Chucky gets lucky. Chucky needs sucky-sucky. It’s been a long ten years that sweet old serial killer Charles Lee Ray voodoo’d himself into a small plastic kids doll and that’s a hell of a long time with no action. Luckily for Chucky ex-flame Tiffany is on the scene ready to revive him. But all does not go according to Tiff’s plan as she discovers her one true love truly wasn’t right or ready for marriage and ends up being trapped inside a doll herself. So now it’s a race against time to find Ray’s corpse before local authorities exhume it.
It had been 7 years before Chucky himself had been revived onto the big screen and it was about time too. Never seen as the one of the scarier films in the past decades but iconically Chucky and his unique sense of blood shedding humour is still as recognisable today as it once was then.
By the time Child’s Play 3 came along we had all become aware how this particular franchise was taking a different approach. And it was definitely not taking itself seriously anymore. The inclusion of a sub-title such as ‘Look Who’s Stalking’ gives that impression from the off. So is it a good move? Absolutely – it’s no good trying to be scary and not even succeeding so by turning it on its head, putting a spin on all things past and just going with the flow this tongue-in-cheek offering offers more than most. And the fourth instalment does this new direction justice.
It must be satisfying after all these years that the makers of the ‘Bride of Chucky’ felt confident enough to drop the ‘Child’s Play’ title and just stick with the name of Chucky to give it its identity. Something that has also worked well with director Ronny Yu’s other most recent horror offering and revival, ‘Freddy vs. Jason’.
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But after all this is the film any good? Actually it is. Actually it’s pretty slick and it’s pretty decent. And all in all it’s a great laugh. Good performances from the ensemble cast and it’s always refreshing to see how grown Katherine Heigl has become in the cleavage area.
