Child's Play 2 Film Review

 

Horror fans there are quite a few horror icons out their however only one of them has every single film and in this case TV appearance written by their original creator. Since i've already checked out the original film and a few of the much more later sequels I thought that now was the absolutely right time to check out the very first sequel and so then join me as I review the film that proves that you can't keep a good guy down and out with the freaking film in question being called simply just "Child's Play 2" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a now eight year old Andy Barclay is placed with possible foster parents and has to deal with Chucky who wants his revenge. 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 not that bad with this films plot doing a good of advancing the overall story of the films thud far in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay , Brad Dourif as The Voice Of Chucky and Christine Elise as Kyle. Also starring in this film is Jenny Agutter as Joanne Simpson , Gerrit Graham as Phil Simpson , Grace Zabriskie as Grace Poole , Peter Haskell as Haskell Sullivan , Beth Grant as Elizabeth Kettlewell , Greg Germann as Mattson and Edan Gross as The Voice Of The Tommy Doll.

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 really good. With all of this film cast turning in some really good performances and it goes without saying that Brad Dourif is of course fantastic in the role of Chucky and is quite easily the best actor in the entire film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

This film does a good job of advancing it's two returning characters in a way that felt naturel and organic. However for budgetary reasons Andy's mother and Mike Norris were both cut from the film which given how important both characters were to the first film it's a shame that we didn't get at least one scene with one or either both of them but the reason that we get for Andy's mother not being in the film does somewhat make sense tho in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

I did find the character of Kyle to be a rather enjoyable character since she came across as being a normal teenage girl who had been messed around by the system that's designed to protect her. This is something that makes her a rather interesting character because all of her hatred for Andy does come from a place of love and seeing them grow closer does make for a rather interesting character arc in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

The same thing cannot be said for the duo's foster parents who just come across as being rather bad parents. Since they knowingly have a Good Guy doll in Andy's room this is despite knowing that Andy was tortured by a Good Guy doll and the fact that both parents knowing that both kids were in bed still question both of them for destroying an ornament heck even the mother had just finished reading Andy a bed story and was actually on his bed with him when the ornament broke this just goes to show just how bad these characters are as actual characters and quite possibly as parents as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

I have to admit I hated the fact that literally all of the grown up characters chose not to believe Andy's story. Since there's so much in this film that backs up what Andy's saying like for example how would he have tied himself up and gagged himself this is something that Kyle does ask in the film and it makes the grown up's seem even more oblivious because you have a kid who has already been through hell telling you exactly what's going on and as such the grown ups in this film should have believed Andy so much more sooner then what they already do in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then this film has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and fifty seconds. Which I have to admit is the perfect running time for his film to have since it really doesn't have alot there interms of either plot or story and so then this film really doesn't need that long of running time because the story doesn't demand a longer running time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

So now then since is a slasher 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. With this film having alot of creative kills which does make alot of this films more tamer kills all the more disappointing in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall I can see why die hard Chucky fans consider this film to be the best of the sequels since it is a very good film however this film does have it's own fair share of problems in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've since i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in his very review and as such that means that this very film erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 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 and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because of the fact Google Images actually has alot of images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always freaking do with our one and true freaking goddess Elvira wishing us all some very freaking unpleasant dreams indeed.

My Attempt At Working Out A Timeline For The Original Child's Play Films

There are alot of horror icons out there from Freddy to Micheal to Jason , Leatherface and Ash there's a ton and one of those icons is a little doll called Chucky. The Chucky character has been around since the 1980's and has starred in seven films two of which are straight to DVD and is also the star of a 2019 remake and so horror fans i've come up with something slightly original that i'm going to try and attempt and that is to work out a rough timeline for all of the original films in the series going from the original Child's Play all the way to Cult Of Chucky and it goes without saying but there will be spoilers ahead.

Child's Play

Now there's nothing surrounding the age of Charles Lee Ray out there since i'm only going what's stated in the films but we can assume that by his death in the first film he's in his early thirties. That being said the first film starts us of on November 9th 1988 the exact date and year the first film was released. Chucky was sold to Andy's mom Karen the following day November 10th which was also the day when her best friend was killed.

Now on November 11th Andy and Chucky take the train to go and kill Chucky's get away driver Eddie where just like the previous night Andy is the main suspect which he is for most of the film. At dusk the same day Karen finds out that Chucky is evil and thus begins the third act of the film which ends ultimately with the apparent death of Chucky and so as you can see the whole film start to finish takes place over three days.

Child's Play 2

Now from this point onwards there's no clear date and month given but what we do know is that Child's Play 2 picks up two years after the first film and since Andy was just turning six in the first film we can assume he's just turned eight in this one. This film actually takes place over what seems to be a day (there's not that much information out there so i;m doing the best I can and i've not seen 2 ,3 , 4 ,5 and i've only seen 6 and 7 once so bare with me). So assuming that Andy has just turned eight years old that would place this film around December time since if it took place in January that would mean that it takes place nearly three years later instead of two.

Child's Play 3

This one is a little bit trickier to try and work out a time frame for but what I do know for sure is that the film picks up the story and characters eight years later thus meaning it now takes place in 1998. Now given that Chucky had to mail himself we can assume that between him mailing himself and him being discovered by Ronald at least three days if not more have passed. Also taking into account that Andy has only just joined military school we can there for assume that within a few weeks Andy got himself a girlfriend and so we can there for make the assumption that this film takes place over a few months if not a month. 

Again i've not seen this film in a long time so I can't exactly tell you when this film takes place exactly since my memory is a bit fuzzy. However I do remember it being sunny alot so i'm going to make the assumption that it takes place in the summer time and given that Andy is a new recruit there it would be a safe bet that it takes place in June.

Bride Of Chucky

Chucky gets lucky indeed because we now leave the title Child's Play behind and now enter the title Chucky. This film takes place one month after the previous film so there for we are still in 1998 and given that there is a couple going to prom we can there for assume that this film takes place in July. Again there's no clear date given in the film or even on the Child's Play Wiki however given what a vaguely remember about the film it would be a safe bet to assume that this whole film start to finish takes place over at least three to five days.

   Seed Of Chucky

Here we are with another film with the word Chucky in the title and it's now six years later which means this film takes place in 2004 which was also the year that this film came out and this was also the last Chucky film to get a theatrical release as the next two would be straight to DVD. Ok given that must Christmas movies start filming in the summer it would be safe to assume that the opening of this film takes place around that time. Again since there's shipping involved we have to assume that a few days have occurred since we first meet Glenn to him finding Chucky and Tiffany. 

As for the whole film like I said Christmas movies film in the summer so that's a good jumping of point and given that there are at least three or four night scenes after Glenn arrives it would be safe to assume that this film takes place over three or four days but there's a huge chance that i'm wrong. However tho the film does another time jump this time for five years and so we end the film in 2009 on what looks to be a summer day but it could be a Fall / Autumn day.

Curse Of Chucky

This film states that it takes place in 2013 which after doing the math that's not true because this film is said to take place nine years after Seed which means it takes place in 2018. I do have some very vague memories of this film since I did see it when it first came out but that was the last time I saw it however I do recall there being at least three scenes set at night so i'm going to assume that the main bulk of the film takes place over four days but since there's another scene of Chucky being dropped delivered to someone else at the end of the film we know now that six months have passed so at best guess i'd say the film takes place in the winter for the main portion of the film but it ends in the summer.

Cult Of Chucky

Now if we are going by the previous film which states that it takes place in 2013 even tho the math states otherwise then this film would be taking place 2017 but with the math having already been done it takes place in 2022. This film is honestly one of the hardest to try and work out a time frame because there's not that many night scenes however if I remember right there's snow on the ground at the end of the film and possibly all throughout which means that at best the film takes place in December but there's a chance that i;m wrong with that.

Thank you guys for joining me on this very experimental post and yes I know that there's a chance that i'm wrong on more then one occasion but i've done the best I could with the information that was out there and yeah I had to use my own very basic maths skills for the last two films and i'm not very good at maths so if i'm wrong with the years in the last two entries then please let me know and if you would like another post like this then let me know.