{"id":4082,"date":"2024-09-18T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:05:18","slug":"childs-play-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/18\/childs-play-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Child\u2019s Play 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Child\u2019s Play 3 <\/strong>(1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 90 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jack Bender\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Cory Lerios and John D\u2019Andrea\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John R. Leonetti\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 30, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Travis Fine, Dean Jacobson, Brad Dourif, Andrew Robinson, Peter Haskell, Dakin Matthews, Burke Burns, Matthew Walker.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $14.9M (US)\/$20.5M (World)<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0When Einstein said \u201ctime is relative\u201d, he couldn\u2019t possibly have conceived of Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong>. In the real world, only nine months passed since Child\u2019s Play 2. In the reel world, eight years have passed. Andy Barclay, now played by Justin Whalin for obvious reasons, has gone from eight to sixteen years old. How would Einstein explain that?<\/p>\n

\u00a0I didn\u2019t like Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong> too much the first time I saw it. Granted, I was on heavy pain meds at the time just having had my wisdom teeth removed. I didn\u2019t like it any better the second, third or fourth time either. So why should the fifth time be any different? I was all prepared to write a scathing review then a funny thing happened. I found myself enjoying it. It dawned on me that Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong> is the exact kind of horror movie I\u2019ve been clamoring for in the midst of all the watered-down PG-13 jobs that think louder equals scarier. It\u2019s a good old-fashioned R-rated slasher flick with copious amounts of gore, profanity and dead teenagers. Sure, the mad slasher in question is a three-foot doll possessed by the spirit of a serial killer, but he gets the job done. As much as I hate to resort to clich\u00e9s, they don\u2019t make \u2018em like this anymore.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This time, the action takes place at a military school where Andy has been sent after failing to make it in any of the foster homes he\u2019s been in. He\u2019s still troubled by the events of his childhood and it\u2019s about to get bad again. The idiots at Play Pals have decided to start manufacturing Good Guy dolls again. It\u2019s been eight years and the world has forgotten all about Andy Barclay and his twisted fantasies about his Good Guy coming to life and going on a murder spree. Worse yet, they use Chucky\u2019s melted remains in the production of the new dolls. The first one off the line, of course, turns out to be Chucky (voiced by Dourif) who promptly kills the CEO (Haskell) and uses his computer to locate Andy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A package arrives for Andy, but it\u2019s intercepted by a young cadet, Tyler (Sylvers), who decides to keep it for himself after he sees what\u2019s inside, a Good Guy doll. Yes, Chucky has mailed himself to Andy who\u2019s already having a difficult time adjusting to his new surroundings. He\u2019s constantly bullied by Cadet Lt. Shelton (Fine, The Young Riders) who\u2019s obviously seen Full Metal Jacket too many times. He makes a couple of friends, misfit cadet Whitehurst (Jacobson) and female cadet De Silva (Reeves, Old School). Meanwhile, Tyler is in awe of his new friend who quickly realizes that, in his new body, he no longer needs Andy. He can transfer his soul into Tyler\u2019s body instead. When Andy realizes that Chucky is back, he tries to save Tyler from a fate worse than death (and I don\u2019t mean Child\u2019s Play 4).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once again, there are some cool kill scenes in Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong>. A man is strangled with a yo-yo string. Another in crushed in a garbage truck. A student gets shot in the chest after paint pellets are replaced with real ammo during the school\u2019s annual war games. Another gets blown up by a grenade. A man has his throat slit. The final body tally is seven.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As usual, Dourif does a bang-up job voicing Chucky. He\u2019s been a favorite actor of mine for years; he always brings an extra level of cool to his movies. In Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong>, he has some serious competition. Andrew Robinson, best known as serial killer Scorpio in Dirty Harry (1971), plays the school\u2019s sadistic barber whose favorite catchphrase is \u201cPresto, you\u2019re bald.\u201d He camps it up very nicely in a movie that\u2019s played partially for laughs. Another line would\u2019ve made a great tagline if not for one word: \u201cDon\u2019t f*** with the Chuck!\u201d I love it! As for the rest of the performances, the acting is a little better that what you would expect from a horror sequel. Reeves is good as a rebellious type who, of course, falls for Andy. Sylvers is pretty good as Chucky\u2019s next intended target. Fine chews and devours the scenery as the junior jarhead from hell student leader.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m not going to argue that Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong> is great cinema. It\u2019s not, not even by a long shot. It\u2019s very entertaining however. It\u2019s well-directed by Jack Bender (his only feature film) who gives audiences plenty of jump-scares and laughs. The military school setting is a sweet twist. It\u2019s original too. It\u2019s great to see writer Don Mancini, who\u2019s been with the franchise since it started, still cares enough not to deliver a mere rehash. The animatronic effects keep getting better.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Most importantly, Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong> is a fun movie. Sadly, it comes with a bad reputation. Even though it\u2019s long been disproven, it was once rumored that it inspired two young boys in the UK to murder a 3YO boy after they watched the video. A horrible tragedy indeed, but the movie had nothing to do with it. In any event, I\u2019ve come to appreciate Child\u2019s Play 3<\/strong> as an unusually strong horror sequel (it\u2019s better than 2). It certainly beats the PG-13\/found footage crap that passes for horror today.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Child\u2019s Play 3 (1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 90 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jack Bender\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Cory Lerios and John D\u2019Andrea\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John R. Leonetti\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 30, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Travis Fine, Dean Jacobson, Brad Dourif, Andrew Robinson, Peter Haskell, Dakin Matthews, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4698,"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-4082","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-3-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\/4082","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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}