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Buddi is a doll produced by the Kaslan Corporation. It's a high-tech companion that can connect to the myriad of Kaslan products. A disgruntled employee turns off all the safeguards in one of the dolls. Karen Barclay (Aubrey Plaza) is a struggling single mom to hearing impaired Andy. She is desperate to get a Buddi and the store cashier takes a damaged returned doll from her workplace. The doll insists on being called Chucky. Detective Mike Norris (Brian Tyree Henry) is the son of the Barclays' neighbor. Chucky, with the bad programming, starts killing and Detective Mike investigates.

This is NOT Chucky. This is not the franchise. This is all wrong. The doll is ugly AF. Chucky is a beautiful horror icon. If one overlooks those stuff, this is actually a well-made horror movie. It seems to dabble in some camp but mostly, it's a sincere horror. Before watching it, I had full expectation of an ugly mess. The first visual is the ugly mug of the doll and it seems to be well on its way. Somehow, the camp slowly faded and it gets replaced by a competent effort in all areas. The kids are great rooting interest. Aubrey Plaza is a fine mom with an edge. I am struck by the sense that the movie is in good hands. I have never seen anything from this director but maybe I will keep an eye out for him in the future.

The movie was a really wild ride. It was really scary even though the main villain is a doll. It was bloody and one of the best reboots. Really good jumpscares. The acting was perfect. I recommend you to watch the movie.

This was fun to watch. This film is not a remake of the original Child's Play films, but rather a different, futuristic take on them. The acting is decent, and the death's are pretty brutal. I recommend this if you're after a fun slasher film.

Child's Play Returns With A Exceptional Reboot, Phenomenal Cast, And A Extraordinary Storyline. The Original Child's Play Film Has Forever Been A Treasure For Child's Play Fans Starring Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay, following him in Child's Play 2 thereafter. The 2019 reboot kept the franchise alive with Gabriel Bateman as Andy Barclay, Gabriel did a incredible job his acting and character portraying sparked the audience. Looking forward in seeing Child's Play 2 and Child's Play 3 reboot next. Child's Play deserves to be back. Hope to see Alex Vincent make a return too. Great job on this. The entire world enjoyed this one. Stunning work guys. Thumbs up.

I went in with low expectations and it was actually good, check it out or don't you dingus.

For your health!

This movie was not Chucky. Not scary, not fun, not funny. Not enough kills to keep the viewer satisfied. Overall a remake that nobody asked for.

Scored it 1 because I can't give it a zero. Everything about this is awful. Everything. I Truly don't even know where to begin, it's extremely cringey and laughable. I have been a long term Chucky fan and I thought nothing could be worse than Seed of Chucky, but these guys managed to do it. Had to stop and try to resume watching it later multiple times, it was that bad. I need to go do a marathon of the originals again and hopefully wipe this trash out of my brain.

A kind of mix between Black Mirror and the first Chucky ornament. Childs Play is a good movie, with a lot of dark humor and violent scenes that will appeal to horror lovers. The use of old-fashioned animatronics effects is a pleasure, and even if the film evolves in a very technological universe, the atmosphere of the film manages to make the best of the film of the 80s / 90s.

This movie is a total disgrace to the Child's Play franchise, period! Where do I start? The acting, the directing, and even the script are all garbage. How did they release this thing???

I think this movie works best if you go into it watching it on it's own terms, as it's own thing and not thinking of it as a Child's play remake because if you're a Chucky purist you probably will hate this movie because it takes so much of what you love about the Child's play movies and totally tosses it out and replaces it with something totally different. But for me, I could watch it on it's own terms and I enyojed what this movie had to give by making Chucky AI that actually does want to be Andy's friend but it is deeply broken on the inside. It's able to explore some very different things like friendship, jealousy and it takes things in a very different direction. For me it's not as good as the original, but I can still have a lot of fun with it.

I am struggling to understand how this film is causing such heated feelings, reviews of 1 and 10 stars, I cannot recognise either. It's very much a middle of the road film, the acting is decent, production values are half decent, overall it's not bad.

If you want scares and originality, then you need to look elsewhere, there aren't any here. In its favour, they took the original concept of the movie and tinkered with it to make it relevant for 2019, society and technology are very different to the time of the original.

I'd have liked this when I was about 15, it's silly horror, it has a few laughs, and doesn't take itself seriously at all.

It's a film about a killer doll, don't expect Tolstoy.

They tried, they did ok, 6/10.

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Teenager Andy (Gabriel Bateman) receives a 'Buddi' doll for his birthday off his mom (Zahra Anderson.) Unbeknownst to either of them, however, the doll is programmed to replicate human behaviour (or something!) and develops the power to behave homicidally. Developing an overbearing attachment to Andy, Buddi enacts his own version of justice on Andy's abusive stepdad Henry (Tim Matheson) and the kids who don't accept him, leading to an apocalyptic finale.

An oft trotted out justification for this modern trend of 'reboots' of classic films from the 80s is the need to 'reimagine' them, and put a modern day spin on the film that went before. And so director Lars Klevberg has presented us with a 2019 version of the 1988 classic Child's Play, involving camera phones, the internet and all the other trappings of the present day. And in so doing, has presented us with a soulless, stupid film that no amount of open mindedness and 'not expecting it to be as good as the original' can overcome.

It's biggest mistake is completely underestimating everything that made the original work so well. The innocence and naievaty of the six year old Andy made him more believable, and the there was some genuine mystery as to whether he really was a disturbed child, or the Chucky doll was really alive. Here, Andy is just a typically bratty, spoiled teen, and its hard to see what appeal a doll like that would even have to a kid of that age. Instead of appearing scary in any way, everything about Buddi is laughable, most notably his annoying signature singing tune ("you are my buddy, my only friend...you are my buddy...until the end") that even plays over the bloody end credits. In the original, we knew Chucky was possessed by the soul of a serial killer (even though none of the characters did) so he could manipulate a young child to do his bidding, but there doesn't seem to be any discernible reason for this evil doll to be doing what it's doing.

The deaths in the original were short, swift and brutal, but in this nonsensical remake, they're overly laborious and ridiculously dragged out (to wit, the death of a central character involving Christmas lights and a lawnmower, whereas before simply knocking a character out a top storey window would suffice.) There was a touch of light humour here and there in the original, but here Klevberg seems to be trying to make it central to the script, awkwardly inserting it in during dramatic interludes in the film where it really has no place. Nobody talks, or acts, like a normal person would, given who they are or their situation, and its testament to how stupid and carelessly written the script is that it's like this.

If there was any doubt to the classical status of the original, this soulless, laughable remake is definitely it, one I'm glad I effectively saw for free on Netflix, and one I regret giving the benefit of the doubt to. *

Decent terror film with awful murders by the malevolent creature attacking unsuspecting people. Thrilling and horrifying if somewhat moronic movie with nice special effects. Mindless and so-so horror film is packed with thrills, intrigue, suspense, horror , interminable screams with no much sense. After moving to a new city, young Andy Barclay (Gabriel Bateman) receives a special present from his mother (Aubrey Plaza) a seemingly innocent Buddi doll (Mark Hamill's voice) that becomes his best friend. When the doll suddenly takes on a life of its own, Andy unites with other neighborhood children to stop the sinister toy from wreaking bloody havoc. Soon, the block is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders with lots of blood and gore begin to expose the city's hypocrisies and secrets. Along the way, the arrival of other characters threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll's untold origins that somehow became this notorious monster. More than a toy... he's your best friend !. A Boy's Best Friend !. Friends to the End !. Prepare to Meet Your New Best Friend !. Playtime is Over !. An evil too great to play on just one network !. A new original series featuring an old friend...A classic coming of rage story. Fear the second coming !. The killer doll is back !. This year, get a load of Chucky !. Get a load of Chucky. The second coming. The country is chucked. This doll is killer. Chucky is one mean S. O. B. Time to Raise Some Hell !Deliver us some evil !.

Gory and bloody film about the creepy, ruthless, sly series killer named ¨Chucky¨, the creepy events start when a mother gives her 13-year-old son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. The original creators of Chucky ó Buddi and every sequel before this decided to do a separate television series to continue the storyline there; being written by Tyler Burton Smith displaying a twisted and surprising script; based on "Child's Play" whose screenplay was written by Don Mancini , John Lafia, Tom Holland. Here the evil, devilish-doll Chucky is brought-to-life by means of excellent special effects, in this exciting terror movie packing suspenseful horror, thrills, chills , graphic violence, hemoglobin scenes, grisly killings and some satirical/comical elements. It manages to be a budget enough film that makes for big scary scream-feast, guts, and frights , including creepy scenes , eerie make-up and lots of special effects for the sinister demonic being. And the ending will stick with you and will have you on the edge of your seat, it's a real shocker. The plot is is simple and it will continue similar on all versions or follow-ups, here the malicious Chucky moves a flat carrying out the ordinary massacre and criminal spree. However, this is an acceptable pic that relies heavily on the impressive special effects from the fantastic doll. As the real star is the boastful doll that's magnificently made. Adding a frightening and suspenseful musical score by composers Bear McCready and Jason La Rocca, as well as adequate cinematography by cameraman Brendan Uegama. Well produced by Jason Cloth, Ferguson, Aaron Gilbert, David Katzenberg and Michael Williams. The motion picture was professionally directed by Lars Klevberg (Polaroid), though without originality because being a simple copy of previous entries. Rating: 5.5/10.

The initial film from the overlong saga¨Chucky¨ results to be ¨Child's play¨ (1988) by Tom Holland with Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon. To be continued by ¨Child's play II¨ (1990 ) by John Lafia with Jenny Agutter , Alex Vincent , Gerrit Graham . ¨Child's play 3¨ by Jack Bender with Justin Whalin , Peter Haskell , Dakin Matthews . ¨Bride of Chucky¨ (1998) by Ronny Yu with Jennifer Tilly , Brad Dourif , Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, Alexis Arquette . ¨Seed of Chucky¨(2004) by Don Mancini with Brad Dourif , Billy Boyd , Tony Gardner , Jason Flemyng , Hannah Spearritt , John Waters , Redman , Keith-Lee Castle . And ¨Curse of Chucky¨ (2013) by Don Mancini with Chantal Quesnelle , Fiona Dourif , Jordan Gavaris, Danielle Bisutti, A Martinez and ¨Cult of Chucky¨ (2017) by Mancini with Allison Dawn Doiron , Alex Vincent , Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif went straight-to-video , until the release of the remake ¨Child's Play¨ (2019) by Lars Klevberg with Tim Matheson, Ben Daon, Zahra Anderson, Aubrey Plaza . In addition , "Chucky¨, is formed by 21 episodes in three seasons by Don Mancini stars Zackary Arthur, Bjorgvin Arnarson , Alyvia Alyn Lind, Devon Sawa , Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly, Ted Briones, Barbara Alyn Woods, Fiona Dourif, Carina Battrick, Lexa Doig, Rachelle Casseus, Lachlan Watson, among others .

This could have been a LOT worse, but this one actually works! Sure, they made changes, took out the spiritual element, but I thought the makers did very well. And Mark Hamill, DUDE, he makes a convincing creepy voice actor! Genuinely entertaining and unexpectedly better than the average remake =)

Made an account just to write this review. Was going to walk out half way thorough but didn't as we were hoping it would get better - it didn't. The movie was terrible. Predictable story, horrible attempts to be funny which just fell flat, some awkward acting, absolutely cringe inducing scary moments, a plain weird looking doll with 0 scary aspects. We had to check here to make sure we weren't actually watching a horror comedy - would have been better suited to this genre considering it wasn't scary in any way. Don't waste your money.

CHILD'S PLAY purists -- and fans of good movies -- will find it hard it though to sit through this one. Precious little of CHILD'S PLAY's famed mythology appears in this film, instead opting to do exactly what most remakes do wrong -- "updating" the film to the techno age. Of course, the filmmakers fail to realize that none of those elements made the original film so appealing in the film place.

Here, we have none of the suspense or terror that made the 1988 film so dazzling. The film contains limp plotting, a lame backstory, distressingly undeveloped characters, terrible dialogue, and none of heart of the original movie, especially the mother/son relationship that carried the 1988 film (here, the mother is patently too young to pass as Andy's mom).

Chucky looks silly and unmenacing -- a real comedown from the sinister original. Mark Hamill has a good voice for the Joker, but here, he's definitely no Brad Dourif. Not that it would matter much, as Chucky's characterization is boring and completely stripped of any personality in this film.

I'd give it zero stars if I could.

When I went into this movie I was a little hesitant if I was going to enjoy it or not, but I was pleasantly surprised!

They have managed to successfully update the storyline for modern audiences and incorporated today's technology. The kills were much more inventive and they elevated the gore factor.

The character development was strong, with a few emotional scenes. Chucky came across as more of a human character rather than a robot doll. There were so many Easter eggs and nods to the original movie. It would of been a 10 star rating if Chucky said my favourite lines 'wanna play'

It's only of the best films I've seen in 2019.

I'll give you reasons why it's good. The lighting, the cinematography, the special effects, the acting, the dialouge, and most of all, the story itself along with the characters. It's very well done and visually appealing, the acting is very believable, the things the kids do are realistic to what children would actually do in that situation. The doll, Chucky, itself! Throughout the second half of the film you actually feel bad for the villain, the one killing the people! It's not very often that a film is able to make you feel bad for the killer in a movie, especially in a slasher. The story I found very intriguing and definitely brought the chucky character to modern day perfectly. And what I believe to be the best part of the movie, the masterpiece of a soundtrack by Bear Mcreary. He has proven himself time and time again that he is one of the most creative, original, and prolific composers of his time. Every peice of music from the score is terrifying and strikes chills down your spine with its amazing feeling it gives off, a distinct melody that suits the movie perfectly

Wasted enough time on the movie. Not wasting any more than necessary to write this.

Save your money.

The film is globally far-fetched with manifold WTF-typed scenes. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is sometimes creepy. So, forget the script (bury it without any remorse) and enjoy the deaths as wacky as bloody!

For the record, I did not recognize the voice of Luke Skywalker, a.k.a. Mark Hamill, who interprets the enigmatic voice of Chucky.