Movieposting: Bride of Chucky

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 This was supposed to be a double feature with last week's movie but my library had some trouble finding their copy so I could check it out. Ah well. 2 weeks for 2 movies.

 

So, I don't think a second Chucky movie is necessarily sticking to my core mission of helping me connect with pop culture. I already got the idea with the last one I saw. It's not all negative though. Apparently this was my wife's childhood favorite movie. This one in particular. This much goofier, and bizarrely hornier installment in the series. So, I'm connecting with something that was at some point important to my wife and getting some insight into how her weird little neurons all wired into each other.

 

It's not exactly a movie I would show to a kid. At the same time, I get how a kid who can get their hands on R rated movies would like it. It's FUN. Hits the same part of my brain that remembers enjoying Sci Fi Channel movies back in the day. It's a good example of turn-your-brain-off campy horror-comedy. The really skilled expressive puppeteering I appreciated in the other one is back with TWO dolls and there's over-the-top cartoonish gore, hell yes. I miss practical effects being more predominant than CGI!!!!!

 

The story is... meh. I see why this is not considered a particularly good movie. There are probably things I could pick apart if I felt like it but I'm watching movies to see how people have connected with popular art. I'm not here to be a film critic. For this one in particular, I wasn't here to see a well-written plot. I was here to enjoy watching some insane bullshit and this movie didn't disappoint on that front.