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Post by CT on Jun 15, 2007 6:49:49 GMT -5
"For ten years, the tortured soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray has been imprisoned inside a child's doll. "Chucky" is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound. But Chucky wants his new playmate cut down to size, so he transforms his blushing bride into a stunning little terror. Chucky and Tiffany can't wait to start their own homicidal honeymoon. When this demonic duo hits the road and hooks up with a pair of unsuspecting newlyweds, they leave a trail of murder and mayhem behind them. Chucky's back! "--- --- --- --- ---Rate this movie one a scale of 0 - 5 stars. (5 being the 'best'!)
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Post by GL on Jun 16, 2007 10:28:03 GMT -5
“Bride of Chucky” is one of the better horror movies to come out in the past ten years and could be one of the best horror films of the 90's.
**SPOILERS**
Chucky's girlfriend, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) manages to find his battered remains after being sucked into the fan at the end of part 3 and brings him to life in her trailer park. Her neighbor, Jessie (Nick Stabile) and his girlfriend Jade (Katherine Heigl) are being tormented by her uncle. (John Ritter) Tiffany upsets Chucky when he refuses to marry her, so she buys a doll for him to play with. Chucky kills Tiffany, and then transfers her soul into the doll she got him. In order for them to be placed back into human bodies, they have to travel to New Jersey to retrieve an amulet to do so. Jessie sees this as an opportunity to escape from Ritter, and they set out on the journey, but not before Ritter is killed by Chucky and Tiffany. Along the way, several bizarre incidents force them to stop at a bed and breakfast. When several more people are killed, they call up their best friend (Gordon Woolvett) to straighten out the situation. They convince him neither one of them are the killers, as the police have began to solve the crimes. He finds Ritter's body in a trunk in the back of the van. Thinking he has been set up, he confronts them about it. Chucky and Tiffany then turn real to prove they did it, which gets Woolvett killed. The group steals a motor home and arrives at the cemetery. Jessie and Jade get Chucky and Tiffany to turn on each other, giving them enough to escape. Chucky recaptures Jade and forces her to get his amulet. Chucky and Tiffany restart their feud, which gives Jessie and Jade enough time to kill the both of them as the police arrive and clears them of the crimes.
The Good News: I have to give the most amount of props to the FX department, as Chucky and Tiffany as dolls look completely convincing. The scenes with them together are the movies main highlights, including a hilarious conversation where Tiffany advises Chucky on how serial killers in the 90's work. That being said, the amount of one-liners in this movie that are actually funny is incredible. Chucky gets the most of them, but Tiffany cracks a few gems as well. It is actually funnier than what Hollywood calls comedies these days. The gore is plentiful and shockingly realistic. Several deaths in this movie are actually original and creative. Turning Ritter into a new form of Pinhead was a totally brilliant scene. The honeymooning couple was a nice death scene, as well. For teenage love, the pairing of Stabile and Heigl works great. They have a great chemistry together and actually behave like a normal couple. I also have to admit that the first time I saw this movie, I did jump during certain scenes, and that shows what an incredible job director Yu did. He learned enough, apparently, to do the same thing with "Freddy vs. Jason." He knows how to stage set-ups and pay-offs, and here he shows some great skills that have a Hong Kong influenced look and style. He could be the next great horror director if he keeps filling up his resume with films like those two. Nice soundtrack, too, like "Freddy vs. Jason."
The Bad News: For fans of cheesy movies, this will be a great find. However, this film has a high cheese factor that may prevent the serious horror movie fan from having a good time enjoying this film. The film knows it is a cheesy movie and revels in it, making a serious fan turned off because of things like the one-liners. It isn't all that bad of a movie, but it has to be watched in the mind frame that it is a cheesy movie, and that the cheesiness of certain scenes add to the movie, not to take it away. Remove yourself from that state of mind and you may find yourself enjoying this movie.
The Final Verdict: Fans of cheesy movies and the other "Child's Play" movies will find a lot to like about this movie. For serious horror fans, take a look at it, but keep in mind that it isn't a serious movie and that the cheesiness is supposed to be there and you might find yourself liking it.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity on a doll, a shadowy puppet sex scene, some drug use, and numerous drug references
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Post by razors on Jun 17, 2007 15:18:55 GMT -5
The Child's Play series really changes with this movie. I consider the first three completly seperate to "Bride" and "Seed". Some things about this film are very good and some things arn't so great. I've always loved Chuckie's wise-cracks, but by making this movie more of a comedy than a horror film, they may have made Chuckie too comical to be scary. The dolls have become too likeable and too comic. It's not a scary movie. Although It's a shame that Chuckie's been changed into a comic character who is no longer scary, the film is fun. There are some very funny moments and it has some very good kills. I think this is the weakest movie, but it still gets a 3/5 because there are some great laughs and some very bloody kills.
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Post by GL on Jun 18, 2007 11:10:34 GMT -5
This is the last great scare film in the series, mostly because of a rather bleak tone. There's very little in here that's comic other than the wise-cracks, leaving the human's straight. They're quite serious, leaving them to have some pretty creepy scenes (the hotel slaughter, the kill in the van and the final showdown in the cemetery) and the opening scene is pretty creepy with a great jump.
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Post by razors on Jun 18, 2007 15:19:20 GMT -5
Some good points. I forgot that there were a few good jumps in this. I forgot to mention that the bathtub scene is great.
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Post by GL on Jun 19, 2007 11:05:56 GMT -5
Exactly the reason why this is quite good. It mixes the two effectively.
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Post by GP on Jun 27, 2007 10:55:50 GMT -5
Slick, funny, Jennifer Tilly.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 24, 2008 11:41:23 GMT -5
I have a hard time saying this isn't the best of the series. It's certainly as good as the first movie, in its own way.
One of the things that makes this such a good movie is, the script / writing is just brilliant. In every way. The discussions about romance and serial killers. The way you sort of root for the bad guys, but at the very least you fully sympathize with Tiffany. She brings an amazing amount of heart to her killer and you have to admire her even though she does terrible things. The Devil's Rejects could have borrowed a bit from this movie (and I'll bet it did: the "surprise" hit-by-a-truck sequence). The blood and gore looks very good, the death scenes are amusing, impressive, and clever.
4 out of 5. The human characters could stand a bit more writing...but this movie acts like a satire of romantic movies and road-trip movies (another thing Devil's Rejects shares with this movie; strange, huh?). And the final scene in the cemetery, with the attempted soul-switching, was a slight disappointment. Though it still maintained the great, dark humor, the movie spent a little too long there and it's a damn ugly setting.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Jan 25, 2008 5:21:59 GMT -5
by this point in the series to borrow a phrase..... they belong DEAD!
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Post by Lazario on Jan 25, 2008 9:23:50 GMT -5
If you're talking about after this film, I agree. This movie was good enough for them to have quit while they were ahead. To not strike while the iron was hot. They were lucky Bride of Chucky was this good, but they pressed it to make another film. A film that could never have been as good as Bride was.
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Post by GL on Jan 26, 2008 11:49:09 GMT -5
I wouldn't have minded ending the series, as Bride is the best one, but then I really enjoyed the wackiness Seed brought in, so it's a double-edged sword.
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