, the protagonist of the film (some blonde chick) takes some tranquilizer herself and pulls Freddy out of her dream.
This movie was very entertaining.........I liked it alot......some bad points though:
1. Before the title sequence we get a 5-10 minute recap of Freddy Krueger's life told to us by the man himself. What is the purpose? I'm sorry but if you don't know the history of the Freddy Krueger character, what the hell are you doing watching the 8th installment of the series if you havn't seen the other 7?
2. That Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob fame) knock off stoner character...........christ, they probably could have just bought Jay Mewes some heroin and he would have played the part himself.
3. Freddy kills NOBODY in this damn movie..........NOBODY. He almost does.......but Jason kills her first right as Freddy is about to deliver the death blow, this is what starts the feud.
To be honest with everybody..........you might aswell consider this as NOES 8..........it is basically a Freddy movie........the story centers around him, not Jason.........Jason is merely a tool used by Freddy and his rival later on.......he isn't the bad guy. He actually comes out looking like a good guy.............he is just one more nemesis Freddy has encountered (like Nancy, Kristen, Alice).
I give it a big thumbs up for entertainment value........everything fits in with the story line of both series. The thing I loved most about this movie that most people I'm sure didn't even catch.......When inside Jason's mind, we see him drown as a boy.......the kids are teasing him and throw a burlap sack to him and try to put it on his head.......he goes into the lake and drowns. The first time we see Jason in Friday 2 guess what he's wearing over his face? Yup.......the burlap sack he was holding when he "drowned" that the kids were trying to put over his head. I like continuity in movie series'.
Any questions......feel free to ask.