Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

This movie is bad, but for some reason I watch it over and over again. It seems more like a made for TV movie, but it's still good. It's at the bottom of my list as one of my favorites right above Jason Goes To Hell. The story isn't all that bad, it's just the lack of blood when someone gets their head split open and the acting is pretty bad. Don't get me wrong it's still part of the series and it's not that bad, give it a chance.

The killings were unimaginative and "kid-friendly" and I didn't like the time jump, it wasn't really necessary, takes away from the 80s vibe. But overall this sequel isn't so bad as it's rating. It is very entertaining, and has some memorable characters. Although the setting isn't a camp, the acting of many was very campy.

I can already start by saying that this is just another film in this franchise. He is not the worst of the entire saga, but he is of such a low level of quality that he almost causes you depression. All the dumb choices that are made during this movie irritate in an inexplicable way. The worst part of the whole movie is in the characters, where in addition to being uninteresting, they are very forced. The actors manage to be so insufferable playing the characters that you get annoyed with them all. The way they try to act crazy becomes comical, but not in a way that makes you laugh, a humor you'd rather pierce your own eyes with than rewatch those scenes. Don't watch this movie if you're having a good day, it could ruin your day.

That wily rascal Jason Voorhees is at it again....or is he? Yes, this is the installment in the interminable "Friday the 13th" series that thought it would be a good idea to do without its only reason for existence...the hockey-masked Jason. Though you hardly notice the loss, since you don't KNOW it's not Jason until the film's final moments, and the copycat killer dresses like Jason anyway, so what's the difference? If you've seen one axe-wielding psycho in a hockey mask, you've seen them all.

Actually, I kind of like this entry. It provides the best nudity of the series....no fewer than three gratuitous boob shots, and nice boobs they are. And it's funny, sometimes intentionally so, as when the hillbilly mom calls her dufus son a dildo, sometimes unintentionally, as when the Michael Jackson look alike sings a duet with his girlfriend through an outhouse wall while he's on the crapper.

And the filmmakers outdo themselves with the body count this time around. By the end of the movie, there's no longer time to show them being killed off. Characters you've completely forgotten about just pop up as dead bodies. But what do you expect with all that plot to get through? Compared to the other films in the series, this is practically "War and Peace," what with the murder mystery story and the Tommy Jarvis plot line, which attempts to add a sense of continuity to the middle batch of movies (o.k. so Part 6 picks up Tommy's storyline in a completely different place and with a different actor, but for a series like this that's the best you can hope for in the way of consistency).

Grade: C

This is the best Jason to watch drunk, it's almost like a Friday the 13th blooper reel. I love the singing on the crapper part, the mod chick doing the robot, the "just wanna earn a meal" guy, Crazy Ethel and Junior, Billy and Llana, that kid from Diff'rent Strokes, the stupid arse ending, and the excessive nudity.

It's a time capsule of sorts, it captures all the bad 80's slasher films in a hour and a half. Bad acting? GOT IT! Ridiculous costumes? GOT IT! Lot's of big haired women topless? GOT IT! No name stars obviously coked out of they're mind? OH THIS MOVIE HAS GOT PLENTY OF THAT! Watch it and laugh, preferably with some friends