This is the British poster. I liked the tagline better than the American one, which is "Chucky gets Lucky".Here we are on installment number four of the Child's Play franchise. It had been seven years after the third film and people were ready for a reboot. No more hunting down the same old kid over and over, it was time to find fresh blood.
Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) bribes a cop to get her the destroyed remains of a Good Guy doll from an evidence locker. She then uses a Voodoo for Dummies book in order to reconstitute the soul of her old boyfriend, Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif). But when she finds out that Chucky never intended to marry her, she locks him in a baby cage. In revenge, Chucky traps her in the body of a doll as well and tells her that they need an amulet that was buried with his human body in order to transfer their souls to human hosts once more. Tiffany calls on her teenaged neighbor Jesse (Nick Stabile) to deliver the two dolls to a New Jersey cemetery for cash. Jesse really needs the money so he can run away with his girlfriend, Jade (Katherine Heigl), so her psychopathic chief of police uncle (John Ritter) will stop using his municipal authority to harass them. The pair soon find that killer dolls is a way worse problem to have than an overbearing family member.
This is like a time machine back to my high school days. The 90's were not a good decade. We went from grunge to goth and it was not an improvement. Because the trends were so identifiable, however, this movie will always be dated. Which is a shame because it's actually not bad. It's funny, gory, and verging into silliness, but retains just enough of an edge to be re-watchable. I was never a huge Jennifer Tilly fan, but her acting runs rings around Katherine Heigl. It's like the only thing she's ever mastered is being shrill on command.
The next one doesn't look as promising, but I'll give it a try.
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