"Demonic Doll"

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What You Need To Know:
CHILD’S PLAY is the most recent of the “Chucky” remakes. It contains more of what some of the others were lacking – comedy. The movie seems to almost make fun of itself, turning a horror movie into a gory comedy. CHILD’S PLAY has a light Christian, moral worldview where good prevails and there are elements of sacrifice. However, it contains extremely bloody and gory violence and lots of foul language, often uttered by the movie’s child characters. So, media-wise moviegoers will skip the new CHILD’S PLAY.
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CHILD’S PLAY is the newest take on the previous “Chucky” tales, this time around changing the narrative quite a bit. “Buddi” is an artificial intelligence doll that users can program to also control their TVs, air conditioning and anything else connected to “The Cloud.” It also talks to its owner, wanting nothing more than to be the best Buddi and to have fun together. However, one night at the Buddi factory, one of the doll programmers is busy day dreaming when his manager yells at him to focus. He tells him to finish that last doll, and then he is fired. Upset by this cranky supervisor, the programmer decides to make some unusual changes to this Buddi. He removes all the filters and restrictions to the doll that keep Buddi obedient.
This unhinged Buddi is now on the market place, but is quickly returned after the first owner believe that it’s acting strange. Karen, who works with exchanges and returns at a local retail store, decides to bring the throwaway toy back home to her young son, Andy. They’ve just moved to this new town, and Andy, who has a hearing problem, is having a hard time adjusting and making friends.
At first, Andy’s disappointed with this gift from his mom, but quickly becomes attached to it, playing day and night and talking to it about everything. After he tries to name it Han Solo, the doll claims that its name is Chucky. Chucky loves Andy and wants nothing more than to be his best friend.
One night while playing a board game, Andy’s cat scratches him, causing him to bleed. He gets upset at the cat just wishing that he could be rid of it, and when he returns from getting a bandage, he finds Chucky violently choking the cat. Andy stops him, but Chucky doesn’t see that what he did was wrong, as he was only trying to be a good friend.
More and more strange things begin to happen with Chucky. One day Andy wakes up to find the head of his mother’s boyfriend sitting on his nightstand. Did Andy like this boyfriend? No, but he certainly didn’t want him to be violently butchered and placed by his bed. Andy quickly solicits the help of two children he’s befriended in the building. They decide to wrap the head up in wrapping paper and head toward the trash chute. Before they can make it there, however, Andy’s mother finds them with the large present and naturally asks about it. After telling her that it’s a gift for the elderly woman down the hall, Karen insists they go deliver the gift at that moment. Horrified, Andy tells the woman that she can’t open it until his birthday, which is a week away.
Now, Andy has to devise a plan to sneak into the woman’s apartment and retrieve the head back, while also keeping Chucky from doing any harm to anyone else in his life. Soon, this saga spirals way out of control for Andy, who’s only a young boy and must recruit the help of others when they are all quickly under attack.
CHILD’S PLAY is one of many horror films based around the doll who has come to life with a rather sinister nature. This time around, it takes a more realistic approach rather than delving into the supernatural. It also seems to almost make fun of itself, or the franchise in general, taking elements from the previous movies and satirizing them. The movie’s dominant comical approach to the way in which an artificial intelligence learns and adapts to the world around them is an interesting and fresh new take. Although using Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky caused the original writer, Don Mancini, to detach his name from the project, CHILD’S PLAY is surprisingly well done, and entertaining from beginning to end.
However, this new reboot of the Chucky franchise is extremely gory and bloody. It also has almost 80 obscenities and profanities, most of which come out of the mouths of children. In addition, the family portrayed in CHILD’S PLAY is very dysfunctional. The movie depicts a relationship between a mother and son that’s not completely based on trust and love. That said, the new CHILD’S PLAY does follow a Christian, moral worldview where evil is defeated by good and where, on more than one occasion, someone sacrifices themselves for another. Media-wise moviegoers likely will skip the new CHILD’S PLAY, because of its objectionable content.