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Seed Of Chucky
A greater case for the pill has never been made.

Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Redman, Hannah Spearritt, Bill Boyd, Brad Dourif
Director: Don Mancini
Screenwriters: Don Mancini

Reviewed by Larry Stanley

This piece of crap cost over $25,000,000 and this was the best they could come up with? Jokes about dolls that are not anatomically correct, dolls that pee on themselves, dolls that

Hereeeeeeeeee's Chucky!

masturbate, dolls that are in 12 Step Programs for serial killers, dolls that like Jennifer Tilly's boobs. Well, ok I can understand that last one.

Parents, come on. Why are you wasting time taking your kids as young as 10 to see this garbage? Just give them a bottle of vodka, and a copy of Hustler and then start practicing to tell Jerry Springer, "I don't know what happened to little Cletus. We tried to be good parents."

And yes, there were kids that young being brought to see Seed of Chucky by their parents.

Among the more interesting parts of the film, including the number of children watching, was the appearance of John Waters as a sleazy photographer, the "death" of a young blond named "Brittany" and Hannah Spearritt. Beyond this, please don't blame the cameraperson.

The plot is simple. There are these two doll that are possessed by the spirit of a human serial killing couple, Chucky and Tiffany. These two dolls are currently lifeless, being used to film a movie about the urban legend "Chucky" about a demonic doll that kills people.

After being brought to life again by their sexually confused child with no sex organs, the two start to kill once more, only to swear off murder in the interests of their new child. Now, insert visions of murder victims, slashings, multiple references to old movies and piles of steaming intestines and you just about have the film.

Tilly, meanwhile is trying to revive her career by gaining a part in the new biblical epic "Mary" about the Virgin Mary, being directed by that multi-talent... BWAHAHAHAHA... sorry, I almost made it... by the rap artist turned Director, Redman. Yes, Redman.

Tilly supplies both her own talents to the film as well as providing the voice of Tiffany, leading to numerous jokes about how she really doesn't sound that way, and how she could have been a bigger star but she really was not as big a slut as she acted. But, references to her sexual encounter in Bound also.. uh.. abound.

The best parts of the film were Jennifer Tilly. The only fun parts of the film were trying to follow the various movie references.

You could make that a new drinking game; every time a movie reference is made, have a shot of bourbon. I think that is what the director did.

This movie is not stupid. To say Seed of Chucky is stupid is to say it is better then it actually is. It is a piece of garbage masking itself as entertainment. It offers nothing of fun or real movie value. If you honestly expected something remotely involving quality in this thing, you believe that Simpson girl really had a sore throat.

But, if you thought Team America was high quality entertainment, you will probably think the child of Chucky, Glen/Glenda, with his hideous British accent, Japanese language and Zen moments, combined with some really lousy Kung Fu effects will be high brow.

Yes, Glen/Glenda.

Like I said, the doll has sexual identity issues. And if the gay viewers don't get all p.o.'ed at the limp wristed hand gestures or the lisp, then I think an apology is in order for every comment made about Connie and Carla.

No, Chucky films have never been 'scary'; but they did offer (at least in the first one) some suspense. The only suspense here is, "Did I remember to turn off the stove when I left the house?"

Larry Stanley is the editor and publisher of Penguin Comics and Movies, located at http://www.penguincomics.net and has done over 500 movie reviews in his career. He is also a contributing reviewer to Cultcuts magazine (http://www.cultcuts.net) and Columbia360 (http://www.columbia360.com/) as well the magazine Devine Exploitation.

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