#Making my buddi movie
#Making my buddi serial

#Making my buddi movie

It’s not his fault! He’s just a baby! Just teach him better!īut this wouldn’t be a slasher movie (or at least, not the kind of revamped, B-horror director Lars Klevberg is trying to make) if Chucky remained sympathetic.

It’s genuinely a little upsetting when Chucky, not understanding why his attempts at making Andy happy are out of bounds, pleads not to be locked away in the closet.

Hamill, who takes over for series regular Brad Dourif, opts for a plaintive voice that almost makes Chucky cute - or at least makes him an object of pity rather than fear. Swearing and stabbing are thus back in the doll’s playbook. The man making him in a Vietnamese sweatshop (subversion or racism, you decide) is unceremoniously laid off, and turns off Chucky’s language and violence filters in a final act of defiance before committing suicide. When a cat scratches Andy, it goes right on Chucky’s shit list, and unfortunately, Chucky’s safety filters are nonexistent. If you’ve ever seen a movie where a robot with the capacity to learn is slowly corrupted by the people around it, you’ll know where Child’s Play is going. ”)Ĭhucky and Andy (Gabriel Bateman) play a board game. (“Are you sure his eyes are supposed to look like they’re different sizes? OK, I guess.

The doll’s face doesn’t become more or less demonic based on his state of mind - he’s just as unsettling and warped from scene to scene, like a version of Chucky (rendered through animatronic dolls and the help of some CGI) had been put through a game of telephone.

#Making my buddi serial

Instead of being a serial killer’s soul trapped in the body of a doll, the new Chucky (voiced by Hamill) is simply a robot “Buddi” doll who misunderstands what will make his new friend Andy (Gabriel Bateman) happy. I’m also a sucker for movies about robots with feelings, which is essentially what this Child’s Play - which sure is gory, if not as funny as it wants to be - is for its entire first half. I’ve never seen any of Don Mancini’s Child’s Play movies (I’m sorry!), though I’m aware that he’s still working on the series, and that his lack of involvement with this remake has cast a pall over it. I’m sure some of my goodwill towards the new Child’s Play comes from the fact that I have no attachment to the original franchise. “You are my buddy until the end,” Mark Hamill warbles - which, obviously, I love - before weirdly syncopated drums kick in, and the increasing number of heavy-handed musical accoutrements take me from happily complacent to wondering if I might have made a huge mistake. How I feel about Child’s Play, the remake/reboot of the 1988 slasher of the same name, roughly correlates to how I feel about “ The Buddi Song,” the cutesy anthem of the new film.