Seed
of Chucky (2004)
3/10
Starring
Jennifer
Tilly
Billy
Boyd
Brad
Dourif
Redman
Directed
by Don Mancini
Seed
of Chucky is more comedy than horror, more silly than needed. And on
hind sight after seeing this, while watching the whole franchise
backwards it seems the whole thing went to shit long before the ones
that followed.
The LGBT kind of themed
result of Chucky and Tiffany’s was confusing, but the comedy
tied to it was not. The movie was so heavy on being absurd and different
that it forgot it was trying to scare you too. The comedy may have
been easy on the eye to keep you watching to the end, but everything
else was not.
The
movie before this one Bride of Chucky, and this movie was the fifth installment in the Child's Play franchise. That ended with Tiffany
giving birth to a doll like kid. Some how that child (named Glen)
ended up in the U.K. with a British accent.
He
was being used in a circus like way by a man who used him as a
ventriloquist's dummy. After performances he is locked in a cage. One
day while watching T.V. he sees a Chucky and Tiffany doll, and
realizes that they must be his parent. Which is dumb writing from the
man who has been behind the franchise since inception, Don Mancini.
(Mancini also directed this movie making it this his directorial
debut).
Reason
of it being dumb is that, if Glen had seen another doll couple on
T.V. would he had also assume they were his parents? He solved this
puzzle because Chucky like him had the same made in Japan stamp,
which can also be on any doll made in Japan.
The
reason his parents (the dolls) were on T.V. is because a movie was
being made about them, as the dolls were being suspected for various
murders.
Well
he escaped from his cage and one way or another found his way to the
storage where Chucky and Tiffany was. How he was able to deduce this
is, not said.
Then
he had on his neck a necklace which had the ancient inscription used
to transfer souls, which both his parents had used in earlier films.
He
read them and bringing Chucky and Tiffany’s souls into the dolls.
Anyways,
Chucky and Tiffany wake up to meet Glen and they started a weird
family with Tiffany trying to change and be a good mother and Chucky
happy with the way things are.
The
complexity of their relationship and Tiffany trying to start a
family, by taking over Jennifer Tilly’s body and more complexity is
what this movie is about.
The
movie was made in a modern era of filming, which would have done more
justice to the first film, if it was released at that time. The plot
is just full of holes and too silly to be taken seriously.
The
CGI was not spectacular and other than the dolls and Jennifer Tilly,
everyone else in the movie did not seem to think this movie was a
serious thing to invest in.
I’m
glad Don Mancini has been removed from the franchise reboot. This was
not a spectacular movie I tell you.
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