Hey, what can I say? This is the best of the CHILD'S PLAY series (one of my least favs) and I was surprised at how entertained it made me! We open 10 years after the death of notorious serial killer Charles Lee Ray with some goofy cop, as he swipes Chucky's mutilated little doll body and sells it to Chuck's human ex-girlfriend Tiffany... before she kills him anyway. So, Tiff takes Chuck's mangled plastic remains then stitches and staples them back together again. Then she takes the little plastic Frankenstein and resurrects him thanx to her "Voodoo for Dummies" book (okay, even I will admit that was a tad overly cheesy). Their first victim is none other than Tiff's new wanna-be Goth boyfriend Damien. But, Chuck forgets the entire women's lib movement and treats Tiff like shit. Guess he forgot he's only 2 feet tall, because she sticks him in a locked crib! But, Chuck breaks free, throws a TV into Tiff's bath water, then resurrects her in the plastic form of a little bridal doll playmate for Chuck! Now she knows the strains and pains of being trapped in a plastic shell! Anyway, the couple needs to get to Hackensack (like the hippy game?), NJ so they can dig up Chuck's grave, grab a magic amulet buried with his body, and transfer their souls back into some HUMAN shells! After a quick make-over, Tiff calls her trailer trash neighbor and hires him (via phone) to take her two "dolls" to Hackensack, where he'll be nicely rewarded. Jesse (el neighbor)sees this as the perfect opportunity for he and his girlfriend Jade to run away together and escape the iron fist of her po-po uncle, John Ritter! So anyway, they load up the van and thus begins their journey. Chuck and Tiff start picking off victims at convenient stops (John Ritter being the first, falling to a nail gun... just like Martha Stewart would do!) and Jesse and Jade soon become the targets of blame. This leads to bickering amongst them , as they each start thinking the other is responsible till their gay pal Dave (hey, I'm not gay!) comes along. But, soon he thinx they're BOTH killers and turns a gun on them before he gets thrown into the path of a semi and J+J get hijacked by the happy Toys 'B' We refugees. The evil duo tell their whole plan to the kids, but the trip doesn't go without it's fair share of marital bliss, a.k.a. bickering. Finally though, they make it to Hackensack and J+J try blowing up their RV and C+T with it. Too bad for them that C+T survive and a hostage situation ensues. This results in Tiff having this whole morality check-up, which ends with her and Chuck "killing" each other. Lucky for J+J a cop saw the whole thing happen, pronounces J+J dead (which pardons them from the murders), and they run off happily together. Too bad for the cop though, because he gets a visit from C+T's mongrel offspring! Yep, Tiff has a baby before giving her last artificial breath. This of course will lead to the 5th installment, SON OF CHUCKY or SEED OF CHUCKY... can't really remember which. Anyway, like I said, this was actually a pretty good movie and it was backed up by a damn fine soundtrack! Also, some of the scenes were a fucking laugh riot! Especially the "honeymoon" scene! I wonder if Tiff remembered to glue on a vibrator when she rebuilt the Chuckmeister...

Sequels: this IS the 4th of the CHILD'S PLAY series

If You Liked This Flick, Check Out: NATURAL BORN KILLERS or PUPPET MASTER 2