Fiv Nits at Froddys

I have never played the games, but I watched others do so, and watched far too many Theory videos, so I know too much lore going into this.

It's possible knowing too much lore is useful, so I know that Mike is important, and what happens in his history is important, without the movie needing to tell me... which is handy, because we only get the basics in the movie. Vanessa turns up, and we can go "Hey, it's Vanessa!" as we know who Vanessa is, and she is very basic in the movie. Then Freddy and co turn up, and it's all them! And finally we get the reveal... and how the hell do the protags just jump to that as the answer? We know it from the movies, but there is nothing in the movie to lead Mike and Vanessa to know what's going on, but they do...

Speaking of Freddy, I will say that the animatronics look damn good. These are full puppets, by the Jim Henson company, no CGI creatures there. Very well done, and about the only real decent thing in the movie to see. Otherwise, the story takes too long to get going, and the odd cameo isn't going to help pass the time.

No doubt this will be successful... but as it went straight to VOD, that will undercut money it could have made. Scott has a second and third movie in mind, so we might be back here yet...

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