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· Year: 1989
· Director: Rob Hedden
· Writer: Rob Hedden
· Cast: Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder
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Part of the Friday the 13th series.
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Seemingly immortal killer Jason Voorhees hitches a ride on a boat going to New York City and terrorizes the group of teenagers thereon.
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RATING
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42
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ATMOSPHERE
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GORE
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HUMOR
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As we watched Friday the 13th, part VIII, my wife, by quoting a classic episode of The Simpsons, crystallized what I was thinking through the whole thing: "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?" She even did a good Milhouse impression. Deal is, our heroes--and our villain, of course--don't get to the city until the movie's half over, and we don't see anything recognizable until they emerge into Times Square. The movie also certainly doesn't deliver on its title's inference of humorous content. Jason's played for laughs near the end, and it works, but it's far too small of a scene. By the time a series hits its eighth movie, I'd say it's ripe for lampooning--Bond did it, and so did Star Trek, sorta, in Insurrection, but Jason Takes Manhattan won't leave its horror roots for more than a few seconds. (Yes, I know A New Beginning tried to make fun of the series, but it failed miserably.) To his credit, director Rob Hedden does find ways to make Jason, by now a force of little mystery, interesting, bestowing upon him supernatural abilities such as appearing by will. But there's nothing here to warrant more than a viewing. Except, perhaps, Jensen Daggett, who is an actor a couple of cuts above the usual caliber of this series.
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