![]() ![]() Brian Tyree Henry plays the cop swept up in it all his mother lives in the same apartment building as the Barclays, where the murders keep piling up.Įven as Chucky’s inexplicable death plot roiled on, I couldn’t help but be charmed by the cast’s spunky line readings - like early on, when Plaza, with mock insouciance, jokes about being a juvenile mother: “I had a very productive sweet sixteen.” But Tyler Burton Smith’s script hardly challenges either of the adult actors, both of whom have proven to be magnetic performers adept at comedy and drama. ![]() Due to a settings glitch, Chucky’s contemporary incarnation (voiced by a cutesy-creepy Mark Hamill, who has done better voice work elsewhere) eventually goes the way of his predecessor, wreaking widespread havoc - just with a lot less panache. In 2019, Aubrey Plaza plays Karen Barclay, the young mom to Andy (13-year-old Gabriel Bateman of Annabelle and Lights Out fame), who by chance receives an AI-equipped Buddi doll after the defective toy is returned to his mother’s store. Unfortunately, Child’s Play is undone by a lack of tension even its best performances can’t conjure, and a familiar story that only skips lightly along the surface of gnarly ideas. Garish Christmas lights and drones equipped with razors - both of which feature in the film as fantastic weaponry - are amusing, but they’re only as effective as the limp horror story around it. Child’s Play, the new slasher reboot of the Chucky franchise, directed by Lars Klevberg, half works. ![]()
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