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CHUCKY BUDDI MOVIE

He pumps much-needed life into a movie that devolves into another rote celebration of death.I'm a former Chemical Engineer. Faring rather better is Brian Tyree Henry (вЂњIf Beale Street Could TalkвЂќ) as a police detective whose mom (an enjoyable Carlease Burke) conveniently lives down the hall from Andy and Chucky. Still, heвЂ™s arguably less of a cipher than the sleepy-sardonic Karen, who doesnвЂ™t seem to be channeling PlazaвЂ™s signature contempt so much as receiving it. Even вЂњToy Story 4,вЂќ with its creepy Howdy Doody-style automatons, is offering a family-friendly alternative.Д«eing an AI with faulty circuitry, Chucky 2.0 doesnвЂ™t have the hilarious vulgarity or the single-minded murderous glee - the soul, if you will - that made DourifвЂ™s Chucky such an unnervingly human abomination. Your appetite for this kind of homicidal puppet show might just as well be sated by вЂњAnnabelle Comes HomeвЂќ and вЂњBrahms: The Boy II,вЂќ both due out this summer.

The first movie may have awakened every viewerвЂ™s inner pediophobe 31 years ago, but devil dolls have long since saturated the contemporary horror lexicon, and not even ManciniвЂ™s Chucky corners the market anymore. The effort here, however, feels especially futile. Its controversial development history aside, вЂњChildвЂ™s PlayвЂќ is the latest in an endless trend of vintage horror franchises getting a millennial-skewing retrofit (the best of which is probably last yearвЂ™s surprisingly adept вЂњHalloweenвЂќ sequel). Where the original doll caused an awful lot of damage with a hammer, a knife and an electroshock machine, this one works wonders with a lawn mower and a table saw. There is one memorably grisly image, but IвЂ™d lose face if I gave it away suffice to say that things get a little upchucky. The protracted murder sequences are less scary than simply sadistic and unpleasant, some of them recalling the elaborate Rube Goldberg mechanisms of the вЂњFinal DestinationвЂќ series. Whatever cautionary tale about technological dependence the movie may be advancing gets thrown out the window as Chucky begins his killing spree, setting out to eliminate anyone who dares to mistreat Andy or tries to be his friend (which means basically everyone). Chucky - an early birthday gift from AndyвЂ™s mom, Karen (Aubrey Plaza) - hails from KaslanвЂ™s implausibly popular Buddi line, which means he comes equipped with his own handy smartphone app and can do a lot more than just walk, talk and open his big blue (sometimes red) eyes.ДЇrom there, you can more or less guess how this вЂњChildвЂ™sвЂќ plays out, at least up until a bonkers climax that brings at least two Stephen King classics to mind.

Recasting the Chucky legend as an anti-technology satire is certainly a different if not exactly novel way into the material, updated here by Norwegian director Lars Klevberg and screenwriter Tyler Burton Smith.ДЄt the very least, the tech angle helps explain why an adolescent boy named Andy (Gabriel Bateman), whoвЂ™s notably a few years older than his 1988 counterpart, would want to play with such a doll in the first place.

Which is not to say that this вЂњChildвЂ™s PlayвЂќ is entirely without its brutish, haphazard pleasures. READ MORE: вЂChildвЂ™s PlayвЂ™ reboot gives Chucky a killer high-tech twist В» Fans of the real-deal Chucky movies, with their cheerfully low-rent effects and bawdy, impish humor, may well regard this slick new offering as a desecration masquerading as an upgrade. Several creative forces behind the original series, including writer-producer Don Mancini and actors Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly, have voiced their disapproval. ThereвЂ™s an unavoidable metaphor there, insofar as вЂњChildвЂ™s PlayвЂќ itself feels like something of a defective robot, though its many detractors have likened it to an example of brand betrayal. HeвЂ™s something altogether more banal, a defective robot manufactured by a powerful tech company, Kaslan, whose sleek Apple-like gadgets have all but overtaken every household.

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Beneath all the nasty jolts and vicious bloodlettings in the new вЂњChildвЂ™s PlayвЂќ is almost enough material to furnish a mildly interesting episode of вЂњBlack Mirror.вЂќ A high-tech, ultra-gory reboot of the 1988 thriller that spawned a still-ongoing horror franchise, this new movie also turns on a creepy red-haired doll named Chucky, only this time he hasnвЂ™t been supernaturally possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

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