Overall rating: 6/10 
I think that Friday the 13th part V: A New Beginning gets a bad rap. People dislike it because the end reveals that Jason isn’t the killer but I think that actually makes it more interesting. I wish they had stuck to the new beginning that they claimed in the title and restarted the franchise with Tommy as the new killer. Alas, they revive Jason in part six and part five, like part one, is merely a novelty in the larger scheme of Friday the 13th films.
This movie picks up ten years or so after the previous installment. It would be interesting to try and figure out what year these movies are supposed to take place because while years are supposed to pass in the film universe they pretty much made one a year in real life and the hilarious clothes pretty clearly identifies the mid-1980s. We met now teenage Tommy Jarvis, Corey Feldmen’s characters from the last movie, who is sent to a teenager mental institution rehab halfway house farm (yeah, that part wasn’t very clear). The good news is that fake Corey Feldman grew up to be way more attractive than real Corey Feldman. Plus, he busts out with some hilarious surprise karate moves. There are also some really funny surprise boobs. It was like they realized they didn’t have enough nudity and so had a waitress flash herself in the bathroom mirror. Awesome.
There is a pretty insane number of deaths in this film (22) which I think makes it our highest death count yet. There are also four black characters; a sassy pre-teen, his grandfather, his brother, and his brother’s girlfriend. The kid even survives. The older brother has a brilliant death scene that takes place in an outhouse. It is one of the most stupidest and funniest things I’ve seen since this project started.
This movie is a mess, but it’s a kind of enjoyable mess. There is this ridiculous hick mother and son, a new wave girl who does an amazing solo dance number, and tons of random victims. We’ve left Crystal Lake and while most of the victims here are still teenagers we get more variety than just the standard parcel of camp councilors. I think there is the usual amount of blood for a Friday the 13th movie but some more inventive death methods than we’ve seen previously from this series.
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Final Girls 