Well, we're moving right along with the fifth installment to Friday the 13th franchise, a movie that has some compelling elements as well as sympathizing with some minor characters but at times feels a bit over the top at times in terms of what its concept is trying to follow. More importantly was this the best way they could adapt in terms of creating a new beginning or again making the sole survivor after being either crazy or trying to face his own fears. But we should also answer the biggest question in the entire franchise, and that's, what's up with people's problem with fat people?
Years after Tommy Jarvis (John Shepard and Corey Feldman) murdered? Hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience. As the body counts grow, Tommy begins to question his sanity and wonders if Jason has risen from the dead. But, to determine the killer's identity, Tommy will need to survive.
To be truthfully honest I can understand what the studios at Paramount were trying to accomplish with A New Beginning, basically trying to create a new slate that doesn't have Jason Voorhees as the main antagonist of the film and create a copycat killer, though sure that can work but when you create an iconic character like Jason it kind a leaves a bad taste in the mouth moreover feels like you've been ripped off and I can almost relate to all of the audience members going to A New Beginning, because you're paying money to watch a movie where Jason is going on a rampage of stupid people and yet the biggest reveal is that he's not the killer but only a copycat. And I've had my fair share of going to movies that I felt ripped off, though granted movie tickets forty years ago weren't so expensive as they are now but the feeling of being ripped off is still there personally when you look at some movies now, as well as forty years ago. I will say through the course of part three to five, everyone hates fat people, and it's almost like everyone are such a-holes to them I mean the fat guy in part three sure, he was being annoying almost like he's in desperate need of attention for which I would of passively/aggressively tell the guy "look it's cool to scare people but when you do it over and over again it gets annoying", but yet again the women in part three are way too sensitive so, deep down all the characters in part three are all the worst so, technically doesn't matter. Then when you get to part four, a fat female hiker is trying to get a ride, but the group of friends say "where are we going to fit her?" and declines her as well as insults her, but then you get to part five sure it's a typical concept of a fat guy who just wants to help but everyone is being a-holes to him to the point where a psycho is so mad, that he just kills him. And look, when you have Al Bundy making fun of fat women because they're being so, obnoxious because they never accept what shoe size they truly are, but come on they at least deserve it but with these movies they're just being way to much a-holes, to the point where even I'm a fat guy and movies like this show, how much I hate people even to now because they're so, obnoxious as well as acting like they're took good, hell I don't know either way this is the eighties, where teens are always at times unlikable. I will admit there are some fun elements in A New Beginning, a surprising notion is the stranger with the Fedora who bestows young Indiana Jones with the fedora in the Last Crusade is in the movie, he plays the doctor in the movie, and when I find out I had to make sure and that's was a cool notion in the movie. The other thing is we have this strange hillbilly Norman Bates and his mother just reporting to cops and the hillbilly Norman Bates is getting beat up by teenage Jarvis furthermore vents while driving his bike around his house and you see close ups of him moreover I was mildly entertained because him after getting punched in the nuts he's just walking it off and then he gets killed off which is a great kill, either way found it entertained. This movie does have its ups with one of the kids including the main character Tommy Jarvis trying to confront his demons as well as, having a young Bill Walton trying to flirt with the girls, not in the best way but either way you feel bad because the girls are treating him like crap but when you tell a girl he wants to make love with you, eh not a good idea to tell a girl slick. And even after all these ups, you still have the downs where the character of Jarvis tries to face his demons, but they end it in the worst way possible, which is a letdown in my opinion. Although with the sixth movie, Jarvis does come back so maybe we might find the best Friday the 13th movie, because right now movies 1-5 are in the range of okay to meh if you ask me, until then TO BE CONTINUED!
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