When a cat scratches Andy, it goes right on Chucky’s shit list, and unfortunately, Chucky’s safety filters are nonexistent. If you’ve ever seen a movie where a robot with the capacity to learn is slowly corrupted by the people around it, you’ll know where Child’s Play is going. ”)Ĭhucky and Andy (Gabriel Bateman) play a board game. (“Are you sure his eyes are supposed to look like they’re different sizes? OK, I guess. The doll’s face doesn’t become more or less demonic based on his state of mind - he’s just as unsettling and warped from scene to scene, like a version of Chucky (rendered through animatronic dolls and the help of some CGI) had been put through a game of telephone. Instead of being a serial killer’s soul trapped in the body of a doll, the new Chucky (voiced by Hamill) is simply a robot “Buddi” doll who misunderstands what will make his new friend Andy (Gabriel Bateman) happy. ![]() I’m also a sucker for movies about robots with feelings, which is essentially what this Child’s Play - which sure is gory, if not as funny as it wants to be - is for its entire first half. ![]() I’ve never seen any of Don Mancini’s Child’s Play movies (I’m sorry!), though I’m aware that he’s still working on the series, and that his lack of involvement with this remake has cast a pall over it. I’m sure some of my goodwill towards the new Child’s Play comes from the fact that I have no attachment to the original franchise. “You are my buddy until the end,” Mark Hamill warbles - which, obviously, I love - before weirdly syncopated drums kick in, and the increasing number of heavy-handed musical accoutrements take me from happily complacent to wondering if I might have made a huge mistake. ![]() How I feel about Child’s Play, the remake/reboot of the 1988 slasher of the same name, roughly correlates to how I feel about “ The Buddi Song,” the cutesy anthem of the new film.
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