5/2/2024 0 Comments Chucky you are my buddy![]() He just repeats and mimics and then randomly kills to be Andy's friend. But when it's barely there, and still patchy, I can't stand it. I'm used to barely there plotlines as a horror lover. It's a paint-by-numbers story that is still off. Oh, plenty of laughs, but mostly at how absurd and ridiculous it was. Only these kids are generic, flat, and have zero story or any kind of objective want/need to drive their stories. Another movie that needlessly adds a "cast of kids" to ride the wave of Stranger Things. They find dead bodies and just move on like nothing happened. It's so generic and amateurish even for a kid's movie it would insult the kid's intelligence. You get over the top scenes of gore that are so tonally off with the rest of the movie. The movie is everything I hate about bad horror movies: 1. When you expect nothing you can't be disappointed, right? Wrong. I thought that guaranteed at least somewhat of a good time. I also had seen plenty of negative reviews, so my standards were pretty low. I knew not to expect "Chucky" but more of an AI gone wrong. ![]() I was willing to watch it even though the doll looked terrible and the trailer was so-so. If there was any doubt to the classical status of the original, this soulless, laughable remake is definitely it, one I'm glad I effectively saw for free on Netflix, and one I regret giving the benefit of the doubt to. Nobody talks, or acts, like a normal person would, given who they are or their situation, and its testament to how stupid and carelessly written the script is that it's like this. The deaths in the original were short, swift and brutal, but in this nonsensical remake, they're overly laborious and ridiculously dragged out (to wit, the death of a central character involving Christmas lights and a lawnmower, whereas before simply knocking a character out a top storey window would suffice.) There was a touch of light humour here and there in the original, but here Klevberg seems to be trying to make it central to the script, awkwardly inserting it in during dramatic interludes in the film where it really has no place. In the original, we knew Chucky was possessed by the soul of a serial killer (even though none of the characters did) so he could manipulate a young child to do his bidding, but there doesn't seem to be any discernible reason for this evil doll to be doing what it's doing. Instead of appearing scary in any way, everything about Buddi is laughable, most notably his annoying signature singing tune ("you are my buddy, my only friend.you are my buddy.until the end") that even plays over the bloody end credits. Here, Andy is just a typically bratty, spoiled teen, and its hard to see what appeal a doll like that would even have to a kid of that age. The innocence and naievaty of the six year old Andy made him more believable, and the there was some genuine mystery as to whether he really was a disturbed child, or the Chucky doll was really alive. It's biggest mistake is completely underestimating everything that made the original work so well. And in so doing, has presented us with a soulless, stupid film that no amount of open mindedness and 'not expecting it to be as good as the original' can overcome. And so director Lars Klevberg has presented us with a 2019 version of the 1988 classic Child's Play, involving camera phones, the internet and all the other trappings of the present day. An oft trotted out justification for this modern trend of 'reboots' of classic films from the 80s is the need to 'reimagine' them, and put a modern day spin on the film that went before. Developing an overbearing attachment to Andy, Buddi enacts his own version of justice on Andy's abusive stepdad Henry (Tim Matheson) and the kids who don't accept him, leading to an apocalyptic finale. STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Teenager Andy (Gabriel Bateman) receives a 'Buddi' doll for his birthday off his mom (Zahra Anderson.) Unbeknownst to either of them, however, the doll is programmed to replicate human behaviour (or something!) and develops the power to behave homicidally.
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