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By BRIAN SHELTON
Staff Writer
Folks, before I begin my review
of Child's Play 3, I've got to get
something off my chest. The day I
run from a foot-tall doll is the day
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human-being and become a plant
OK, I feel better now. For the
life of me, I just can't figure out
why all these people in these movies
are terrified of this Chucky
character. He's got this little knife,
these short, stubby legs (which
means he probably can't run very
fast) and spends most of his time
delivering these stupid, unfunny
one-liners. Come on, my Grandmother
is scarier than he is.
Of course, I'm not saying dolls
can't be scary. Take for instance
those "Cabbage Patch Dolls" that
used to be so popular a few years
ago. They had those fat cheeks,
those hollow, sunken eyes and that
blank expression and possessed
normally gentle parents to fight to
the death just to obtain one for
their children. They certainly sent
chills up my spine but Chucky just
gets on my nerves.
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Apparently, though, he has become
another horror anti-hero like
Jason and Freddy Krueger so they
have decided to churn out another
installment of Child's Play. I
would love to say Child's Play 3
actually has a plausible story this
time or characters that don't act
like "living brain-donors" but, unfortunately,
it doesn't. It merely
just rips off the first two films and
has decided to add even more illogical
plot twists.
For those of you unfamiliar with
the stay, Chucky is a toy doll who
has the soul of homicidal killer
Charles Lee Ray trapped inside of
him. I don't have the time or the
patience to explain how this came
about (let's just say it has something
to do with "voodoo") but the
first two movies focused on him
trying to get out of the doll's body
and into that of 8-year old Andy's.
Of course, no one believed
Andy's story of a homicidal doll
ana, as a resun, most or mem ended
up pushing up daisies. At the
end of Part 2, he was able to convince
his stepsister and, at the conclusion,
he seemingly obliterated
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Chucky but, unfortunately, it
wasn't
Part 3 opens with a totally ludicrous
rebirth of Chucky which
was probably thought up by somebody
who was drinking heavily.
Unlike the second film, which actually
went through some time and
effort in explaining how Chucky
could return, Part 3 has him alive
and kicking by the end of the
opening credits with little explanation
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skip things like plausibility and reality
and get right to the senseless
slaughter.
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