After the big disappointment of Freddy's Revenge, NewLine managed to lure Craven back into the franchise to give the company an idea. Bringing Nancy back makes this film eminently more watchable than number 2 and the introduction of Kristen (played with energy by the beautiful Patrica Arquette) was also a fine idea. Add to this solid direction from Chuck Russell and scripting by Shawshank Redemption's Frank Darabont and you've got an exciting and thoroughly enjoyable movie. This is the first one were Freddy cracks wise as it were, and while that added alot to the sequels it also caused a great problem. None of the sequels are really funny enough to be comedy or scary enough to be horror. Still this one balances the two paradigms nicely and also has quite a strong storyline. Its good to see early stuff from Patricia Arquette and Laurence(Larry!) Fishburne. The characters in this are well thought up and you do care about them, especially the mute Joey and tough-guy Kincaid.
A thoroughly enjoyable and generally good sequel that doen't manage to reprise the thrills and genius of the original, but is a good movie.
A thoroughly enjoyable and generally good sequel that doen't manage to reprise the thrills and genius of the original, but is a good movie.