THE FNaF MOVIE VS TERRIBLE CRITIC REVIEWS - DMuted 

Normalize laughing at "critics", especially after they gave Cuties a 87%

It's insane how Josh's performance made a nothing character into an incredibly interesting and likeable one

I think a good chunk of this backlash is because this film was meant for fans first, newcomers second. It was a totally okay, fun movie, with cool props. Good for a Halloween watch with your friends- which is why it was made. I'm eager for the rest of the trilogy and hope they only improve.

i find it so hilarius that one of the critics actually thought that people didn't want any complex lore in the movie... meanwhile complex lore is arguably the primary reason why Fnaf got so damn popular in the first place.

"oh yeah my daughter told me completely incorrect lore so im giving it a bad score bc thats not what it was"

Even my husband liked this movie and he doesn’t give a crap about FNAF. I’ve been a fan since Markiplier’s first video. Everyone complains about the springlock scene but I look at it like this: William is a psychopath. He’s not going to react to physical agony in ways we would expect. He is so single-mindedly focused on his goals that, to him, being trapped in a suit is just a minor inconvenience. He knows how haunting and possession works. He knows he might even become stronger. As for the fort scene, the robots are kids. I appreciate that the movie reminds the audience of this. The idea that these innocent kids are condemned to such a horrific fate is the crux of the series. That’s what makes it so poignant. My favorite moment is when Vanessa shows Mike the picture of her with William in the spring Bonnie suit when she was a kid. Mike briefly notices her holding Garrett’s toy plane in the picture. There’s something so unnerving about how William took the toy plane as a trophy of his kill and gave it to his own daughter to play with. He’s perverting her innocence and making her unknowingly complicit in his crimes. It’s so violating when you actually think about it. Vanessa is a tragic character and it’s almost stomach churning to speculate the type of abuse she endured from William.

Speaking of terrible critic reviews, I hope you eventually trash YMS with his claims of the animatronics being cg, doing everything possible to dismiss those calling him out or avoiding actually looking anything up and being an arrogant dick about it and him insulting the fanbase.

The way I put it to my friend was "Final score: I enjoyed it, it was cool seeing FNAF 'come to life'/10". I recognize my bias as a FNAF fan, and while it doesn't have the strongest plot, it's not like they set out to try to win an Academy Award or anything.

Some of these critics are hilarious, missing the point of the film. Even if the film has faults, like the tonal whiplash fort scene (which I still think is fun) or the stupid scene where Freddy somehow bites a person in half, despite the fact that it was done by a hallucinated hand, I still am happy for the fanbase getting an entry-level horror film. Better than base security breach any day.

1:10 Nah man, that’s not how critics work. The best reviews are subjective, but don’t throw objectivity completely out the window. Critics aren’t robots and movies don’t have to follow a strict formula to be good (though it may be harder). A good critic builds their review with subjective points that are thoughtfully explained so that even someone who does not see eye to eye with them can understand where they are coming from. That said, you did acknowledge those reviews that were negative but actually gave some insight into their viewpoint which is dope.

The take with Tim Burton being able to do a better FNAF movie then Scott himself is hilariously bad. Guy has no idea what he’s talking about, just naming directors. Like DMuted said not even right kind of horror.

Hot take but i don't think it's even a BAD movie. People say like it's okay to enjoy a bad movie but this movie wasn't even objectively bad. The production is decent, the pacing is consistently okay, the characters are enjoyable, the plot and narrative are messy and not well thought out which is probably the only objectively bad point in the whole film.

No movie is perfect, but there is a difference between a movie being bad and just not paying attention to the movie

Reminder that the critics gave Cuties an 87%. Yeah, they're not reliable when it comes to reviewing FNaF, or pretty much any other movie, for that matter.

I never take what critics say as fact, 9.5 times out of 10 I love the movies they absolutely hate. Add to the fact that Scott and the rest of the production crew made it very very clear that the FNAF movie was made for FANS, the critics opinions mean absolutely nothing to me. I've heard that some wanted the movie to be more like the first game...like...what? You want Mike to sit in the office and just check cameras with the occasional animatronic jumping out and scaring the crap out of him over and over? This movie gave Mike a backstory and a reason to be there, and fleshed out the story. Using things from the games and novels the crew made the movie it's own thing that made sense. So yeah, I never go with what critics have to say about films, they all just come off as pretentious snobs that don't know what they're talking about.

It sounds like most of these critics sat down, shut their brains off, and just wrote about the things they half-remembered afterwards because the franchise is mostly marketed to kids. Does knowing the fandom enrich your experience? Yes. Is it 100% required to see the movie and understand what's happening? No. Even folks I know who have never touched the games were able to understand that oh, this is about the ghosts of children murdered by the man in the bunny suit, and the new security guy watching them is maybe connected on a level we don't understand yet.

I can kind of see where *some* of the non-fan criticism of the movie comes from. There was some stuff in the film that didn't work, that's fair. I feel that way about tons of movies, movies critics rave about. What I seem to be hearing both from critics and fans alike, though, is that they dislike the movie because it differs from their *expectations* and that's a very shaky ground to critique something on. Both fans and critics seem to be deriving a fair amount of their criticisms from how the movie didn't present them with something they were expecting to see, or did present them with something they weren't (Fort Scene anyone?). As for me? I went into the movie with a pretty open mind. I've been a FNAF fan since Game 1, and if you've been paying any attention as a fan you'll know that this "story" (storIES, more properly) has been told again and again, differently each time, and if you try to tell me there's a unified timeline of canonical events in this franchise I will laugh until I die and haunt a robot. Like each game builds on and tweaks the story of the previous, like the novel trilogy, like the graphic novel adaptations, the film is just another retelling - a remixing of elements this time for the big screen. If you've been a fan of FNAF for the near-decade it's been around and you're *surprised* that there's a whimsical scene of building a fort BY CHILDREN, you haven't been watching. Since Game 1 FNAF has been a horror franchise packed wall-to-wall with silly humor and touches of genuine innocence. That's why we like it, it's not just one thing. 9/10 had a solidly great time with my wife and friends.

I’m kinda confused how certain story beats played out though. As a FNAF fan since the second game, I am worried on certain things Scott assumably wrote or approved of to be in the script, and thought it’d make for the best film experience. For instance, Afton should’ve said the iconic “I always come back” phrase at the end credits after he was already springlocked, in a more breathy and less cartoony villain self referencing manner. Also the actual springlocked failure scene should’ve consisted of him trying to speak to the animatronics but choking or gargling instead due to organ damage and such, like how the games portray the sound of the scene to be. As for the fort scene, the argument that it’s in character for the animatronics to act like kids doesn’t take into account the scene sorta devalues their undead Afton-influenced side. I think it went too hard on that direction. How I see it, the games never portray the dead kids as overtly kiddish, but rather how their childish naivety and suffering turmoil causes them to not see reason and the wrongness of murder. They kill because they as children don’t fully understand what Afton is making them do, and I wholeheartedly believe the movie fails to convey this in a meaningful way in that scene. The foreshadowing and communication via kid drawings is goated though, that’s just perfect and the movie should’ve leaned a bit more into that instead.

I really don’t like horror movies in general, so FNAF was pretty much exactly what I could deal with, especially with friends. Hell, I had to look away during the trailers before the movie cuz they were showing some much more intense stuff.

it was a decent movie for me i gave it solid 7.8 also as a fan. But outside perspectives not knowing fnaf franchise i may give rating lower realistically. But im still shocked how low the critic rate the movie. i expect a bit higher because its not that terrible but just good enough. But i think its because of the hype revolves around fnaf before movie came out sets higher and maybe overwhelming expectations, knowing the movie still delivered fnaf fans service and faithful adaptation but to non fans i understand why the movie is dissapointing to them. Fnaf is not meant for everyone including fnaf fans that wants lore accurate from the games and non fans that don't know wtf going on with twist and weird shit and dumb moments with the movie.

I gotta say I went in to this expecting another fan who couldn’t handle a critics opinion but honestly you made a lot of really valid points and were respectful to the opinions of others while also giving logical points of your own

When was the last movie your ever had to think about without the story straight up telling you whats going on!!! Most people are dumb and never put clues together. Most horror is just scarry blood and gore. People hate thinking lol thats why its good!!!!

"Hutcherson's terrible performance" I've never heard something more wrong in my entire life

I liked the movie personally, but think it’s a bad horror movie that doesn’t feel tense like the games.

Willy's Wonderland is one of those movies that knows it's not good and it doesn't try to be so it becomes expontially moer enjoyable to watch

Some of these critics don't seem to even be familiar with the source material. Sure, I won't say the movie is perfect in any way. As a FNAF movie, I consider it almost perfect but as a movie in general, it's like a 7/10 for me, but that didn't even stop me from liking it, and this movie would not have been as good as it was without people like Josh playing Mike and Mathew playing William. And unlike some others, I actually really like the fort scene. When I first saw it in theaters, I was just confused throughout the entire scene, but after finishing the movie I thought back to that scene and realized why that scene even existed. It was part of the animatronics trying to gain Abby's trust so they could stuff her into Ella, and when you look at it under that light it makes the scene seem more sinister if anything. I do think that while this movie was obviously made for fans, they should at least try to explain some things so a general audience who will watch this movie can understand at least most of it. Like while I absolutely loved the Golden Freddy cameo, it really just seemed like fan service and was never elaborated on again (I hope he shows up in future movies).

The Irish Times gave in my viewr the greatest non review of the movie I have ever seen that just saying it doesn't do it justice. So I will post it for bateum and let it's terribleness marinade here in this comment. Somewhere in the second act of lockdown, Nicolas Cage - who else? - turned up in a shamelessly dumb video-on-demand release called Willy’s Wonderland. Our favourite vest-wearer, employed as a janitor in an abandoned amusement arcade, found himself fighting possessed animatronic characters apparently modelled on those from the Chuck E Cheese food franchise. The film wasn’t exactly good. But, as you’d expect with such a scenario, it knew to play the action up for the broadest laughs. Now we get this deeply puzzling, tonally bananas take on a clever video game whose influence on Willy’s Wonderland more than a few culturally astute critics noted at the time. Josh Hutcherson (who, somehow or other, is now 31) plays Mike, a troubled man living in guilty misery with his young sister. We soon learn he has never recovered from the apparent abduction of the siblings’ infant brother. Mistaking a passerby for the kidnapper in a shopping mall, he beats the stranger half to death and finds himself nearly unemployable. Meanwhile, his money-grabbing aunt (welcome back, Mary Stuart Masterson) is trying to secure custody of his nervy sister. Well that doesn’t sound much like fun. That sounds as if Ken Loach got hold of Sonic the Hedgehog. Eventually, like the Cagester, Mike secures a job in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a defunct family-fun emporium, and, after a few uneasy nights, is thrown in conflict with giant robot bipeds who become murderous after midnight. Sadly, the film still doesn’t lighten up. We are still stuck in an awful scuffed nightmare that looks to be reifying our protagonist’s existential trauma. Hutcherson is admirably committed to the film-makers’ apparent desire to make something miserable of a scenario that, as one Oscar-winning actor has shown, is more accommodating of psychedelic comedy. Josh furrows his brow and rumbles his vowels. So do we as we try to make sense of what we are being sold. The film has, one must guess, ended up this way as a result of efforts to honour the game’s grim backstory. The closest thing to a decent joke comes (I think) in a closing reference, at one or two removes, to a popular television show of the early 1970s. This bewildering exercise’s only other notable achievement is to make Willy’s Wonderland seem an underappreciated masterpiece. It really wasn’t. - The Irish Times.

I thought it was a solid movie. Only complaint I had was when Chica bent down at the vent, it just seemed a bit too fluid to me, but hey, that's the most minor of minor nitpicks. Otherwise, it was all good, the cgi wasn't really realistic and it kind of stuck out, but it was kind of charming in it's own way, it reminded me of some of the early "high quality" cgi in movies that were in the late 90s to early 2000's. Overall, really good movie, I'll probably watch it again.

Seriously annoyed with the whole "no gore" argument. Like FNAF was respectable when it came to depicting violence rather than be something that glorified gore.

4:05 It sounds like they were told the MatPat Ultimate Timeline version. 6:10 _God_ that review is so pretentious.

I'm not suprised that critics hate it, for one critics rarely if ever praise horror movies and two alot of critics are.... politcally opposed to scott's own beliefs so they would want this movie to fail

Another reviewi didnt like was angry joes review. He called the plot points with custody of mike's sister as pointless and boring. I also hated how in the review they insinuate that youre mentally challenged if you liked the movie. He gave it a 3/10 which is total crap

The movie’s perfectly fine, but it’s frustrating that the “critics” are completely ignoring the fact that you need to research to understand more of the lore outside of what it’s shown in the movie if you want to learn more of the lore after you watch the movie.

i feel like 70% of the critics would be happier if they put a 2 hour long 4K FNaF 1 gameplay on the screen.

Critics: LE GASP! This product isn’t accessible to everyone, and I have to do RESEARCH to understand everything?! 0/10!

I think this really points out a larger issue with critical reviews in general. Imagine if this was any other movie then none of these reviews would have even been given a second thought.

Guy who sees a movie about robots being haunted and murderous. Whats the underlying political messages????? People like him are terrible

I disagree with The Fort part of the movie was good because it shows their just kids because they still got murdered, and I don’t think the tragedy part come in when the kids still build forts and have fun.

This film was a solid 6/10 for me. I'm a fan of the series, but the movie leaned on the fan service a bit to hard to hold up the less than solid plot. The story wasn't terrible or anything, but I think they could have used a couple more drafts of it to have it make sense.

I think the main reason of the "meh" is that the movie isn't following 100% with the known lore, I just ignored that and fun guessing what is the same and isn't the same

7:30 Bringing up Tim Burton as a great filmmaker in 2023? Like, bro, that guy's career jumped the shark so bad the shark died of boredom at least ten years ago. Who the fuck cares about Tim Burton anymore in 2023?

I think that the ads really misrepresented this movie. The entire time i was eager to see how they would make a PG-13 horror movie, because the ads really played up the horror aspect. Then I watched the movie and realized that they used every single scary scene in the movie for the ads. It also had a lot of unresolved plot points by the end, which doesn't really help it at all. Mike's whole motivation for returning to Freddy's is to find out more about his brother, and then he's just kinda forgotten about by the end. There's no "which animatronic is he in?" or "where's his body?". Same with the children whose corpses are supposedly still in the animatronics (even though you clearly can't see anything inside Foxy). Same with the aunt character who gets murdered in Mike's home. For non-fans, this movie is pretty bad because it's not scary and clearly trying to leave things for the sequel to answer.

Hold on just thought of something if foxy chica freddy bonnie and golden freddy are souls in the anamatronics whats stopping the nightguard from becoming a another freddy chica or bonnie and if they can dose that mean that they can't move because if they can the nightguard vould do revenge

There was a critic that called the animatronics drunken versions of Chuck e cheese xD

Why is there 1.4M likes on this video with only a few thousand views?

The film was mediocre at best for me. I don’t think it nearly captures the essence of the first game. What makes Five Night’s at Freddy’s such a scary experience of a game aren’t the animatronics in my opinion, it’s the atmosphere. Despite being alone with four of these animatronics, you still feel a presence is still with you inside the main office, epically in the final nights. Case in point, look at Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. That film practically DRIPS with atmosphere & tone. You feel a ghostly presence or this invisible evil force inside The Overlook. Epically since Kubrick incorporated the ‘Micky Mousing’ technique, as if there’s actually an presence that lies within the characters in film. There’s none of that in the Fnaf film. The aesthetic doesn’t feel uncanny or off-putting. It actually feels sorta welcoming, ironically. Even in dimly lit shots of the film, it doesn’t look like a place I WOULDN’T want to be at. In the game, the aesthetics help with the atmosphere quite a lot for me. The office feels pocketed, giving a claustrophobic feel. The lights are flickery, the sounds of the fan & the lights buzzing become unbearable. It’s a place I’d dread working at, & that adds a level of satire because Five Night’s At Freddy’s is suppose to be a parody of Chuck E. Cheese inspired restaurants & animatronic mascots. Scott had put an awful lot of artistic merit into the first game, that I’d say it’s a complete masterpiece. In the film, despite the animatronics being completely practical & physical in suit-nation (which was pretty good on the movies part, fair play) they look almost animated, or CGI-like in dim areas. In the game, the animatronics being in those dim areas made their creepy features more sinister-looking. Case in point Bonnie & Chica staring at the cameras near your office while twitching, you can’t fully see their faces except for the most expressive parts of the body, (that being their eyes & jaw) & that’s what makes them terrifying in those shots, epically when the angle of the camera is faced downwards with them looking up, adding more of that level of uncanniness. Neither does the tension or paranoia feel there. I rememberer in the final nights of the first game, you saw flashes of text, hallucinations, demonic gargling sounds, like the Pizzeria & the victims that inhabit it were getting increasingly more deranged & psychotic. I remember seeing the animatronics freak out & start twitching, you heard them moan out of pain or from pure insanity. That tension made the final nights speaking for myself anyways so intense & nerve-racking. In the film, I don’t feel that. I hated the edition of Golden Freddy’s purpose, he should’ve been this ghost like figure, only appears brief shits in the film in those blink-&-you’ll -miss-it moments. Kinda like Tyler Durden’s hallucinations in Fight Club. His brief flashes in the film added this ghostly feel, almost like he’s entirely paranormal. That makes it feel like there’s an unforeseen threat. Golden Freddy should be this psychological threat, the film should question or play with the idea of his existence as an entity, or merely just an empty entertainment suit. Afton showing up as Springtrap didn’t feel special wither, for an important moment in the Fnaf series, that should’ve been down in the later films of there were going to be any. Hell, it probably should’ve been in the end of the second film. Overall, I felt like the film didn’t have the same psychology that carried my interest for the original game. Josh’s performance was pretty great though.

I’m gonna be honest I don’t like this movie anymore because i was watching this at home with a friend who knows nothing about fnaf and he was just laying into the movie making good points and it made me realize the video game movie curse struck again He said it was filled with too many references the jumpscares were cheesy and mikes sister felt more like a plot device than a character

Teletubbies with chainsaws? Is, is he talking about Slendytubbies?? If that's the case, how does this man know of SLENDYTUBBIES, but not FNAF????

Alot of these reviews aren't reviews there complaints

Fire in the sky being pg13 is funny to me because our video rental place (it's closed now) had that in the R section Lmao.

I'm lottle confuse about critic's review cuz they say the movie is not scary and gore that why this movie is bad but also gremlins is horror comedy pg-13 movie that not scary but why it work? Why many people like those movie

I keep seeing your eyebrows as your eyes and then I'm like what's that thing under his eyes oh wait🥲

i dont get how Tim Burton could make the movie better than Scott. Like i just can't brother he made the game and the story you just watched there is no better person other than him to know better wtf? Did they take drugs before watching the movie?

For me, the FNAF movie reminds me of Spaceballs: Cringey, stupid, and only people familiar with the source material will get it, BUT that makes it the perfect movie to watch with your friends and have a good time.

Banana splits was supposedly made off a fnaf script that Warner brothers made that Scott hated, therefore banana splits is more of a ripoff

As someone who watches a lot of FNAF channels and movie review channels, the backlash has been... interesting to say the least. How many of the FNAF fans whining about critics regularly watch Pastra, A FUCKING GAME REVIEWER? It’s because Pastra tends to give things they like glowing reviews, isn’t it?

Keep in mind rotten tomatoes is own by IGN so the ass hole remakes and the aggressive comments should tells you mostly about rotten tomatoes

Many Critic reviews are really Bad of the FnaF movie like "too much Story. Thats just Bullshit. But i must say that the FnaF movie is still in a objective view really bad. And you can see that even many of the audience think that because of the over -70% drop on the 2. Weekend.

5/10 -from a fnaf fan, it was not very good. There are way better films in theaters right now.

7:34 really...gods i swear some of the critics really are idiots.

They review it on it being a horror moive and for a horror moive it’s really bad tbf the games aren’t even good horror games either (excluding 1 ) it’s mascot horror can’t expect taht to be very good

Critics are writing reviews for their audience, though. They’re writing reviews for the average reader of xyz publication, which is rarely the same overlap as your average fnaf fan. They’re judging the movie to a different standard, getting mad about it seems unnecessary. That’s like being mad at a grandma for not appreciating the latest tiktok trend. They weren’t keeping fnaf fans in mind cause their audience isn’t fnaf fans (for most publications, at least).

I absolutly loved the movie!

fnaf fans when the movie that only cared about making fun references wasn’t good to people who aren’t into the games 🤬🤬🤬

Actually no Willys Wonderland wasnt based off of FNAF. It was based off of those Puppet Masters Movies from in the 80s.The writer of that movie said FNAf wasnt this inspiration as he never even heard of it neither. But afterwards he found about FNAF and became a fan of the games afterwards thanx to the fanbase supporting this low budget Nic Cage movie :)

As a long-time fan, I really disliked the FNaF movie.. I really hated the dumb B plot, and all the lore mistakes made me want to scream. It felt like a slap in the face after waiting for 7 years of my life. It was underwhelming, they fucked up in the movie. I enjoyed the animatronics being brought to life by Jim Henson, but holy shit.. I feel like it was boring, the only part that made me feel ANYTHING was the ending when they played the Living tombstone song.

It’s wasn’t good to be honest people were just blinded by wait and it just being fnaf

I think at this point we can all agree that critic reviews are meaningless nowadays. Movies aren't even made for them now are they, it's the average audience that's the target logically speaking.

The fnaf movie was a really shitty movie, it’s not a good movie by any means, but I was just happy it was a movie.

Its ok to like a bad movie, as a movie of course its pretty bad but as a fnaf movie id say it does its job.

Epic

most critics didnt like the movie for the wrong reasons. "movie wasnt what i expected/wanted" is a bad review. "plot point A, B, and C, didnt make sense when placed next to eachother" would make more sense. the movie wasnt perfect by any means but most negative reviews are based in opinions rather than lookin at it as an actual movie.

As a fnaf fan this movie is terrible.

sounds like they're mad it's not a "woke" movie and are trying to make Disney look better which they are failing miserably at

Usually your content hits but this aint it. Im not even defending moronic critics. But you are huffing copium if you are tryna say the movie was anything more than laughably bad.

Oof I can’t believe you liked it. So tired of fnaf fans getting mad at the critics because the movie is just bad. Regardless if you’re a fan or not, the movie was cringe and trash. L take on this vid bud.

I went in expecting to like the movie but was left kinda disappointed. The opening scene where the security guard was going to get his face carved out gave me high expectations for the rest of the movie. However, the fort scene completely ruined the movie for me, especially when Bonnie fell down in a comedic fashion, and all the characters lay in a circle; it completely killed any semblance of horror. I thought that maybe a later scene would make up for it, but it didn't. I thought Steve Raglan/William Afton was wasted potential and I didn't like that Vanessa was basically just a walking encyclopedia. Also, did the Aunt die? And why was there no police investigation or news reports after Max and the other intruders went missing? I waited almost a decade for the movie to release, and I guess I got my hopes too high (especially when I heard Scott himself had input) but was ultimately disappointed. I just hope if there's a sequel, it will be significantly better.