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Seed of Chucky
Yep, that ugly toy with the killer's instinct is back for a
fifth round of irreverent bloodshed in Seed of Chucky. Chucky and his
plastic partner Tiffany are reanimated by their child, a gentle doll of
indeterminate gender who'd prefer that his parents stopped their
knife-wielding ways. No such luck.
In an attempt at irony that also includes
John Waters as a tabloid reporter, Jennifer Tilly (who also voices Tiffany)
is asked to play herself, a B-grade actress tired of being stuck in a movie
filled with murderous dolls. She courts rap star Redman, playing himself,
when she hears he's looking for someone to play the mother of Jesus in a new
film. Chuck, Tiffany, and spawn naturally interrupt such ridiculous plans.
Writer/director Don Mancini has the trio doing things you have to see to
believe, including a vivid disembowelment and a human impregnation featuring
a turkey baster filled with, you guessed it, the seed of Chucky. It's junk,
sure, and tension-free, but Tilly's willing self-debasement is fairly
jaw-dropping. If you're so inclined, her shameless decision to play along
may be reason enough to suffer the consequences. --Steve Wiecking,
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Synopsis
Everyone's favourite plastic slasher doll, Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif),
returns for a fifth instalment of this popular horror series. Apparently
Chucky and his equally murderous bride, Tiffany (voiced by Jennifer Tilly),
had a child, which has grown up in a cage as part of a heavy-metal
ventriloquist act in England.
Eventually it (one never learns its exact
gender) escapes to Los Angeles to revive mom and pop, whose doll corpses are
being used for a movie based on their previous killing spree. Jennifer Tilly
shows up as herself, and she's great--hamming it up as a floozy actress so
desperate for the part in rapper Redman's latest film that she lures him
home for a casting couch tryst, with hilarious (and fatal) results.
Meanwhile, the child of Chucky is horrified by the violent murders its
parents are so fond of committing and, with a little help from a 12-step
book, tries to help them kick the homicide habit.
Of course it's hard when
there are so many deserving targets around, including John Waters as a scuzzy paparazzi. In sum, this is one crazy sequel; it's got a refreshing
lack of morals, a light heart, and a clever script with a lot of great
insider jokes for buffs. The gore is extreme though, including
eviscerations, beheadings, melting flesh, and other raunchy business that
makes its R rating well-earned (no true Chucky fan would have it any other
way, of course). Rappers Eminem and Big Pun contributed tracks to the score.
Chucky, Tiffany and
Glen(da)
Seed of Chucky (or Child's Play 5) is a much better movie than most of
these reviews suggest it is. Similar to Bride of Chucky, this is more
Comedy than Horror but it is still a funny, gory slasher movie.
The movie starts as Glen heads to Hollywood with plans of bringing his
parents (Chucky and Tiffany) back from the dead. However, they run into
some family problems along the way as Chucky insists that Glen is a boy
while Tiffany says that Glenda is a girl. As well as arguing over the
gender of their child, Chucky and Tiffany go on a bloody killing-spree
to the horror of their offspring, Glen(da).
Seed of Chucky is a funny (and sometimes scary) movie with plenty of
blood and gore. I was surprised to see that when they brought back the
Child's Play series (first "Bride of...", now this) they turned it more
or less into a comedy, but I like these just as much as the Child's
Play movies.
I would recommend this movie to fans of either horror or comedy movies
and to anybody who enjoyed the previous Chucky movies, especially Bride
of Chucky. |
