![]() It seems like she’s barely interested in what she’s given in the role, and is almost as aware as the rest of the audience that had she been cast as the sister, it would’ve if anything given the audience less to question the logic of. Aubrey Plaza is a terrific actress, but completely miscast as the mother of the main character. It bounces from a ‘Black Mirror’ episode, over to a ‘Stranger Things’ tone once a group of kids is introduced bringing the whole film down to a low-grade Disney channel original film whenever they’re on screen. I just wish they had kept the original origin of the character if they wanted to consider this a ‘Childs Play’ film, otherwise call it something else. Mark Hamill tries to give the character a different spin and for what the film presented I think he did the absolute best he could. Why I HATE this switch up is not only does it take away the fun, supernatural aspects of ‘Chucky’ but you lose a lot of the performance of the doll by not giving it a voice really until it learns from the kids in the film. ![]() The Buddy doll decides to call himself ‘Chucky’, but there is no explanation given as to why. Instead, a disgruntled Vietnamese warehouse worker where the ‘Buddy AI’ doll being assembled decides to change the internal morality settings on one of the dolls, giving it 100% evil, violence, etc. With this new version of the character, there is no serial killer, no voodoo magic trapping a soul to the doll. ![]() What I love about this concept is that there is a fully fleshed out character with motivations and their own personality. In the original ‘Childs Play’, ‘Chucky’ is the soul of a notorious serial killer trapped inside the body of a doll. Having now watched both the original and the 2019 remake, I hesitate to even consider this as a ‘Childs Play’ film, but a completely new character that happens to be called ‘Chucky’. I expected to walk in and get a foul mouth murderous doll, with great one-liners and maybe a few tributes which I won’t understand. Going into this new iteration of the classic horror franchise, I had never seen any of the previous installments. But what she doesn’t know is that THIS particular doll has been purposefully tampered with, and may adopt certain murderous tendencies. The mom (played by Aubrey Plaza), who after seeing her son not making any friends decides a doll with a face like a hobbit who joined Charles Manson’s cult would be a good bonding toy. ‘Childs Play’ is a Re-imagining of the original ‘Childs Play’ that centers around a Mother and son, who gets a refurbished AI Robot Doll ‘Buddy’ (voiced by the always perfect Mark Hamill).
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