Chucky looks sort of gay now, at least when his face goes from that of a still doll to a live one. When he smiles, he looks like a little fat Asian kid. The CGI, which doesn’t kick-in until about the movie’s halfway point, is to blame. The corny Freddy-like one-liners he mutters before kills, overdramatic musical score and cliché horror-flick plotting are the fault of writer and director Don Mancini.

For what it’s worth, Curse Of Chucky is better than Seed Of Chucky as it takes the series back to the more serious, less campy, tone of the original Child’s Play trilogy. There are, however, major continuity problems. Why didn’t a certain surveillance video acquit a certain character in court? I also wonder why the movie has two contradictory epilogues tacked onto the end.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013