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67
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Entertainment Weekly
So can Freddy beat up Jason, or what? Let's just say that neither one would have stood a chance against Abbott and Costello.
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50
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Tremendous energy, outrageous humor, dazzling technical finesse -- and a numbing amount of violence, brutality, bloodshed and all-out savagery. It is downright depressing to think about all that vigorous cinematic artistry and expertise aimed so low.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Considering 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.
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50
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USA Today Mike Clark
Truth be told, the movie isn't among the worst sequels of this summer.
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50
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Attempts 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.
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50
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though a stickler might ask what's at stake in a fight to the death between two guys who are already dead, the hard-core fans aren't likely to be disappointed.
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30
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
This 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?
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30
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Washington Post
A kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both sides.
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25
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Connoisseurs 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.
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20
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Witless, excessive and ultimately boring gore-a-thon.
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