Child's Play 2019 - Luke Skywalker to the Joker to Chucky

[TrippinKahlua]

Anyone else hyped?

I normally don't like my beloved 80s movie icons be remade but this one seems real authentic.

Child's Play 2 & 3 were the first "For Adults" movies I've ever watched as a kid, so Chucky really has a special place in my heart.

Whoever cast Mark Hamil as Chucky, just know that that shows they are taking this seriously.

And if it bombs, at least I still haven't seen Cult of Chucky.

 

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Trailer for reference:

I'm hoping this works well since I too have a soft spot for the Child's Play movie. However I'm torn about Hamill's casting. Make no mistake, I really think he will give it his 110%, but... Chucky always was and always is Brad Dorif in my eyes. For me it's like having anyone else but Doug Bradley play Pinhead or having anyone else but Tony Todd play Candyman,

Still, here's to hoping.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

I can imagine the movie both be good and do well at the box office, but I'll wait till it's on home media to watch it because I'm not that big of a fan of the Child's Play/Chucky franchise. While I did enjoy Curse of Chucky, Both Cult of Chucky and Seed of Chucky was horrible!

 

[Murmur]

Is Chucky a corrupt AI now? Kind of a cool way to do it nowadays with every goddamn thing being a "smart" device in some way.

 

[cypocraphy]

I'm just hoping for some stupid fun.

 

[Quijibo69]

The original Chucky:

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Hey now, Disney is already doing its best to kill Toy Story, Chucky!

Toy Story 4 poster.


Child’s Play poster.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

I love the Chucky movies, even the newer and more comedic ones are great. If anyone new is going to voice him than Mark Hamill is probably the best bet. Let's hope it will at least turn out to be decent.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I'm Chucky IRL. Ama

 

[PL 001]

No. I've always thought killer doll movies were exceptional. I can't even really enjoy them as campy "so bad it's good" fun.

That said, Mark Hamill seems like a great choice for Chucky. I'm sure he'll be appreciated by the fans.

 

[Poiseon]

I just hope the scene with, "You talk to me or I'll throw you in the fire!" Is respectively recreated and as fucking hysterical as it was the first time.

And the fucking toy store better have a big Godzilla toy in it too! It's the little things. uwu

In all seriousness; this looks pretty good. it's weird to see movies from Hollywood that look like they're worth watching. I haven't been to the theater in like a decade but with Detective Pikachu, The new Joker Movie, and Child's Play I've been thinking of going. Maybe if this movie, and the others I mentioned are good it means Hollywood is shifting from the garbage of the last ten years. Their revenue got fucking smashed by streaming services, so they'll either have to put out quality or go out of business. Very few companies own IPs people will still go to the theater to watch. And 50% are owned by fucking Disney.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Honestly, I'm more interested in the Child's Play series that will be a continuation of the movie series (partly because Brad Dourif will still be doing Chucky).

 

[ProfDongs]

It looks better than Cult at the very least. If Chuckys big play in this movie is just transferring from one doll to the next through the network that'll, but if they have him become the network and basically a super AI that'll be very lame. The series isn't great but I've watched all of them and genuinely enjoy 1-3 and Curse, the others are nonsense though. If they have two series going that'll be neat to at least hear Brad Dourif but Hamill will probably do fine if not. They probably should have killed the original series at Curse.

 

[Bad Headspace]

Hey look, yet another remake or sequel to an old thing. Creative industry, sure.

 

[XE 600]

I have high hopes for this. After the truck loads of terrible Horror movies we've had for the past 15+ years, it looks like horror movies are going to be good again.

We've had a great adaption of Stephen King's IT (with a sequel coming this year), a new instalment in the Halloween franchise that was pretty fucking good right up until the last act and now a Child's Play remake that has caught my curiosity. I hope this isn't one of those movies where I hype myself up too much for it only to leave the cinema disappointed.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I couldn't believe what Seed of Chucky did to the franchise.

Curse of Chucky was the True Childs Play 4

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Ok, so I just watched this a couple of days ago.

Now keep in mind that I hate most remakes and I especially hate modern day horror remakes which usually feel like lazy cash grabs. Aside from Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, I can't think of a good horror remake since the turn of the century.

And admittedly, Child's Play is probably the only franchise I can think of where I am literally watching it just for one character. Give me Chucky being awesome, and I'll be okay with it. That's why I am at least willing to tolerate lesser entries like 3 and Seed. Bad movies, but hey, Chucky made me laugh, so I can live with it.

So low expectations and low set of requirements from me, but to be perfectly honest, I actually enjoyed this remake.

Its not perfect, and I prefer the stronger entries of the Child's Play series (1, 2, and Bride) but it managed to avoid falling into the same traps that other horror remakes fall into. When I look at the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, all I see is a crappy retread of a classic. It is virtually the same movie, but made without the charm, care, or creative juices that made the original a classic to begin with. The best horror remakes (The Thing, The Fly, Dawn of the Dead, etc.) are the ones that are able to approach the same premise from a different vantage point or find some other way of telling the story.

Child's Play 2019 accomplishes this with the smart device angle, which modernizes Chucky and allows for the film to stand on its own without having to rely so much on the history of the film series or the character. They didn't shoehorn Tiffany into it. They didn't have too many direct quotes from the old films (off the top of my head, I can only recall one). They found a new way to present the character and told the story appropriately.

In fact, it is so different, I wonder if the script started out as something else and they just transformed it into a Child's Play remake just to get people to care. In any case, I actually quite liked this new version of Chucky. Now as I said before, I LOVE the unapologetic murdering wisecracker Chucky voiced by Brad Dourif. He is the epitome of a fun bad guy. He's evil and he enjoys being evil, and we have fun watching him be evil. I thought for sure they'd have Mark Hamill just do an impression of Dourif and just piggyback off of that. What they did instead though was remove the supernatural elements and make Chucky a damaged toy with way more innocence than the character ever had before. He learns to be a murderer through the world around him and legitimately does want to be Andy's friend, but doesn't know how to properly act as a friend. Its almost like a modern day Frankenstein in that regard. Again, I prefer the old Chucky, but I definitely appreciate the attempt at something new, and Hamill voices him perfectly, giving him this fun sweetness that contrasts with some of the horrible acts he commits.

In taking on this approach, the movie manages to have creepiness with the doll and also a lot of dark humor sprinkled in as well, which feels like it is true to the spirit of the older films. And hey, I liked the cast this time around too. Though it is weird seeing her play the mom in a film now, Aubrey Plaza was fun as Andy's mother, and going a little bit older with Andy this time around at least allowed for a better actor to take the role. His friends were a little annoying, but not enough to hurt the film. And again, the whole smart device aspect gave the film a different angle, and Chucky trying to legitimately be Andy's friend gave the film more of a heart than it would have had otherwise. Oh and I am going to have The Buddi Song stuck in my head forever, so kudos to Bear McCreary and Mark Hamill on that one.

Certain elements of the film are rushed, and once Chucky starts acting violent, it seemed a little weird that Andy didn't get rid of him immediately, but all in all, I had a fun time with this, and hey, if I get to enjoy Chucky and smile a bit, then the Child's Play movie did all I asked of it.

TL;DR, I liked the film and I say it is worth a look.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I thought it was pretty good.

 

[Miller]

Oh and I am going to have The Buddi Song stuck in my head forever, so kudos to Bear McCreary and Mark Hamill on that one.

It looks like Bear had a blast doing the score for the movie.