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Summary: Jason takes New York
Review: This is one of the best of the series because it is something different. The other movies are all in the country but this goes to New York, although not until after half way through the movie.You can almost root for Jason in this when one of the female characters is about to get [attacked].Jason sticks a needle in him.It is a little far flung towards the end when Jason gets covered with toxic waste and he goes back to being a boy, but it is still a great movie with a lot of style.
I found the part leading up to the toxic waste scene interesting, when the two main characters were trying to escape the masked killer down some underground tunnels.The scene on the train was interesting too when one of the leads pulls the emergency lever that stopped the train. If that hadn't happened, Jason would have killed them in front of all the train passengers.Another interesting scene is where the lead characters went into a diner, asking to use the phone and found out it was out of order. Not long after, the homicidal maniac turns up and when the big cook confronts Jason, Jason fixes him.
Keep in mind that for the first half of this movie that is basically takes place on a ship until they arrive in New York.And to me it wasn't really that exciting until they got to New York.
This movie has a little bit of comedy in it unlike the others. The scene where the black boxer tries to fight Jason and gets exhausted is hilarious. Jason knocks his head off. It flies through the air, drops and lands in a dumpster and the lid closes. End of story.
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Summary: Time fer fun!
Review: Yes, this is the worst installment in the F13 franchise. Yes, it has horrible acting, cheesy special effects and makes no sense. But this is easily the funniest movie in the entire series, and must be viewed with that in mind. Part VIII cannot be watched seriously, for then it truly is a pain. C'mon, the black kid boxing Jason on the rooftop? The school slut seducing the principal for passing grades? The metal chick getting her hot-pink flying V smashed through her torso?? This is the classic "Get Drunk With Your Friends & Laugh" movie, and Jason does gets his licks in, to boot. The ultra-cheese 80s power ballad over the end credits is icing on the cake for this one, kiddies. A must-see!
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Summary: Jason takes Manhattan (or at least Vancouver)
Review: This is the last Friday the 13th showing Jason getting resurrected- by an anchor scraping across an oddly active underwater cable powering the lights of the now ambandoned Camp Crystal Lake (would you send your kids there again after such a infamous history?). He gets a new, if not rather convient, hockey mask and harpoons both ...teens on the small boat before he climbs aboard a luxery liner full of highschool seniors- that are too old and too dumb to be in highschool- and successfully kills several of them with the captain (who plays as Admiral Paris in Star Trek Voyager) with his new found ability to teleport short distances, before sinking the ship with all but the lucky few on a life boat on it's way to New York City.Instead of enjoying the sights as their vacation dictates, New York's newest arrivals gets jumped by ... addicted gang bangers and end up getting separated and killed when Jason also manages to swim all the way there. Who can forget when Julius gets his block nocked off after a brief fight on a roof top and when Principal McCollough (Richter oddly was also was on a Star Trek episode, playing his arrogant self) was thrown out of a window and plunged head first in a drum of toxic sewage. The one thing that bothered me is the plot hole: Renny, who's uncle is the aformentioned principal, has a memory of young Jason holding her down in Crystal Lake as a little girl, causing delusions and a fear of water. Considering that Jason was a boy when he drowned in 1957, and chronologically, this takes place in the late 90's (Part I took place in 1979... Part II, III, IV in a one week period in 1984... Part V five to seven years later... Part VI a couple years later... Part VII a few weeks? months?, whatever...), this must make her a very old highschool student. Granted that Jason is nice and slimey, he looks a little more held together then he did in Part VII- no exposed spine and kneecaps that made Jason look cool in the last one. .... Look on the bright side, it was better than Part V.
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: First off,they said Jason Takes Manhattan,did they?I liked the movie but should've been more time in NY/Vancouver then on the ship.One of the weakest of the series.
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Summary: AFTER PART 7, SERIES GOES DOWN HILL!!!
Review: O.K.,lets look at the rest of this series from the start of part 8.First,we see Jason getting resurected yet again by electricity.Not original,but what the hey.Then,he takes care of a couple on a boat,(after all there in his turf).I figure so far so good. This is where it all goes south.Jason decides to hop an oceanliner occupied by students on a class trip to Manhatten,via the couples boat.As far as I knew,crystal lake was small with no outlet to the ocean.Jason kills the crew and most of the students on the ship,which takes a good part of the movie.The remaining survivors take a life boat that must be on auto pilot to N.Y.Somehow,Jason pops up there and he just looks ridiculous in that setting.He gets temporarly done away with in the worst ending of the series.What's with the sudden lighting bolt and crack of thunder after his death? In part 9,Jason is back in the woods,but we find out that he is really a bodysnatching demon.This is a scifi ripoff that has no bussiness in this series.Last,is part 10.Now what in the wide world of sports is Jason doing in space.They got this maniac going to N.Y.,jumping bodies and now space.By the time part 8 came,millitary and goverment officials should've been aware of this killer in the woods.Jason should've stayed in the woods and part 8 be about him defending his turf against these people trying to stop him.Instead,we see the series getting off it's mark.I give two stars and admit to having these weak installments.After all,it is apart of the best horror legecy with my favourite maniac.
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Summary: Jason Takes Manhattan?
Review: Wow lets take a breath for a second. Now the thought of Jason in Manhattan sound quite interesting, but until you see it, now thats a whole new story. First of all this movie mostly takes place in a ship where most of the characters die off, then you got some the worst acting out of the series, but nothings as worse as Jason x in the acting category. The story is as simple as the title names it. A group of teens are set sailing to The Big Apple along with a deadly passenger unknown to the teens , and well you get the picture. Now I must give some credit to the writers on account that theres a girl that relates to jason in a way, the deaths in this film are pretty good, and the gore is also quite good. This isnt very bad, i mean ive seen bad and ive seen worse but definitly is one of the worst in the trilogy.
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Summary: rent it before you buy it
Review: The only reason I would think that someone would look at the reviews for a Friday the 13th movie is that they haven't seen it. If you are one of those individuals that haven't viewed this movie, then please go to blockbuster, hollywood video, videotime, or what ever other video rental store you go to and rent this movie and the rest of the series. Why? Because the Friday the 13th series is not for everyone. The DVD doesn't have many extras, mostly just trailers and commentary, so if you buy DVDs for the extras, and not the exellecent audio and picture, buy the VHS version.
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Summary: Jason Takes Manhattan
Review: Okay, yeah I know that this movie is horrible, but it is funny. Jason has never looked better, but I think they could have really made this one good, but they were in a rush to make a sequel. Jason is still a zombie, and he's gotta new hockey mask in this one. See it. Not the best, but not the worst.
Rating: 
Summary: Really dumb...
Review: I can understand why Paramount Pictures didnt want to continue the franchise after this movie. The very first scenes is located at Camp Crystal Lake, are good. Then for the most of the movie, the plot mostly is located aboard a teen filled "love-boat" headed for New York. The best parts of the movie is the endings, where the plot is located in New York, but it only lasts for about 15-20 minuttes. This movie could have been neat (if it wasent for the boring boat part).
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Summary: Beyond bad and unintentionly funny
Review: While I still stand by my statement that Jason Goes to Hell is the worst in the Friday the 13th series, Jason Takes Manhattan is pretty close to holding that title as well, but it is good for a laugh. This time around Jason is stalking another group of teens on an oceanliner bound for New York, and predictability is abound when the killings start. While the film is one of the worst in the series, it is unintentionally hilarious and even if your not a fan of horror movies or the series itself you will get a kick out of it. You see the teens do everything they shouldn't do to survive, and the acting is ludicrously bad, even for the series. This is the kind of film that movies like Scream parodied, and this is also the kind of movie that is made for Mystery Science Theater 3000. I mean come on, I could lose Jason running through New York, are these kids [mentally slow]? All in all, Jason Takes Manhattan is purely godawful, but it's good for a laugh or two. Look for Scorpion King knockout Kelly Hu as an unlucky cruiser.
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