It basically chucks out the rules established in the first film and seemingly makes things up as it goes along.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 20, 2024

The ridiculousness of the dialogue and Patton’s shrieking performance make this a perverse camp classic.

| Oct 27, 2022

A significant drop in quality. The goofiness of the script and some baffling visuals makes this a strange experience. As a confusing contrast, the portrayal of Freddy is perhaps the darkest in the series.

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The queer subtext is arguably the most interesting part of the film, but it's undone by a heteronormative and anticlimactic finale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The scares are already less effective than before, especially when they're derived from something as goofy as a spontaneous bird combustion or revenge against the gym teacher.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Freddy [i]s a threat to Jesse's burgeoning queerness. He is a manifestation of Jesse's own internalized homophobia, so when sexual situations arise that might naturally encourage Jesse to consider his "unorthodox for the 80s" sexuality, Freddy pops out

| Feb 22, 2020

An allegory about the dangers of being forced to repress your sexuality, and also a fun slice of Freddy's nightmare world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2019

The sequel is clunky, sluggish, poorly cast, not funny, and worst of all, not scary. And it all but dispenses with what made the first film scary to begin with.

| May 3, 2016

...a weak retread of its marginally superior predecessor...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2010

An uneven, tedious, and sloppy sequel with plot holes, lapses in logic and horrible performances...

| Oct 4, 2010

Possibly the lamest of all the sequels, although Five and Six later set the bar particularly low.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2010

Much better than expected.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 5, 2010

Episodic treatment is punched up by an imaginative series of special effects.

| Mar 26, 2009

As is the prevalent case with most sequels, the film is inferior to its predecessor. It is still very, very good, however, more so than most viewers give it credit for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2008

Although Jesse and Lisa are granted some much-needed time to get it on, he and the film would appear in unison in that they're still waiting to come out of the closet.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 17, 2008

The second film of the series departs from the storyline dramatically, leaving the impression that it doesn't fit into the series.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2007

I must give credit where it's due: this is pretty unique in its stupidity.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 12, 2007

A work of high camp, even if Freddy himself is often reduced to an annoying nocturnal emission that will inevitably ruin a pool party.

| Dec 30, 2006

The film hangs reasonably well together, not least because of good performances from all concerned.

| Feb 11, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2005