The new Child’s
Play reboot is cool after a patient wait to see Chucky go rogue. It starts
small, with Chucky building his way up from killing a cat to an all-out
massacre. The movie is fun to watch, and the change in the plot and Chucky’s
origin is refreshing, but you might wish it had been creepier from the
early stages. It takes a while for Chucky to get obsessed with handling his
obstacles—and eventually, even Andy becomes an obstacle as Chucky tries to
please him.
I enjoyed the movie, and fans of the old franchise will likely enjoy it too. Yes, you might miss the idea of a serial killer’s soul possessing a doll, but honestly, that concept felt overused to the point of exhaustion. Notably, neither Don Mancini (the creator involved in all the original Child’s Play movies) nor Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky in all seven previous films) are involved in this reboot. Instead, Mark Hamill voices Chucky, and he’s absolutely magnificent.
The changes are
obvious from the get-go. Instead of
the Good Guy Doll, we have the Buddi doll. In the original, the Good Guy Doll
was just a doll possessed by a serial killer’s soul, making it kill.
Here, the Buddi doll is a broken toy that glitches its way into becoming a
serial-killing doll.
The story begins
in the factory where these dolls are made. An employee, wanting to get back at
the company (or maybe his line manager), decides the best way to do this is by
removing all the safety features from a Buddi doll before shipping it out. This
causes the doll to malfunction, and when it’s bought, it’s quickly returned to
the store because of its glitches. The store clerk who receives the returned
doll is Andy’s mom. As a single mom trying hard to make ends meet for her and
her son, she sees the free doll as a great deal and takes it home for Andy.
Andy immediately
notices something is off with Chucky, especially when the doll tries to
strangle their cat for scratching Andy. Andy tells Chucky not to do that again,
but the doll’s behavior only escalates. Chucky always wants to play, but Andy
has made new friends, and the doll doesn’t like that. Chucky decides to make
Andy happy by eliminating anyone—or doing anything—it believes will keep Andy
to itself as his best friend.
The movie ends
with room for a sequel, but with its slow start at the box office, it’ll need
to make a huge splash overseas for that to happen.
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