Good 80's teen horror movie but not a good NOES.
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shareI basically agree. ANOES2 is not unlike most "80s teen" movies of its time. It followed what was a very standard formula of the time:
a sort of "soft," lanky, blond surfer-looking guy, who had a vulnerable streak (Jesse)...his more cocky and abrasive brunette friend, enemy or frenemy (Grady)...his glowing, congenial, Miss Teen USA type girlfriend (Lisa)...and her shallow tagalong friend (Keri.) Together they get into trouble that they have to figure a way out of, with sexual overtones compounding everything. By the end of the movie they've come of age and are now more worldly than they were at the beginning.
There, I probably just described half of the "teen movies" of 1985.
30 years later, people want to over-analyze this thing and assign all sorts of extra meaning to it when in reality, it's not that deep. Freddy's Revenge, in a lot of ways, is a very "cliche" movie of its time.
It had some really good stuff in it. The bus scene at the beginning was a great. Unfortunately, just about nothing Freddy does takes place is in the dream world which is kind of what NOES is supposed to be all about. I look at 1, 3-5 as the main story and 2 as a sort of sidequel.
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