The Child's Play Remake is another hollow attempt to bring a horror classic to a new audience. As much as i like Mark Hamill and think he could put out a good performance as Chucky, Chucky in this film and the film itself is dull , bland and lifeless.
Making Chucky a malfunctioning doll does not work. Chucky works as a character because of the quirkiness of seeing serial killer Charles Lee Ray reincarnated as a doll. Its Brad Dourif's performance that makes Chucky who he is, without it you have a very boring killer doll movie, that covers the same ground as the far superior M3GAN.
Another issue with the film is that it has a weird way of injecting humor into scenes where its unnecessary and flat out ruins any tension that it begins to build. The writers obviously forgot that what makes the original Child's Play and Child's Play 2 good is that while they're absurd in concept, they're played pretty straight.
I'm not a fan of this movie, we really do need less remakes like this.
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