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HugeReviews.com Reviews:
Jason
and the ARE YOU NUTS?!?! Yes,
thank goodness.
by Michael Flanagan
Solid
I’ve seen every Friday the 13th film.
That’s not something that someone generally brags about, or
even admits. But with Jason
X, it’s once again relevant.
Jason X is a fun movie. It mocks the previous films in its depiction of a nervous,
twitching Jason who awakens at the very smell of someone, somewhere,
having sex. And, of course,
he has to put a stop to it. This
time, in space.
I remember reading that the next installment of the
series would be Jason in Space, and I thought they had finally lost it.
He went to Manhattan, and it sucked.
He went to Hell, and it sucked.
Heck, the last 3 times he was still in Crystal Lake, it sucked.
So why try and bring him anywhere again?
Let him be dead, along with all of us fans’ dreams of Friday
the 13th Part 13: The Final Chapter…again and Jason
vs. Freddy because, frankly, no one cares.
Except this movie makes you care. It makes you realize how ridiculous and horrible the other
films were, and how equally ridiculous it is that they’ve made it to
part 10, and then they rub your face in the fact that you’re watching
it, and I loved every minute.
The filmmakers here not only know their previous Friday
films, they know horror. They
know 80’s horror. And
they know literature horror! The
ship’s name is Grendel, and anyone with a passing knowledge of the
lake monster and his mother of Beowulf will be able to draw some
connections.
And the movie makes you laugh. Every time someone is horribly murdered, something funny
accompanies it, whether it’s a funny line or the squeedgie sound of
blood as a body slides down the wall, 80’s bad horror is made funny.
Jason is funny. And a sequence near the end of the movie is probably the
funniest and most appropriate tribute to the series that anyone could
give, and it’s wonderful. Comedy
is one of the hardest genres to get right, and quasi-satirical horror
has to be even harder. And
their stab at it here hits home, right in the gut.
Ouch.
Sure, it slows down a little here and there.
And when Jason gets an upgrade it kind of turns into a weird
escape movie. But it knows
itself, it’s better than Scream, and it may be the best Jason
movie to date…I’m still comparing it to the one with the
psychic…or is it the one with the mental patient…no, no, it’s the
one with the mom…ah, forget it. See
this movie.
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He's
Screwed
by Christian De Matteo
Solid
Well, this was my virgin journey into
the Jason Voorhees saga... and it was more than I could have ever hoped
for. Infinitely stupid in the most wonderful ways, astoundingly corny,
deliciously gory and complemented perfectly by a few well placed
breasts... most of them with attached nipples.
No this was wasn't the greatest movie
I've ever seen, but it was downright fun. It does slowdown when he gets
his new super-fly super-space outfit for a bit, but there are still a
few great deaths on the way. Awakened by the scent and low moans of
premarital sex, he fights like a Catholic priest gone horribly wrong...
minus the attraction to little boys in gowns. He smells sex and stops
sex and is just so damned creative about it.
Always trying to top the previous
pig-sticking, each murder gets more and more inventive but the best is
still in the middle of the film with the slowly spinning body... you'll
see.
It's well directed and well written, all
the while being completely comfortable with its inherent silliness. The
director knows this is ridiculous, unredeemable baloney, and he flies
this fact flagrantly in our faces. And we love it. Why does the Crystal
Lake campground now have a research facility? Why is there a slaughter
of a team of elite military men and nobody checks it out for 400 years?
Why does Jason keep coming back? Who knows? Does it matter? No.
Emphatically, No. Who cares? is the real question, and the answer not a
soul so long as the slaughter don't stop.
Lovely and bloody, Jason X is
good, wholesome, family fare... for the Osbornes.
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