The funniest of the franchise
I don't much care for the series after A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - so it's just the first 3 pictures that I enjoy. But if I had to choose which is the best of the trio I'd pick A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge every time. It simply never fails to entertain me.
Who could not like:
- The most uncool tidy-up dance ever committed to celluloid
- An exploding parakeet
- Kuato getting stripped, whipped and shredded in the school showers
- The pool party carnage
- "Help yourself, fùcker!"
- Jesse screaming like, well, a big jessie
- Crazy dogs
- The terror on the passengers' faces as Freddy bounces across the desert terrain in the school bus.
Mark Patton is excellent as the tortured teen son; not to mention it contains the best Freddy make-up. I must add that the film's greatest scene is when Fred gatecrashes the pool party. Good lord, this part is littered with amusing moments: random slashing; a guest's face being used as a stepping-aid for escaping teens; a guy falling from a wall and being engulfed by flames - but the best scene has to be when the have-a-go-hero tries to reason with Fred, and gets slashed and tossed onto a hot barbecue grill for his efforts. Su-fùckin-perb!