3/28/2024 0 Comments Buddi chucky dollKaren, the single mother of young Andy (Gabriel Bateman), wants to make her son happy but doesn't have enough money to buy him much of anything, so she blackmails her terrible boss into letting her take Buddi home. Of course, our Buddi doll ends up in the hands of a consumer who returns her defective present to Karen (Plaza), who works behind the counter at a Target-esque superstore. In the original, a psychopath dies and takes over the soul of an innocent toy, but, hey, it's 2019 Trump's America, so why not go the whole xenophobic route and blame the ills of mankind on an Asian person? Still, I'm willing to go with this concept under the guise that the movie aims to be worldly instead of racist…which is a stretch but there's still 88 minutes left of this dumb film, so I gotta hang my hat on something. Things start offensively enough when a disgruntled Vietnamese factory worker, furious that he's just been fired, deactivates the filters on one of the Buddi dolls, taking away his filters which prevent him from swearing and, oh yeah, murdering people. Child's Play gets a perfunctory update just so the storyline can include things like apps and drones, but at its core, it wishes so hard that it was actually made in the 80s that it ends up feeling redundant. Who's darker? The deadpan goth chick or the murderous doll? I don't know, but I couldn't wait to find out…and then I saw the movie. On paper, Aubrey Plaza in a reboot of a 1988 horror classic sounds like a match made in that forbidding recess of hell I'd love to visit. Show Less Show MoreĬHUCK IT - My Review of CHILD'S PLAY (2 Stars) The original Chucky is still the number one true Chucky in my opinion and this is just an interesting fresh take on a true cult film. It begs the question why they didn't make a whole new character and attempt a fresh story idea. This film is a little soulless and I blame the filmmaker decision on this. I thought the decision to reboot was a haste decision and without true merit, considering the devotion I have for the core series. I love the original series and will be re-watching the series for Halloween. The film is quite shocking and it serves up some twisted evil by the new Chucky doll. Chucky just lacks the personality that Dourif has established and Hamill hasn't got the right film to be immersed in to clearly set him apart from the core franchise. Child's Play didn't need a reboot when the original filmmaker is still punching out content for the current series. Fans of the original series will be slightly annoyed here, and justly so.
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