Seed of Chucky Review

Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!

Plot Summary: Once again, Chucky is resurrected to do whatever it is he's supposed to be doing in this franchise.

Review: If you want to skip everything I wrote, suffice to say, I can sum up my feelings as this: I HATE this fucking movie! I'm like Anakin burning from lava in Episode III, screaming at this piss poor excuse for a film. I hardly know where to begin with this entry, because I honestly never wanted to watch it again. Obviously it's, by far, the worst film in the entire franchise and plain stupid naturally. Chucky 4 tried to be comedic and they mindlessly chose to continue with that path despite the fan outrage. If you imagine pretty much every facet of storytelling that can go wrong in a production, this film suffers from virtually every single one of those problems. Of said problems, the biggest offenders are that the story makes no sense and lacks continuity, and the characters are annoying, idiotic, and inconsistent. I should also mention, from my perspective, the film failed hardest at the thing it was striving to accomplish most: to be funny. There wasn't a noticeable logic to the movies it tried to parody nor was there as much mockery of the franchise itself as with Chucky 4.

This is the first Chucky that doesn't open by showing us how Chucky comes back to life; even part one technically did this. Changing things up might not be too bad, but instead we have P.O.V. from Chucky's kid, who I will refer to as Glen, dreaming about killing. We learn that through some incomprehensible contrivance some random guy found Glen in the cemetery after part 4. Wait, what? How? Where were the rest of the police? This guy decides to keep Glen despite the fact that Glen would have just killed the one detective? Why is a random English guy roaming around a cemetery in the USA? Why would he keep that fucking amulet from part 4? And why would he think to keep Glen for a ventriloquism show rather than trying to profit off of reporting him to some scientific journal or something? Anyway, Glen doesn't know who or what he is until he sees a show promoting a Chucky inspired movie. Again...WHAT?! They are making a movie on the mere assumption that Chucky and Tiffany are killer dolls simply because they were at the crime scene? How the fuck do they know their names were Chuck and Tiffany?! What about all of Andy's ravings from the first 3 movies?! No association whatsoever? How do they know what Tiffany looked like considering she was burnt to a crisp? Oh how fucking convenient that Jennifer Tilly is cast in the film too, right (although I did like that)? Why would Glen have "Made in Japan" printed on his arm? Let's just say maybe Good Guys were manufactured in Japan (which is highly unlikely), why would we only be seeing this now? On top of that, it stills makes no sense why the Hollywood Chucky would have this mark since he's a production animatronic! How the hell does Glen go from the UK to the USA unnoticed? For the love of FUCK! The amount of contrivances, plot holes, and continuity errors apparent are nauseating.

The only good thing at this point is that the aforementioned Chucky-based movie takes place at Christmas--that would have been a better idea than this whole damn movie that's for sure! And Ms. Tilly making fun of herself is somewhat amusing, but you kind of need a working knowledge of her film career to fully appreciate it. I should stress that, while I do like the movie within a movie concept, this time it serves as yet another contrivance to offer up a way to bring the two dolls back to life without explaining how they could be reconstructed after part 4; and after a certain point we don't hear shit about that Hollywood movie anymore...so what was the point really?! They don't even properly parody Hollywood since the jokes are sporadic, and they only point out the annoyance of the paparazzi which isn't exclusive to Hollywood to boot. Whatever, so Glen finds the animatronic Chucky and Tiffany dolls at the studio and only says the first line in Chucky's voodoo chant and apparently that's all it takes now to bring the two dolls back to life. I thought the fucking point of all this voodoo crap was that it let you switch bodies? What happened to that? Wasn't the point of why Chucky kept coming back was because he specifically possessed that Good Guy doll?! If you could bring Chucky back so easily, why did Tiffany need the original body from part 3? And when the dolls are brought back, their bodies automatically become "human" despite still having screws and shit? How convenient that now Chucky and Tiffany are on such good terms considering how they ended things in part 4. And why would Ms. Tilly show up looking for a candy bar? She was already shown at an audition, with some dude named "Redman," yet we are to believe she'd come all the way back for a fucking candy bar? And there's a pointless bonus plotline about Ms. Tilly and her driver somewhat having a relationship...why? Nothing makes sense no matter how hard you try to rationalize this shit. "It's not supposed to be serious, Ryan!" It doesn't have to be, but at least be respectful to your own stupid material that fans liked, and, on top of that, don't bombard me with constant retardation as if I should simply accept it. Rika...help me here!

There are multiple characters added for the sake of bolstering the body count, but most interesting is Hannah Spearritt from "S Club 7" (ain't no party like an S club party!). Well, don't worry, she gets killed off needlessly and her character serves no purpose except to help with the Ms. Tilly related jokes. Moving along, the Chucky family somehow goes unnoticed as they get a ride in Ms. Tilly's limo and further go unnoticed hiding out in her attic as well. They concoct some idiotic plan to impregnate Ms. Tilly with Chucky's sperm to give birth to a voodoo baby for Glen to possess and Chucky and Tiffany will possess "Redman" and Ms. Tilly. In the meantime, this film stresses its unusual homage to "Glen or Glenda" since Glen is androgynous and Chucky and Tiffany would prefer he pick a gender respectfully; Glen also has some crazy, killer split personality conveniently. You'd think they would spend time parodying, I don't know, maybe horror movies! This is just like in part 4 where they appear to be inspired by "Bride of Frankenstein" but then use "Romeo and Juliet" instead. There is yet another pointless plot line about how they need to stop killing since Glen doesn't like it and they want to be a more normal family. Ugh...uhhh...is this a fucking family drama or a Chucky movie?! I keep thinking of "Child's Play" and then back to this movie, and I'm trying to reconcile their coexistence in my mind but it's not working!

Eventually the voodoo baby is born, but it turns out to be twins as like the millionth contrivance thus far. Chucky comes to terms with being, well, Chucky, and expresses he likes being a killer doll; this is one of the few highlights all film. Tiffany doesn't like this, and neither does Glen I suppose, and they momentarily fight. This is pointless, because they still end up at the hospital and continue fighting after a nonsensical "The Shining" reference. Tiffany is seemingly killed before transferring her spirit into Ms. Tilly which is followed by Glen killing Chucky by dismemberment--oh come on!.We skip to five years later and obviously Tiffany was successful in possessing Ms. Tilly as if this is some cool twist. Glen has somehow possessed both voodoo twins...but having split personalities doesn't mean you have two souls, it would mean you have one fractured soul and then...oh fucking forget it! So blah blah blah, Chucky mails his arm to a birthday party they're throwing for the twins and it comes to life...the end? Uhhhhhhhhhhh aahhhhhh. I hate this movie.

The stupidity and asinine nature of this film speaks for itself I think. I swear, not a scene goes by without having a contrivance and/or continuity errors and plot holes. There were rare good ideas, like making fun of Ms. Tilly and the movie within a movie concept, but they are totally wasted and ultimately amount to padding or more contrivances. With every passing second of this film I could feel my blood boiling and my desire to go homicidal increasing. This movie sucks, plain and simple. There's nothing left to say.

Notable Moment: When Chucky appears to kill Britney Spears. This is mildly amusing and the lookalike is impressive.

Final Rating: 3.5/10