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Okay, I'll be honest the opening to this movie is actually really cool. There's something
incredibly eerie about watching Chucky be rebuilt from his burnt husk, even if there
really is no reason as to why they're rebuilding him. In fact, this whole movie would have
not even happened if the company that made Good Guy Dolls simply did what all shady corporations
do and just blame it on someone else until the general public just forgets about it.
I'm clearly not the only one who finds this movie's existence completely arbitrary, but
I feel the cast find it that way too. The cast have all gotten substantially worse,
they've all stopped giving a ***, even Brad Dourif who's always awesome, but I mean the
foster Dad looks more like the killer than Chucky ever will. I am serious, if you're
going to ever watch Child's Play 2, do it while drunk and watch it with the idea that
the foster Dad and Chucky are working together. The crew, on the other hand, are working overtime.
The puppetry and the effects look spectacular and Don Mancini clearly has a love for this
series that can't be matched. Then again, go on his imdb page and you'll see that all
he f**king does is Chucky movies. He comes up with some pretty cool imagery for the film
like Chucky taking care of Tommy, or the note he leaves for Andy's teacher and he writes
some good lines for Chucky as well. He always inserts these little beats that keep my attention
for about a second. But that is only a second. This film is still
as dull and as boring as the last one, mainly because the kills are so improbable and rely
on the clumsiness of the victim more than anything. But also, the main character is,
what eight years old? At least in the first one we followed Chris Sarandon as well, but
why not have Kyle be the focus of this story? I'm sorry, but an eight year old kid is not
the ideal main character for a horror movie. But it wouldn't matter. You could throw all
the ideas at the wall that you can, and I doubt it would save this movie from being
the insane tedium that it is. Seriously, who actually finds Chucky scary? You might find
him fun because he gets some good lines and Brad Dourif is awesome, but that's why you
don't play this as a straight horror-movie. I'm having fun when Chucky is on screen and
talking, like in the station-wagon, but I'm never scared of him when he's attacking Andy
or Kyle. I mean, he's tiny and adorable and everything!
He still retains his stupidity from the last movie. At the very start he had the chance
to take Andy's soul, yet he decides to play doll instead. Why would it even matter if
they caught him transferring his soul, he could just kill them and be done with it!
In fact, he's still constantly threatening Andy with a knife. Is he confused or something?
Is being trapped in a doll causing him to forget why he's even after Andy? Well, *SPOILER
ALERT* He runs out of time and is stuck in the doll body forever anyway, so there you
go. Now that I think about it, the ending to this
movie is almost exactly the same as the first one, except instead of the apartment the ending
here takes place in the OHS nightmare factory. I'm serious, it actually plays the same beats.
What is it with these movies and tacking on ending scare after ending-scare? It just leaves
me yelling at the screen, "WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP AND DIE ALREADY? I've got *** to do".
It's obvious I don't like this movie. The technical competence is still there but the
film is still dumb and nonsensical. There are some parts I liked, yes that is true,
and I even find myself liking Chucky a lot more, but the simple fact remains that this
*** isn't scary. Guys, stop playing it as straight-up horror. Why do I have to go through
one more of these bloody things before they start getting a bit more horror-comedy into
their system? Oh well, whatever, let's get on with it, I suppose.