#BUDDI MOVIE FULL#
Removing the supernatural possession that powered the original doll in ’88 is all well and good and having an AI killer doll is certainly a strong premise, but Klevberg and Smith fail to realise the idea to its full potential. The chief issue with the “Child’s Play” reimagining is Chucky himself and his origins. It’s Buddi’s never-breaking bond woven into the horror background that sets this film apart from its predecessors in Don Mancini’s canon, and it’s a successful injection of originality I found appealing. Smith’s fresh direction to Andy and Buddi’s friendship is heart-wrenching at times, especially during the scene where Buddi is faced with abandonment issues followed by violence at the hands of Gabe. It’s Smith’s writing approach to Buddi’s programming that provides us with the gleaming and emotional wrecking ball that was completely overlooked in the original. Granted, he’s supposed to be creepy at the beginning, but then, as he yearns for Andy’s sole attention, and is now privy to violence thanks to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2”, he just gets creepier than ever. Buddi becomes increasingly obsessed with Andy and his new friendships. And in turn such programming provides the obvious weirdness that mostly goes unacknowledged, but no sooner does Andy become pals with the local one-dimensional stock characters by virtue of his AI toy than Buddi becomes a creaky museum relic and high jinks ensue.
#BUDDI MOVIE MOVIE#
The bond is a slow build for the relatively fast-paced movie and the friendless, hard-of-hearing teen begins to rely more and more on his glitching doll, who is programmed to love his owner no matter what. The strongest element of “Childs Play 2.0” isn’t the fragmented homicidal ginger-haired rubber rascal’s murderous rampage, his confused origins or the forced satire of the digital era and millennial consumerism it is the grounded relationship between Andy and Buddi. His attempts at mending Buddi’s glitches only lead to more catastrophic consequences and he’s quickly dispatched in the most gruesome manner. The closest we come to a traditional Don Mancini character is Gabe, played by Trent Redekop, who soups up the abandoned doll to sell on eBay. Sure, he treads a nicely wonky line between a goofy sleaze and evil stepfather, but we have come to expect more from a “Child’s Play” movie that has given us such douchebag characters as Miss Kettlewell (“Child’s Play 2”), Shelton (“Child’s Play 3”) and Chief Warren Kincaid (“Bride of Chucky”). His one-dimensional character as Karen’s boyfriend consists of intimating he and Plaza have just done the dirty or of grabbing another beer from the fridge, followed by a Paul Serone (Jon Voight, “Anaconda”) stare.
Plaza is paired with David Lewis, who plays Shane, a douchebag who’s not a big fan of Andy. However, when Plaza is on screen her deadpan delivery is as always enjoyable to watch. Andy’s mother, Karen, played by Aubrey Plaza, has little to do she’s a working girl whose gotta pay the rent and is there simply to inch the story along. When the film eventually gets back on the track of updating the source material we come full circle the third act is like any other unabashed horror reboot but manages to meld its below-average stock characters and excessive gore surprisingly well.ĭirected by Lars Klevberg and written by Tyler Burton Smith, the “Child’s Play” remake plot needs no explaining, but this time around the film’s concept leans more towards the “Stranger Things” trend, saddling our young hero, Andy (Gabriel Michael Bateman), with a bunch of characters to buddy up with when body parts hit the Kaslan Corporation fan. Holds your intrigue with echoes of “Black Mirror” stamped all over it.
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