Horror franchises all have there low points and there low points slasher franchises even more so as there's only so many times that you can tell the same story over and over again before your audience begins to get bored. With the film that i'm about to review for you all today being the low point of the Child's Play franchise as despite just releasing the fan pleasing Bride Of Chucky in 1998 the makers of the Chucky franchise decided to double down on it's more comedic tone and so then join me as I review the film introduces us to Glen and Glenda with the film in question being called simply just "Seed Of Chucky" enjoy.
The plot of this film is six years after the events of the previous Chucky and Tiffany find themselves in Hollywood where with the help of there son / daughter they decide to take over the body of actress Jennifer Tilly so that they can start a new life together. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad as the plot of the film is so far removed from both the first Child's Play and even Bride Of Chucky that it might as well be set in a different universe as while the plot of this film does keep the tone of the previous film it also pushes it to extremes that both the original film and the previous film wouldn't dare to do with the plot of this film also lacking clear focus as well with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Brad Dourif as The Voice Of Chucky and Jennifer Tilly as Herself and The Voice Of Tiffany. Also starring in this film is Billy Boyd as The Voice Of Glen / Glenda , Redman as Himself , Hannah Spearritt as Joan , John Waters as Pete Peters , Keith-Lee Castle as Psychs , Steve Lawton as Stan , Tony Gardner as Himself , Jason Flemyng as Santa , Nicholas Rowe as Lawyer , Stephanie Chambers as Claudia's Mum , Simon James Morgan as Claudia's Dad , Betty Simons-Denville as Claudia , Rebecca Santos as Fulvia , Beans El-Balawi as Human Glen , Kristina Hewitt as Human Glenda , Daniel Getzoff as Assistant Director , Nicola Mycroft as Reporter and Guy J. Louthan as Don Mancini.
Now then interms of what I personally thought felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films cast members turning in some really good performances as while we do get some really good performances from this films cast we do also get some pretty bad performances as well with both Redman and Hannah Spearritt being prime examples of that which is of course not there fault as neither of them are trained actor and as a result of that is the fact that it would been foolish to expect good performances from them but it is the fault of this films first time director Don Mancini who despite writing and from this film onwards directing every single film in the Child's Play franchise really should have got a good performance out of all of his cast with the acting in this film not really being helped by the fact that the script for this film was just so bad as it gives this films cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this film.
This film does have alot of meta humor in it which can at times but at times can also be very distracting as well. With the film having alot of fun of Jennifer Tilly's career which is funny at first but it does get tiresome the more the film goes on and the film is filled to the brim with meta humor like that with the film even commenting on the fact that Tiffany is also played by Jennifer Tilly when it really didn't need as while it's a cute joke that the film doesn't drag on telling it's still a joke that was there just to be a meta joke and while the Scream franchise is also filled to the brim with meta humor as well at least the jokes in that franchise are more about the horror genre as a whole and aren't as distracting alot of the time with the opposite being true for this film and while yes Bride Of Chucky also made meta jokes the meta jokes that they made in that film, were more about the Child's Play franchise as whole and weren't just focused on one person with the meta jokes in this film not even being that smartly written either as all there doing is calling out the fact that an actor in this film is playing two roles and one of them is themself and that's really it.
For some rather odd reason this film chose to make Chucky a family man which while it does work for a character like Tiffany as even in the previous film she was always more motherly in nature and would there for be open to starting a family. It's not something that works with Chucky as that's not in his character as he's a character that would be willing to do whatever it takes to survive in any given situation something which we've seen played out in several different films and heck even the entire premise of the films is built on him trying to survive by any means necessary and as a result of that is the fact that he wouldn't be willing to start of a family or even be that good of a father to his son or daughter as that would get in the way of him trying to survive this is something that should have been thought of when writing for the film and yet it wasn't all for the idea of it being funny seeing Chucky in this father figure role which granted yes is a funny idea but it's also something that doesn't really work with his character in anyway whatsoever.
To give this film some credit the very idea of Chucky and Tiffany being in a Hollywood movie is a good idea. It's just a shame that the film drops that idea just as soon as it starts with it just being an excuse to get both Chucky and Tiffany back to life and that's really it which is a shame as this is a really good idea that could have more then supported an entire film with the best thing being that you really wouldn't have had to have changed all the much about the film in order to make that idea work for the film and yet by dropping this ides it somehow makes the film feel weaker as the films cameos either by actual famous people or by lookalikes really do come out of nowhere whereas if the idea of Chucky and Tiffany working on a movie was kept intact then those cameos could be explained away by saying that there working on the movie or there working on a movie that's filming near there or there auditioning for a movie all of which would make those cameos feel natural and a lot less forced and it would also for the makers of this film to comment on things that were going on in Hollywood at the time that this film was being made something which they now can't do as the idea of Chucky and Tiffany making a movie was dropped.
One of this films most divisive ideas is that of Glen / Glenda with the characters not being as fully developed as they really should have been. With the general idea of the characters being that there's basically split personalities going on in Glen one of which is the more calm and lovable Glen and the other is the more psychotic Glenda and while there could be other ways to view the idea behind the two characters the fact remains that both ideas aren't that well done as neither character is given alot of time to really showcase what there respective personalty is with Glenda not even showing up until the films third act and her not even being hinted at at all during the films running time and as a result of that is the fact that we get a character that is really let down by the films script as the character or characters on there own do have the potential to be some really good characters and yet due to the fact that the films script doesn't give them each the time that they really need to be fully developed as characters the idea behind the character as a whole just falls flat.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour ad twenty six minuets and fifteen seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this franchise to have and to this films credit it really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time but at the same time tho this film feels oddly shorter then what it should have been as alot of this film feels like it's on fast forward alot of the time likes there's a few a scenes missing that would help to make this film flow alot better then what it does which makes you wonder if this film was meant to be alot longer then what it was and if this film was longer as well it would also mean that the film would have the chance to fully develop alot of it's characters as well something which really can't be done with the films current time as the film has to put alot of focus on advancing it's plot and can't really give alot of it's time to developing any of it's characters which is something that really does affect the film in the longer run of things but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a slasher film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as alot of this films kills aren't that good either with alot of the kills in this film oddly feeling really tame for this franchise as while yes we do get some really gory kills in this film those are very few and far between with the film having alot of kills that feel like the kind of kill that you'd expect to see in a slasher film from the early 2000's as alot of this films kills happen either off screen or we don't get to see what actually kills the person in question and yet when we do get to see a really gory kill in this film it's more often the best kill in the film as a whole and it's those gory kills that do also make the film worth watching due how gory they are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film is quite clearly the series low point and it's no wonder that for the next film they went to being a straight up horror film instead of being a horror comedy as while yes this franchise has always had it's goofy moments this film took those goofy moments a bit to far in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good ad as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Child's Play fandom wiki page , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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