Seed of Chucky

November 22, 2004

Rated: R Runtime: 87 min Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

In 1988 Don Mancini wrote and scripted the very first Child’s Play film and here it is 16 years later and he is back with a 5 th one and this time he wants to direct� uh oh boys and girls someone missed the memo on knowing your limitations. The premise of the films is a fixture in poop culture (that is not a misprint) and has been since the world fell in love with the little �Good Guy� Charles Lee Ray back in the good old 80’s. The problem is, just because you can tell a story in print it doesn’t mean you can do it visually. I know we here at moviesfor guys pride ourselves on never commenting on the direction and or cinematography but in this case it could not be over looked because it sucked.

Seed of Chucky I liked the first 4 pretty good but this one just doesn’t measure up and the biggest point to bring to light is the scheduled release date. Even a half wit production assistant knows if you are going to release a horror movie it has to be at the end of summer around mid-August or anytime between the last week of September and the last week of October so you get your scares during spookie-boogins season, NOT during F’N Turkey eating season. This one didn’t have the sack to hold up to Saw or even The Grudge for that matter so they picked the safest spot in the schedule they could and if it weren’t for Tilly’s rack and the never ending giggles when Junior’s name gets called by his new master (too funny to spoil) I would have left after the opening credits. Anywho enough venting, on to the review.

Disclaimer: Don’t expect much it will be a short one.

The movie picks up about 6 years after the previous one with the little one posing as an English ventriloquist dummy where we get a few laughs but nothing really noteworthy occurs. Until one day �Junior’ voiced by Billy Boyd is watching an Access Hollywood show and notices that they are making a film based on Chucky and Tiffany’s lives so he packs up and heads to Hollywood to bring his parental units back from the dead (why?). The wee tyke is successful and when Mommy and Daddy see that they have in fact pro-created they are less than thrilled with the result. It seems the fruit of Chucky’s loins is missing the stem. So since it has neither a John Thomas or Little Miss Muffet to speak of he gets the name of Glen from Pop and Glenda from Mom� Gotta love the Ed Wood reference.

The twisted couple again voiced excellently by Brad Douriff and Jennifer Tilly decide they want more kids and they decide to populate the bodies of the star of the Chucky movie in this Chucky movie (confused or just irritated yet?), Jennifer Tilly herself and the Rapper wanna-be director Redman. They try and kill a lot people along the way where we get to see buckets of squish and ooze but the big problem is the movies lack of identity. It really isn’t horror and it isn’t deep enough to be considered dark comedy and it just isn’t consistently funny enough to be called a straight comedy�(sigh) It is just a big disappointment. And, that will do it. Any more and I will be forced to remember too much and I might be forced to do something drastic.

Posted by J.C. Edwards | Filed Under 2 Stars, Bill Boyd, Brad Dourif, Hannah Spearritt, Horror, Jennifer Tilly, R, Redman, Theatrical