{"id":4080,"date":"2024-09-18T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:04:57","slug":"childs-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/18\/childs-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Child\u2019s Play 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Child\u2019s Play 2 <\/strong>(1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Lafia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Graeme Revell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Stefan Czapsky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 9, 1990 (US) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cast: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Brad Dourif, Grace Zabriskie, Peter Haskell, Beth Grant, Greg Germann, Raymond Singer, Charles C. Meshack, Adam Wylie.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $28.5M (US)\/$35.7M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0We all know the rule \u201csequels aren\u2019t equals\u201d. It\u2019s true in most cases; Child\u2019s Play 2<\/strong> is no exception. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as good a movie as its predecessor. It\u2019s still pretty good though. It\u2019s better than some horror sequels. Then again, you\u2019re talking to somebody who has a strange fondness for horror sequels good AND bad. The only way I can explain it is by recalling the tagline for Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 2, \u201cThe body count continues\u201d. I love a horror movie with copious gore and a high body count. Seven people (and one innocent Good Guy doll) get their tickets punched in Child\u2019s Play 2<\/strong>; I realize this isn\u2019t a particularly high number, but it\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Set two years after the first movie, 8YO Andy Barclay (Vincent) is in the foster care system. His mother was committed to a mental hospital for backing her son\u2019s story about his killer doll Chucky (voiced by Dourif). What he doesn\u2019t yet realize is he\u2019s about to have a second encounter with his old \u201cfriend to the end\u201d. The head idiots at the Play Pals Company have rebuilt Chucky from scratch in order to prove to their investors there\u2019s nothing wrong with the Good Guy dolls. Sales have dropped precipitously since the Andy Barclay situation. Rebuilding Chucky also brings him back to life which results in the electrocution death of one of guys working on him. The CEO (Haskell) orders his assistant (Germann, Ally McBeal) to cover up the death and get rid of the doll.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Long story short, Chucky escapes after he manages to locate Andy at his new foster home. They have unfinished business (you know, the whole soul replacement thing). Andy is taken in by Phil (Graham, Used Cars) and Joanne Simpson (Agutter, An American Werewolf in London). She immediately falls in love with the boy; he\u2019s worried they\u2019re not capable of properly caring for a troubled child. It isn\u2019t long until Chucky shows up and takes the place of the Good Guy doll left behind by a previous foster child. Chucky starts doing all sorts of bad stuff that Andy gets blamed for like writing \u201cF*** you, bitch!\u201d on one of his school worksheets. Eventually, the killing starts. In the end, the only one protecting Andy is his teenage foster sister Kyle (Elise, 1994\u2019s Body Snatchers).<\/p>\n

\u00a0The animatronic effects in Child\u2019s Play 2<\/strong> are slightly better here than in the first movie. Chucky\u2019s face is more expressive; his movements seem more fluid. This is the movie where Chucky started establishing his own identity as a horror movie slasher. He gets off some good lines, but for him it\u2019s all in the delivery. No matter what comes out of his mouth (and it\u2019s usually profane), he sounds evil. We have Dourif to thank for that. He\u2019s just great, what more can I say? Vincent is good as Andy. Elise is rather charming in her early 90s punk girl get-up. Both Graham and Agutter are welcome presences. There\u2019s very little in the way of character development and by that I mean none. One gets the idea that Agutter suffered some child-related trauma in the past which is why she became a foster mom. Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks) shows up as a foster care manager. She\u2019s always good.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There are a few cool kill scenes. One guy is electrocuted and thrown through a window. A man is tripped down some basement steps by a hook. Somebody gets stabbed to death near a copier which prints out images of her dying visage. A teacher is stabbed with an air pump and beaten to death with a yardstick. A factory worker falls on a conveyor belt and has his eyes stabbed out. The climax is particularly messy with Andy and Kyle trying to take down Chucky. There\u2019s one bit taken from Evil Dead 2 involving a missing hand and a knife blade (instead of a chainsaw). I can\u2019t really think of anything else to say about Child\u2019s Play 2<\/strong>. It\u2019s a little less clever than its predecessor, but it\u2019s still fun. As far as horror sequels go, it\u2019s pretty decent. I can\u2019t really knock it too badly. What would be the point anyway?\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Child\u2019s Play 2 (1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Lafia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Graeme Revell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Stefan Czapsky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 9, 1990 (US) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cast: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Brad Dourif, Grace Zabriskie, Peter Haskell, Beth Grant, Greg Germann, Raymond Singer, Charles C. Meshack, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Childs-Play-2-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}