Child's Play (2019)
Aubrey Plaza buys her son the wrong toy in this remake of the 1988 doll from hell slasher. Brian Tyree Henry (TV's Atlanta) co-stars.
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksA refreshing remake, relevant to today's standards
The Geets (Greats): Despite not watching the original series, I was able to enjoy this movie much better. It highlights the dangers of living in today's society, where electronic/ technology is progressing at alarming rates. Makes you wonder if humans have already become obsolete. Unlike the original, this toy isn't possessed supernaturally but...
Variety
pressRemember the disappointment you felt that Christmas when Santa brought you an off-brand Cabbage Patch Kids counterfeit when you asked for the real thing? Well, if you grew up on the "Child's Play" movies, then brace yourself for more of the same...
Time Out
pressNot helping matters is dead-eyed snark source Aubrey Plaza, somehow less expressive than the doll itself (creepily voiced by Mark Hamill).
The Times
pressIt's a toothsome turn from Hamill, who knows a thing or two about infantilised villainy, having voiced the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.
The New York Times
pressIn trying to build a smarter Chucky, the filmmakers have assembled something unfathomably dumb.
Stuff
pressChild's Play is never going to remembered as affectionately as the original. And that's fair enough. But it does run down the clock with enough jump scares, one-liners and gags to make it just about worth the price of your ticket.
Los Angeles Times
pressBeing an AI with faulty circuitry, Chucky 2.0 doesn't have the hilarious vulgarity or the single-minded murderous glee - the soul, if you will - that made Dourif's Chucky such an unnervingly human abomination.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe makeshift nature of Mancini's originals handily outshines this slick, corporate cash-grab.
Empire Magazine
pressMaking a killer-doll movie out of decent component parts should have been child's play, but this misses the mark.
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksVariety
pressRemember the disappointment you felt that Christmas when Santa brought you an off-brand Cabbage Patch Kids counterfeit when you asked for the real thing? Well, if you grew up on the "Child's Play" movies, then brace yourself for more of the same...
Time Out
pressNot helping matters is dead-eyed snark source Aubrey Plaza, somehow less expressive than the doll itself (creepily voiced by Mark Hamill).
The Times
pressIt's a toothsome turn from Hamill, who knows a thing or two about infantilised villainy, having voiced the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.
The New York Times
pressIn trying to build a smarter Chucky, the filmmakers have assembled something unfathomably dumb.
Stuff
pressChild's Play is never going to remembered as affectionately as the original. And that's fair enough. But it does run down the clock with enough jump scares, one-liners and gags to make it just about worth the price of your ticket.
Los Angeles Times
pressBeing an AI with faulty circuitry, Chucky 2.0 doesn't have the hilarious vulgarity or the single-minded murderous glee - the soul, if you will - that made Dourif's Chucky such an unnervingly human abomination.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe makeshift nature of Mancini's originals handily outshines this slick, corporate cash-grab.
Empire Magazine
pressMaking a killer-doll movie out of decent component parts should have been child's play, but this misses the mark.
A refreshing remake, relevant to today's standards
The Geets (Greats): Despite not watching the original series, I was able to enjoy this movie much better. It highlights the dangers of living in today's society, where electronic/ technology is progressing at alarming rates. Makes you wonder if humans have already become obsolete. Unlike the original, this toy isn't possessed supernaturally but...
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