This movie is 100% garbage.
I was willing to watch it even though the doll looked terrible and the trailer was so-so. I knew not to expect "Chucky" but more of an AI gone wrong. I also had seen plenty of negative reviews, so my standards were pretty low.
I thought that guaranteed at least somewhat of a good time. When you expect nothing you can't be disappointed, right? Wrong.
The movie is everything I hate about bad horror movies:
1. Gore replaces originality. You get over the top scenes of gore that are so tonally off with the rest of the movie.
2. Dialogue was written by a toddler. It's so generic and amateurish even for a kid's movie it would insult the kid's intelligence. That's how low it is.
3. Character act unrealistically. They find dead bodies and just move on like nothing happened. No real reaction. No trauma. No long term effects.
4. Another movie that needlessly adds a "cast of kids" to ride the wave of Stranger Things. Only these kids are generic, flat, and have zero story or any kind of objective want/need to drive their stories. They are just tools. Boring ones.
5. Chucky is a mess. He sounds ridiculous. He's not funny. He's not cute. He's certainly not threatening.
6. Humor is bad. Oh, plenty of laughs, but mostly at how absurd and ridiculous it was. The actual jokes rarely landed.
7. The storyline is just bad. It's a paint-by-numbers story that is still off. I'm used to barely there plotlines as a horror lover. But when it's barely there, and still patchy, I can't stand it. How do you ruin "generic". It's generic for a reason.
8. Chucky has no personality. None whatsoever. He just repeats and mimics and then randomly kills to be Andy's friend.
9. Andy and Chucky share very few scenes prior to the killing, yet andy act very emotional when chucky needs to be put down. It was just so emotionally unrealistic. He seemed more disturbed by shutting down a doll he had for 2 seconds than finding the ripped off face of a human being.
I don't mind bad horror movies. I do mind stupid ones that don't make sense. That are generic, and still inconsistent, and pointless.
I can't think of a single positive thing about this movie. Even the acting as very basic, and not at all good.
I was willing to watch it even though the doll looked terrible and the trailer was so-so. I knew not to expect "Chucky" but more of an AI gone wrong. I also had seen plenty of negative reviews, so my standards were pretty low.
I thought that guaranteed at least somewhat of a good time. When you expect nothing you can't be disappointed, right? Wrong.
The movie is everything I hate about bad horror movies:
1. Gore replaces originality. You get over the top scenes of gore that are so tonally off with the rest of the movie.
2. Dialogue was written by a toddler. It's so generic and amateurish even for a kid's movie it would insult the kid's intelligence. That's how low it is.
3. Character act unrealistically. They find dead bodies and just move on like nothing happened. No real reaction. No trauma. No long term effects.
4. Another movie that needlessly adds a "cast of kids" to ride the wave of Stranger Things. Only these kids are generic, flat, and have zero story or any kind of objective want/need to drive their stories. They are just tools. Boring ones.
5. Chucky is a mess. He sounds ridiculous. He's not funny. He's not cute. He's certainly not threatening.
6. Humor is bad. Oh, plenty of laughs, but mostly at how absurd and ridiculous it was. The actual jokes rarely landed.
7. The storyline is just bad. It's a paint-by-numbers story that is still off. I'm used to barely there plotlines as a horror lover. But when it's barely there, and still patchy, I can't stand it. How do you ruin "generic". It's generic for a reason.
8. Chucky has no personality. None whatsoever. He just repeats and mimics and then randomly kills to be Andy's friend.
9. Andy and Chucky share very few scenes prior to the killing, yet andy act very emotional when chucky needs to be put down. It was just so emotionally unrealistic. He seemed more disturbed by shutting down a doll he had for 2 seconds than finding the ripped off face of a human being.
I don't mind bad horror movies. I do mind stupid ones that don't make sense. That are generic, and still inconsistent, and pointless.
I can't think of a single positive thing about this movie. Even the acting as very basic, and not at all good.