Movie Review- Seed of Chucky

The "Child's Play" series has been a lengthy and strange one. I really enjoyed the first three movies, which were a nice blend of creepy camp and unintentional laughs. The fourth movie (Bride of Chucky), however, tried to parody itself while retaining the elements of a slasher movie. The end result was a really bland and generally unfunny horror-comedy/road-trip movie.  Seed of Chucky is a big improvement over Bride, in that it ditches any attempt to be scary, and goes straight for the laughs. And while the humor doesn't always work, it maintains its tone and overall plot direction.
The pacing is really interesting in this flick, seeing as the writers weren't going for a slasher movie. The body count is fairly low because of this, and the deaths are inventive without being ridiculous. The setting is mostly contained to Jennifer Tilly's house, and the limited location works really well. Speaking of which, Jennifer Tilly was quite enjoyable here. She came across as really annoying in the previous film, but she does a lot better of a job in this movie. A fun little plot twist is that Jennifer Tilly stars as herself in the movie, as well as the killer doll Tiffany. There's a lot of self-deprecating humor between the two of them, and it works surprisingly well.

Whereas the previous film had the killer-doll duo as supporting characters rather than just the villains, they're the main characters here. Another highlight of the movie is Chucky's androgynous child Glen/Glenda, who is also one of the main characters. Glen/Glenda isn't a murder-enthusiast like his parents, and there's good deal of humor as result. ("But violence is bad. It said so on TV" "Not violence... vio-lins! Violins are bad.") Not all of the humor works, though. There's a good deal of lowbrow crude humor that doesn't really flow with the rest of the movie and just isn't funny.  But the number of jokes that work outshines the ones that don't, so it's easy to look past the unfunny and crude stuff.

The only other major problem I had with the movie is that Chucky's child, while somewhat funny, seemed like a bit of a third wheel to me, and was the butt of a lot of the gross-out humor. There's a recurring gag that Glen/Glenda pees himself whenever it's scared. While I found it unfunny and a bit strange that the writers felt it necessary to include that, I was able to look past it in favor of the better parts of the movie. I could nitpick about the factual errors, plot holes, and the nonsensical ending,  but this is one of those movies where you have to look past those things to enjoy it.

Overall, a very stupid but fun movie. If you're a fan of the series and haven't seen this one yet, it's definitely worth the watch. It's nothing profound, but it's certainly enjoyable.

Quality: 2/5

Enjoyment: 4/5

IMDB Page- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387575/