I liked it quite a bit. I liked the parallels to old-school children's tales and how they kind of treated Freddy Krueger as this modern-day horror icon.

I really do hope we get a new Elm Street film soon and it is successful. In a lot of ways, Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers are our modern-day Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman (I say modern, in spite them being forty years old). With all the different interpretations and, now, Halloween and Friday the 13th getting new TV series', it allows the characters to evolve and deepen.

I think, rather than saying it was a great film, I merely conclude it was a way to let Freddy go out with a little dignity after all the damage (fun damage, but damage no less) done to him over the years

After Freddy's Dead, it was nice that they let Wes Craven come back to the character that made him famous and let him go out with a little dignity (barring that god awful remake).

This is the longest film in the series and we don’t even see Freddy in full till over an hour in but his presence is there throughout so we don’t ever feel short changed. The performances are as strong as any we’ve seen and I love the fact that this is an Elm Street film that’s also not really an Elm Street film.