Seed of Chucky
Universal Home Video

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When this sequel begins, Chucky's pathetic offspring Shitface (voiced by Lord of the Rings hobbit Billy Boyd) is a bedwetting living doll held captive as part of a vulgar ventriloquist act. He runs away and, through a shipping accident, is sent to a Hollywood prop room where he's reunited with Chucky and his bride Tiffany. Soon, the toy trio runs into Jennifer Tilly (playing herself) who's trying to seduce a movie director (rapper Redman) and land the coveted role of the Virgin Mary. It's a situation ripe for quality kills, and soon the dolls pull off a series of gory slayings.

They also settle down and lead their version of a normal life, impregnating Tilly in order to expand the family. While Tiffany takes to her role as a mother and tries to quit killing via a 12-step program, Chucky takes his kid on his first killing spree, running Britney Spears off the road and slaying a peeping paparazzo, played with glee by gross-out auteur John Waters. A campy slasher flick that once again revives the redheaded death child, Seed of Chucky never tries to be anything but cheesy, and in doing so, succeeds as a caricature of both horror and family films.

The sadistic toys don't stop slaying when the movie's over. A slew of bonus features gives Chucky more opportunities to slake his bloodlust and the audience more chances to laugh at the absurdities of horror flicks. A family slide show commemorates Chucky's cross-country killings. Some of the bonus scenes, like the "Slashed Scene," don't live up to the hype, but the "Making Of" vignette makes up for any omissions. Creator and writer Dan Mancini reveals that the original point of Child's Play, in which Chucky made his debut, was to skewer kids' consumer culture (it came out 20 years ago when the Cabbage Patch craze was in full swing), and Redman reps Chucky, proudly pointing out that the film series is big in the 'hood. The DVD's extras expand the character and legend of Chucky almost as much as the new movie does.

by Max Scottsdale