Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!
Plot Summary: Freddy is back for the "final" time to wreak more havoc and find his lost child.
Review: Saved the best for last my ass! Hey, I have an idea, let's take everything we know and love about this franchise and throw it out the window! This is, by far, the worst Nightmare film in the franchise, and I'm still probably being too generous with its rating. This movie is a total mess, complete failure, and mockery of everything that was once good about the franchise. Freddy has become full blown comedic, the dream world is shallow and unoriginal, and the tone is way off. The film begins by thinking its clever for skipping to the year 1999 as if this film really needed a futuristic setting (there is never any significance to this except to skip exposition). We have no explanation for how Freddy came back after part five or whatever became of Alice and her baby. Springwood, home of Freddy and Elm Street, has become a wasteland because Freddy has supposedly killed all the kids, they committed suicide, or moved away. Besides this being beyond stupid, it is made worse by the fact that all the parents are still running around pretending the kids are alive in a trance-like state; trust me, it is even dumber than it sounds. There is a pointless red herring plotline about one kid with amnesia who thinks he's Freddy's son only to realize that some therapist is Freddy's daughter. For some reason, Freddy wants his daughter to return to him so he can...kill her? Be a happy family? I really don't know, and I don't think the writers have a clue either. And speaking of this daughter drama: oh yes, please give us even more stupid backstory to a character we thought we knew especially when it will make no sense as far as continuity goes. None of the rules from the previous films are applied here; for example, when Freddy kills someone they are erased from existence. Many stupid moments occur that make no sense like when one kid is trapped in a video game dream and he's jumping all over a house Looney Tunes style. I think I roll my eyes during every scene in this piece of shit. Considering this was meant to be the last film, you'd think they would come up with a better way to beat Freddy than repeating what happened in part one! This ending scene is where the 3-D element came into play and it looks laughably bad. So Freddy's daughter pulls Freddy out of dream world, they fight in a hilariously stupid manner, and Freddy is blown up by a pipe bomb (yeah, I know, what a way to go out, right?). Ugh, what a pathetic and miserable way to end the franchise. What were they thinking?! For better or worse, the franchise does continue, but as it stands, this total piece of shit is the conclusion to the primary storyline of 1-6. So yeah, let that one sink in a bit. Nothing works, every aspect is inferior to the previous films, it feels uninspired, stupid ending, inconsistencies, contrivances, tone and atmosphere way off, and it just sucks! Freddy deserved better...
Notable Moment: The opening credits. The Goo Goo Dolls' song and opening quotes are better than this whole film, and I don't even like Goo Goo Dolls.
Final Rating: 3.5/10
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