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BRIDE OF CHUCKY
You know what?
I thought it was supposed to be easy to pick out the
10 megaton bombs of cinematic excrement 2000
miles away.
I thought there was no way in hell that BRIDE OF
CHUCKY could be anything more than a little piece
of interesting filmic couch lent.
Well so much for me thinking.
This movie is fun. You may hear from 200 critics
that it is dung. They are all wrong. BRIDE OF
CHUCKY is why series should go on. Every once in
a while, someone comes along and says.... “Hey, you
know what would be a lot of fun!?” and BAM you get
a movie like this.
Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a four star film in
that Merchant Ivory sort of way, but I guarantee you
I’ll watch this film 50% more than I will SCREAM.
Why? Because they don’t kill Rose McGowan. Of
course Rose McGowan isn’t in the film.
Why will I watch this more than SCREAM. Cause I
think this is just a ton of damn fun. I went and saw it
with Father Geek, Tom Joad and Quint (who was
seeing it for his third time in as many days).
Went and saw it at the Highland 10. Didn’t really see
any trailers that stuck in my head. Instead I’ll just get
straight into the flick. (wow Harry, that’s awfully
kind of ya) Think nothing of it kid.
I’m kinda rendered a bit mute on this one. I just want
to type GO SEE IT GO SEE IT GO SEE IT over and
over and over and over and over and over and over
and over again again again again.
But I ain’t gonna go and do that. Wait... I did.
Dammit brain I told you not to do that.
Anyway I guess a ton of credit goes to the technical
people and the folks that wrote and directed.
I’ll start with what came first... The script.
Don Mancini wrote this Chucky film. But ya know
what, he wrote all the others too. What the hell man.
Ya know this is almost the sort of thing that causes
psychotic breakdowns. He really nailed this movie.
The perfect amount homage, the perfect amount of
popcorniness, the perfect amount of parmesian
cheese, the perfect grandeur of death scenes and really snappy dialogue. In short
I was geeking consistently through the film.
Now you have to be a horror film fan. If you often
times have a furled brow and a rolling of eyes
problem. Stay away. This is a movie for people that
buy FANGORIA. For the people that love FREDDIE
KRUEGER, MICHAEL MYERS, JASON
VORHEES, LEATHERFACE, The TALL MAN,
PIN HEAD and yes even CHUCKY.
And it pays tribute to all of em. It celebrates in it’s
own perversity. When Jennifer Tilly and Chucky do
the thing you did with your sisters Barbie and Ken
dolls, what you did with your Luke and Leia 12 inch
dolls, that you were then horrified by RETURN OF
THE JEDI for doing. I mean, that was just wrong.
I’m sorry. All of a sudden thousands of perverted
elementary and junior high and high school kids felt
pangs of guilt for that plastic forced incest thing.
There should have been some hints. I mean...
sheesh... Luke wanted Leia for two films. And not in
that sisterly way. The dude never USED THE
FORCE dagdammit.
Whoa, I got distracted. But anyway back to BRIDE
OF CHUCKY. This is the sort of movie for which
the world created Jennifer Tilly. Silly temptress stuff.
When she’s making goo goo eyes at Chucky... well
you just get the idea that she would tire of the
standard goth-dudes and would seek a little vinyl
loving.
The real moments of the movie for me are the scenes
where Chucky looks at the Tiffany doll and does
something. Like when he does the ‘air masturbation’
move to lampoon the ‘oh so goody two shoes’ kids in
the front seats.
The plot line is simplicity in motion. Dolls need to
get to cemetary, dolls trick kids into it. Dolls kill tons
of people.
BUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTT....
It gets way frigging cool.
When the kids get confused about what happened...
well it is great. I love the dolls trying to one ups each
other in the glorius method of killing. Oh sure the
Christian Science Monitor probably starts twitching
like a nun finding Playboys in the confession booth.
Dang it, I forgot I was gonna run down the talent
listings.
RONNY YU. Now for 99.9% of the public, he don’t
mean a damn thing. But for those of us that saw THE
BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR... well we saw Ronny
Yu at his super-coolest best. And then our hearts
were broken by that damn kangaroo flick that had
action figures sitting on shelves forever. But here, his
stylish and lovely story treatment works perfectly. He
doesn’t lose fact that he has 4 main characters, and
two of them are just plan plastic as can be. But he
managed to get performances out of them suckers.
And the two kids didn’t suck. That’s really an
accomplishment, because my problem with all the
extra people in the prior Chucky films... well I just
wanted Chucky to win. Here... I still wanted Chucky
to win... no... I wanted Tiffany to win. Noooo... I
wanted them to wander off in the graveyard mist
happily ever after and the moon set in the distance.
Yeah.... yeah...
PETER PAU.... His cinematography is legendary in
Hong Kong cinema. THE KILLER, BRIDE WITH
WHITE HAIR, and well this film looks as good as
those. Amazing how nice his shooting looks when he
isn’t filming plastic dummies like VAN DAMME. I
can’t wait to see more of his work.
KEVIN YAGHER. Ya know... Frank Oz has Yoda
and Miss Piggy. Kevin has Chucky. Chucky just
kicks ass in this film. That little fart is just so damn
cool. His facial expressions during his dialogue...
which is very snappy. and the reactions from
TIFFANY... wow... fun fun fun fun fun...
I want to see more CHUCKY and TIFFANY movies.
I want them to do a series of ROAD TO flicks. They
are a classic comedy team. Of course it’s just for a
segment of society that many feel should be wiped off
the face of the planet, but just let em try. We’ve been
watching movies like this while you’ve been watching
REMAINS OF THE DAY. You think you can take
us?!?!?!?!
Do you know how to kill two assholes in a bridal
suite with one throw of a champagne bottle?
Do you know how to use your air conditioner, a fan
blower, a buncha nails and a doll to kill a Sheriff?
I do. and dammit these survival films will keep me
alive whenever I’m stuck in a horror film. I won’t
make a mistake. I’ll see the tell tale signs.
And if ya knew what was good for ya, you would too.
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For everyone who thinks Harry is being paid off for his reviews... looks like you've finally got your proof.
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Here we go again with the Harry being paid for his review bs. Give it a rest already. I saw Bride of Chucky a couple of nights ago and I agree with Harry 100%. It was a fun film. It's not going to win any awards (maybe MTV awards), but it was one Hell of a fun film. I mean what are you expecting from a movie named Bride of Chucky? Besides they posted some reviews over at Dark Horizons and they were all pretty much positive. So if you're into fun B horror films go see this. If you're not go see Beloved or something.
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This was SOOOO a good movie. Absolutely unhinged, insane humor. Insane insane insane, builds and builds until a psycho doll is baking chocolate chip cookies as you watch in hysterical disbelief. So campy I'll have to take Vitamin E supplements for weeks.
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I have got to say that Bride Of Chucky is the best Child's Play movie out of them all. It is a movie that has just the right amount of horror&comedy. It will keep you scared and laughting all the way throught the movie.
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Face it, Tim: There IS a segment of the population who loves films like this. And they're a lot more fun to hang around with than the people who think films like this signal the coming of the apocalypse.
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Not like, "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR!" type reviews. But still... LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle all gave it positive reviews. I know, I know it got bad reviews in Entertainment Weekly, NY Times and such. But did anyone expect a movie named Bride of Chucky, a movie not screened for critics, to get ANY postitve reviews?
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BRIDE OF CHUCKY was a dreadful waste of film. I'm starting to lose faith in your taste in films man. How the fuck can you compare BOC with SCREAM? Despite the fact that the ultra talented and appealingly voloptuous Jennifer Tilly was in it, the film was a shameful, hideous, and mundane film experience. The film was basically a low brow comedy where people incidentally happen to get slaughtered. The acting, direction, and editing were all piss poor. This has got to be one of the most god awful screenplays I've ever seen. The fact that this piece of shit film didn't go straight to video where it can rot with the rest of the films that Harry probably likes is confounding. Somebody should've told the producers that in order to make a horror film plausibly attention getting, it should actually make some kind of attempt to set up tense scenarios. No such friggin luck. I'm assuming that Harry must be best friends with one of the films producers and is doing him a favor by trying to generate whatever positive word of mouth he can with this typical Follywood botch job.
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This is definetly a film you have to be on the right wave-length for. If you are it's great fun, if not you'll probably feel like Tim and Strangelove and start looking for conspiracy theories. Reaction to this film strikes me as similar to The Avengers, again with the wave-length thing. Me, I prefered The Avengers, it had some class about it, something you could never accuse Bride of Chucky of having. :)
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Thank God Ronnie boy's finally found something good to do (even if it is the third sequel of a horror film). I was hoping and praying he wouldn't do a Ringo Lam on us. Or, God forbid, pull a Hark Tsui and get stuck doing movies with that Van Goddammed fellow.
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Bride of Chucky is one of the best movies ever made! I like this one the best because it shows a lot more of Chucky than the other films. One of the best things about this movie is Chucky's new look! Tiffany is the perfect play mate for Chucky. I sure hope They make a Child's Play 5. Expect the next movie to be called "Son of Chucky".
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That simple. It's not a horror film, it's a suspense/thriller. And it sucks......
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