People who say there was no wittiness
This movie has a lot of problems but Freddy cracking jokes wasn't one of them.
People say that he doesn't joke around like the old Freddy but he did joke a few times, like during the blood hallway scene where he says something like this: "That's what I call a wet dream."
But seems like people missed such moments. Is it because they made him creepier here that such jokes just felt more creepy than funny?
Also, Freddy in the original didn't joke much either, the later movies turned him into a comedian.