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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanNo award winner, but at least it delivers the rubbishy goods.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineDirector Jack Bender films all this with enough style that Child's Play 3 never becomes overly boring or tedious, and there's some nicely timed tension and comic bits scattered throughout.
- 40Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonMancini's script, here as before, never rises above simple sadistic button-pushing. [30 Aug 1991, p.F13]
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovDirector Bender has fashioned a film without any surprises, though after the first two films, anyone would be hard-pressed to make audience members jump.
- 30The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesChild's Play 3, directed by Jack Bender, misses the sharpness and dark humor that the director and co-writer Tom Holland brought to the original.
- 25Washington PostRichard HarringtonWashington PostRichard HarringtonChild's Play 3 is further proof of the principle of diminishing sequels: The original was actually quite good, the follow-up was lame and now what is hopefully the capper is DOA.
- 25Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordThough this sequel is not nearly as violent as Child's Play 2, it's every bit as vulgar and preposterous, funny despite itself and vicious, too. It is, in short, of interest only to those too young to see it. [31 Aug 1991, p.E4]
- 25San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleScreenwriter Don Mancini, who created Chucky, has decided to rely on the same formulae from the earlier pictures. It doesn't give Jack Bender -- who directed TV's wonderful The Dream of Oz last year -- much of a chance to prove himself with his first feature. [30 Aug 1991, p.F3]
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanChucky the plastic slasher proves that his novelty value has long worn off.