Review #124: Seed of Chucky (2004)

Cast/Notable Credits:
Don Mancini (Director): Writer & creator of Child's Play

Brad Dourif (Chucky)

Jennifer Tilly (Tiffany): Bride of Chucky

Billy Boyd (Glen/Glenda): The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Redman (Himself): Musician

Hannah Spearritt (Joan): S Club 7 T.V. series & movies

Trailer:



Plot:

Is there really a plot? No. Not really. At the end of Bride of Chucky, a killer baby doll popped out of Tiffany's snatchel, thus setting up another movie in the Child's Play series. With mom and dad long dead, the baby doll has grown up to a kid and found itself in care of a traveling circus. Plagued with nightmares of killing, the kid ponders how he came into the world, and what it is meant for. I refer to the kid as it because it's gender confused. It is referred to Glen/Glenda in the future.

After seeing a Access Hollywood segment about a movie in production featuring Chucky and Tiffany, Glen(da) decides that they were it's parents and must travel to Hollywood to meet them. Off to California! Unfortunately when Glen(da) gets there, it finds that the two dolls he had seen on T.V. are just movie props. Until he performs a little Black Magic on them using the Heart of Damballa Amulet.

Poof! Chucky and Tiffany are both back alive and proud parents of a boy/girl. They debate over the course of the film which gender it is (no plumbing down below), shack up in real life Jennifer Tilly's house while attempting to become human again and shed their captive doll bodies.

Villain:

Three's a crowd! Should have been used last movie with John Ritter. Jon Gruden returns...I mean Chucky and Tiff's back and along for the ride is their child, Glen(da). Gruden...damn it...Chucky secretly tries to teach Glen(da) the tricks of the trade, while Tiff has grown up, hung up her old murderous ways and become mother like.

Dourif and Tilly come back and reprise their roles as the notorious pair of killer dolls and Lord of the Rings hobbit, Billy Boyd, joins the cast as the voice of Glen(da). An interesting fact about Boyd, did you know he was born in 1968? That makes him over forty years old! Holy crap! I always took him to be late twenties, early thirties, but forties?!

Cast:

Really nothing special here. Tilly plays multiple roles as Tiff and her real life self. I wasn't too pleased with that concept. You mean you can't script someone else to play her lead female part?

And if musician Redman is your second leading actor in the film, you know your film's in trouble. Redman...really? Not Busta?

To throw some fuel on the fire, another musician is a key female role. Who would that be? Kelly Rowland? Madonna? Nope. Hannah Spearritt. Who? Hannah Spearritt (Pictured below), one of the females from the UK's pop band S Club 7. I'll let you pause and take that in a little bit.

Members of S Club 7 pictured from left to right are: Paul Cattermole (supporting the pink shirt), Rachel Stevens, Bradley McIntosh (you know you want to say it, token), Tina Barrett, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt and Jon Lee (almost looks like a chick).

SFX/Gore:

There were 13 deaths in the film making it the highest body count for all the Child's Play movies. Still I do not believe that all of them count. Three were done off screen and they were just random people in the closet. Told you that they don't count. Another death came when Chucky apparently runs a Britney impostor off the road. It was funny, but pretty weak.

TNA:

Finally after four movies, Child's Play comes into the adult world. The film gives us two sets of female "fun bags", one real and the other one plastic. Hallejuha! Also involved on the screen is a shower scene, some bondage, a doll masturbating and have I mentioned "fun bags"?

Tilly has let herself go a little bit in this film, but it's not too bad. Gee, I miss the slimmed down sexy chick from the last film. Competing with her for hotness in the movie is Hannah. Luckily for us, Hannah has several beautiful friends that made up S Club 7 and wow...is Rachel Stevens hot or what?

Rachel Stevens (Pictured Below)

Jo O'Meara (Pictured Below)

Tina Barrett (Pictured Below)

Concept:

I really don't know what to say. The title of the movie sounded really promising to me, but I was left with hate and anger over the film. Chucky and Tiff acting as parents to a gender confused kid while attempting to retain human form again. Tiff wants Tilly to be her new human body, while Chucky's down with Redman's body. As for Glen(da), Chucky and Tiff want to use Tilly as a surrogate mother so Glen(da) can have a body. Wow. Deep sh*t here.

T.Gun Factor:

I'm pretty generous when it comes to grading and commenting on horror movies (as you can see in the past), but even this one...I was pissed. I went to see this one in the theaters, and for once I felt ripped off coming out. The script must have been written on the back of a napkin at IHOP. It was six years in between this film and Bride of Gruden...Chucky, and the best you can come up with is THIS?

On top of that, the movie didn't even last that long. It was like 81 minutes. WTF? 81 f*ckin' minutes! That's barely enough time to get popcorn and soda. Some of that was even due to a few "milked" out scenes to extend the movie.

Outside of a few cheap chuckles and a lot of funny one-liners in the film, this film pretty much sucked. The best scene in the movie is probably when Tiff asks Chucky to supply some "man juice" for the surrogate pregnancy. The film actually shows Gruden...I mean Chucky masturbating. It's pretty hilarious.

Misc. Movie Trivia:
-Film opened on November 12, 2004 and made $17 million at the Box Office ($8.7 million opening weekend)

-1st film made by Rogue Pictures

-Gruden was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on January 16, 2009 he won the Super Bowl in 2002 by beating his former team, the Oakland Raiders

S Club 7 Facts:
-Formed by former Spice Girls Manager
-Produced 6 albums
-S stands for "super"