The "Good Guys" are this years attraction, their gag is that they can talk and move their head, so little Andy Barclay wishes for nothing more than to have one for his 6th birthday. But he only gets clothing: his mother can't afford such an expensive doll.
Later on at her son's birthday, when she is at work, Andy's mother gets lucky: a bum offers her a "Good Guy" for half the price. She takes the offer and makes her son a happy child - but guess which particular doll she gave her son!
Things begin funny, but they turn pretty bad when "Chucky" reveals his true face. His intention is to transfer his soul back to a human being, which has to be Andy since he has to choose the first person who he told his real name, otherwise the "spell" won't work. Of course, nobody tends to believe a 6 y/o speaking about a living doll, so he finally ends up in a mental institution. That's all you have to know about the first part, in which Chucky gets dismembered at the end.
"Child's Play" was something new to the genre and it was done very well; that made the film a classic.
Like often with sequels from films that delivered something new, the second part cannot reach its successor in terms of storyline, but it's still a good movie and it doesn't miss out humor this time, so we have to laugh a lot, especially about Chucky's goofy sayings.
The story: Chucky manages to get back to life (is it really necessary to mention that?
) and finds his way to Andy, now 8 years old, who has just been adopted by foster parents. Well, there's nothing much to further tell: Andy gets into trouble with his new parents when he asserts that Chucky is after him again, some people get killed, including the foster parents sometime, and there is a cool showdown in a "Good Guys" factory at the end.Overall impression: a really entertaining movie, which I can watch over and over again (not once a month, of course
). The quality of the series decreased with every sequel: Part 1 being the best, Part 2 still being a very good horror flick, Part 3 remaining very entertaining, but slightly inferior to Part 2, and Part 4 being, well, somehow too kitschy. It has some good elements, but it gives us the impression that the screenwriter tried hard to get something out of the story once more, but didn't succeed. In my opinion, the series should have ended with Part 3.
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