Seed of Chucky Review
by Jerry Saravia (faustus_08520 AT yahoo DOT com)May 8th, 2006
SEED OF CHUCKY (2004)
Reviewed by Jerry Saravia
RATING: One star
I argued briefly with a friend of mine that the "Lethal
Weapon" films got progressively worse after number 2
and became comedies. My friend felt that the third entry
was the best because of the humor. So it goes with
sequels. The original "Child's Play" was a first-rate thriller
about a killer doll with the mind of a psychopath (though
"Trilogy of Terror" has the scariest doll ever seen). Then
came "Child's Play 2" and "3" and they were as bad as
sequels get. Director Ronny Yu injected new life into the
series with "Bride of Chucky," which came on the heels
of the "Scream" postmodernist horror trend. "Bride of
Chucky" was more funny than scary but it was at least
entertaining. "Seed of Chucky" is an aberration and an
abomination, a movie so awful that I was more sickened
by it than anything else. I am no prude and I enjoy horror
films. Horror movie parodies is another matter but "Seed
of Chucky" is wildly uneven with its mix of blood splatter
and bad Hollywood puns that went out of style shortly
after Robert Altman's "The Player" in 1992.
Consider what I thought this movie was going to be. I
thought Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) and his bride,
Tiffany (voiced by Jennifer Tilly), were going to have a
baby (ick!) and discover that the baby was far more
murderous and psychotic than they were (at least the
teaser trailer seemed to hint that). But the movie begins
with a sexually ambiguous doll (voiced by Billy Boyd)
that runs away in E.T. style from an abusive ventriloquist.
The Doll With No Name is looking for his parents and
discovers they are Chucky and Tiffany, who are being
used as props for a movie called "Chucky Goes
Psycho." So the doll brings Chucky and Tiffany back
to life thanks to an amulet. Oh, and for students of
postmodernist horror, Jennifer Tilly plays herself and
Tiffany, and there are precious few digs at Hollywood
and at Tilly herself. Then we have rapper Redman as a
film director making a movie about the Virgin Mary (a rap
song about the Virgin would've been funnier) yet he
prefers to cast Julia Roberts over Tilly (once again, the
Julia phenomenon was more effectively used in "The Player").
Yes, "Seed of Chucky" has the requisite blood and gore.
There's also a Britney Spears look-alike and John Waters
as a determined paparazzi. But the movie is not even
gruesome fun and stalls at truly mocking Jennifer Tilly and
the Hollywood game. What I found were homages to Ed
Wood and Brian De Palma, glorified gore, truly lame
jokes and in-jokes, and a sickening feeling that the Chucky
franchise is far from over.
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