Loews Cineplex At Jersey Gardens

Excellent theater experience. Polite staff. Elevated seating. Out of my way, but with the trip.

This movie theater is next to a hood outlet mall. So expect to see people you probably do not want to see from your neighborhood. It is a huge movie theater with a shopping center next to it. I’m assuming for most that Is a plus. The place could be a little cleaner and the staff a bit friendlier.

They have an IMAX 3D and a lot of arcade games. They may be old and worn down but better selection than a lot of other places. There is a huge parking lot, obviously because its next to the outlets, and you can always take public transportation if you need to. Can’t really bike though. Unless you live in the hotels near by.
The food stand could be placed better instead dead in the middle where it causes traffic when they are lines building. It also doesn’t look like the cleanest to get food but you can’t really look anywhere else unless you sneak in food from the food court in the outlet.
The employees are pretty ghetto and definitely are milking their hours. Sucks when there is a long line of people to get food and they are still taking their time. Also for some reason when it is crowded there’s always like one or two registers that work and the others doesn’t. What’s up with that!
Anyway the prices here for a movie are cheaper than watching it in New York but more than some other theater’s that I go to.

It’s aiite!

Nice looking theater, a bit pricey in everything, chicken fingers fries and a soda is 17.50, please I can go to a diner and have someone serve me for that price. The candy and popcorn is expensive, the staff, well I have one word GHETTO! Oh and I’m not sure what is up with it smelling like sweaty gym socks up in there.

So I’ll be completely honest, but when they first opened I was in there every weekend and had a blast. This was straight higschool status but, if I were going with a big group we would all pitch in for one ticket, have that person go in and then let us in through the back (lmao)… again that was highschool days, now that I’m over that lil kid ‘ish I do pay full price and holy crap they are expensive!!! Lol, $ 11/​ticket, $ 4.50 for candy, I think it was $ 6.50 for a med. pop corn which was more like a small… IMAX I think I paid $ 16, I saw Super8 and i was pretty disappointed. I remember the screen being a looooooot more bigger ((now that I think about it, I was about 8yrs old for my first IMAX experience lolz)).
The staff is pretty ghetto & lazy… I’m not going to bash all the staff tho, because some of the older staff members really do have great customer service etiquette, but as far as these straight outta highschool kids working there just for their money… it rubs off… bad. But besides all that, the theatre is really big and beautiful, gives you kind of a AC feeling… in the middle of Elizabeth hahahaa. Over all not that bad.

Nice looking theater. However, the prices are ridiculous! I don’t know what the going rate currently is for movie tickets, but they are $ 11 each at this theater. $ 14 if you see the 3D movies.
However, that is not even the issue. The issue is how ridiculous the prices are for the concessions. I went this past weekend and there was like a fire or something in the concession area. Kinda weird, but fine. So I go to the coffee area and ask for two 20 oz bottles of soda… $ 8! I live in manhattan so I am used to ridiculous, overpriced beverages, but $ 4 for a 20 oz diet coke should be illegal.
Then I go to theater 8 to see my movie… which btw is TINY (especially to see a movie that has only been out for 2 days.) and decide to try in a few minutes to get popcorn once they could put the fire out at the concession stand. I then wait 15 min in line at the ‘inside concession area’ to get a small popcorn (which btw a small popcorn is $ 6. a small.) just to find out they ran out and that I would have to go wait in line at the other concession stand. 30 min for $ 6 popcorn? No thank you.
I’d go to the theatre in Bayonne. it’s cheaper… and NOT in Elizabeth. Both are kinda pluses in my book.
BY THE WAYYYYY — I saw Jackass 3-​D here (i know. i don’t deserve any dignity) and there was like a 7 year old sitting behind me. In a R-​rated movie. Asking his mother what the 3-​D dildos flying at his face were. Thought that was a great educational moment.

The theater is awesome… except for the young people (animals?) that like to go there. The experience at this state of the art theater gets worse as the day progresses. The earlier you go, the better the experience. But the later the showing, the more ghetto (and dangerous) the crowd gets!!! Movie-​goer beware! If you must go to a late showing, sit in the back row. That way you won’t have some ghetto, prison b*tch (man or woman) kicking the back of your seat on purpose. It happened to me…

I like this Loews.
While it is a bit out of the way, they have a big, free parking lot, and there’s rarely a full /​sold-​out theater unless there’s really a popular movie out, but they usually have enough screens to avoid that.
Costs are close to NYC prices, but the sound is good, the screens acceptable, and the seats have arm rests that move all the way up. Some of the theaters even have «better» seating towards the top back, and those leather seats can be initially chilly, but it’s nice to have little tables/​arm rests on each side of the two seats. Good date seats?
Also a large arcade up front along with little video displays high up of previews… it’d be better if it was lower, but oh, well.
Overall, not a bad place at all, although can be overrun with local high schoolers.

This Loews is big and beautiful. There is a whole huge arcade section with a big screen TV above the entrance. There is a condiment bar for popcorn and other foods. The prices at the concession stand are of course high, but my husband likes to get the warm and toasty nachos with his theatre experience for around $ 7. Movie posters and cardboard advertisements hang at every corner. The lines to buy tickets are not that long in the evening as there are two ticket booths and two separate lines. Movie tickets being $ 9.50 each (if I recall correctly), cheaper than in New York City.
The theatre I was in was built stadium style. I would not recommend sitting in the first row of the middle section because of the railing obstruction. It doesn’t bother other people, but it bothers me a little bit. The pre-​movie commercials are projected to TV sizes and may be cut off from the actual theatre screen, but the movie is formatted to fit the screen.
Unfortunately, my last experience in this theatre was a bit annoying, not because of Loews, but because of some of the movie-​goers, who are rude and inconsiderate. Sure, Sprint always tells us to turn off our phones and cut out conversation while the movie is playing, but there were teenage kids sitting a few seats away from me who were playing with their phone the entire time, playing music out loud on the phone, and having loud non-​movie conversations between them while giggling. One was even kneeling on the floor with her elbows on the seat and is obviously, not watching the movie. As I gave them a look, they turned to me, waved, and said, «hiiiii…» If they are not here to watch the movie, why don’t they go somewhere else? I missed a whole movie scene because they were distracting me. Luckily, the movie was loud enough where the action scenes drown out the teen’s noise levels. After the movie was over, the teens left and in their place was a boat load of garbage that I had to step over. Pretty disgusting, but it’s not the theater’s fault. I just wish people knew how to behave out in public.
Overall, this is an awesome theater at great prices. Just watch where you sit if you can help it.
PROS: cheaper tickets than NYC, stadium seating
CONS: some rude and inconsiderate movie-​goers

I started going to this theater when it first opened a few years ago. It is in a super convenient location, only a short walk from the Jersey Gardens Mall entrance. The style of this theater appears to have been designed after the theaters of yesteryear. The front boasts large columns and a a bold entrance that just screams «I am no ordinary theater!».
Inside there is a huge area for video games where a large screen overhead plays previews, commercials and more. There are tons of concession stands (but the lines can still get rather long on Fridays and Saturdays). The thing I love about the theaters themselves are how *comfortable* they are. The seats are big with nice back supports and there’s plenty of elbow room. The screens are nice and big and I’ve never had a problem with their sound system.
The staff is very friendly and courteous. In fact, the manager let me see a trailer I wanted to see even though I had already seen my movie. He walked me into the theater that was playing it and left, trusting I would leave (and I did once the trailer was over!).
As a cool aside, on certain days if you purchase tickets for shows before noon and/​or 4pm there is a significant discount (sometimes as low as $ 6!).
This is a great theater and I enjoy seeing flicks here a lot.