Alexis Arquette, Brad Dourif, Gordon Michael Woolvett

Brace yourself: this is a clever, consistently entertaining, and even inspired continuation of the mean-spirited slasher series. For those not in the know, Chucky is a mop-top kid's doll come to life ...( read more  read more... )with the soul of a serial killer and the voice of Brad Dourif (doing his best Jack Nicholson). Revived by his former paramour Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly, looking every inch a life-size Barbie in stiletto heels and skintight black leather), Chucky proceeds to turn his human sweetie into a pint-sized Talking Tina doll with attitude, and together they hit the road for a magic amulet and young new bodies to inhabit. They hitch a ride with sweet young runaways Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile and leave a trail of corpses bloodied, burned, and cut to ribbons. The kids are cute, but the real heat is generated by the latex lovers who use murder as foreplay and consummate their renewed romance in a night of passionate sex ("Shouldn't you wear a rubber?" "I'm all rubber!"). Hong Kong director Ronny Yu (The Bride with White Hair) directs with a light touch and against all odds transforms walking dolls Chucky and Tiffany into funny, energetic, full-blooded characters: l'amour fou has never been more crazy. John Ritter costars as Heigl's overprotective uncle (another obstacle on the road to dolly freedom) and Alexis Arquette is hilarious as a lanky goth nerd. The wild conclusion leaves room for another high-concept sequel. The DVD features two commentary tracks, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and "Jennifer Tilly's Diary." --Sean Axmaker

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R, 89 min.

Directed by: Ronny Yu

Release Date: October 16, 1998

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DVD Release Date: March 23, 1999

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  • September 30, 2009
    I'm glad that the franchise continued, and I'm glad that they did the most sensible thing and made it a bit tongue in cheek. Chucky is as good as always but all credit goes to Tilly on this one. Ronny Yu's respectful nods to other horror classics are a bonus. Dumb but very very fun!
  • August 30, 2009
    Bride of Chucky starts late one night as Officer Bob Bailey (Vince Corazza) sneaks into the evidence room at his police station & amongst all the horror film in joke props he steals the remains of the Chucky doll that serial killer Charles Lee Ray possessed way back in the origin...( read more)al Child's Play (1988). He drives the remains to an isolated area where Ray's ex girlfriend Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) slashes Bailey's throat & takes the remains back to her trailer. There Tiffany stitches & staples Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) back together again & using a 'voodoo for dummies' book brings him back to murderous life. Thing don't go as Tiffany had hoped & Chucky turns out not to be the man of her dreams after all so she locks him in a play pen at which Chucky is less than happy. While Tiffany takes a bath Chucky escapes, electrocutes her & using that book brings her back to life in the shape of a female doll dressed as a bride. Neither want to be stuck in plastic bodies & have to work together to get to a cemetery in New Jersey where Ray's natural body had been buried with the amulet needed to switch their spirits back into human bodies. The bodies of Tiffany's neighbour Jesse (Nick Stabile) & his girlfriend Jade (Katherine Heigl), who are both on the run from Jade's corrupt uncle Chief of police Warren Kincaid (John Ritter), will do nicely...

    Directed by Ronny Yu I love Bride of Chucky. The script by Don Mancini is great fun, very fast moving, highly entertaining & references plenty of other horror film with good affection. From the opening sequence where we see Jason Voorhees hockey mask from the Friday the 13th films, Freddy Krueger's razor blade glove from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series & Michael Myers mask from the Halloween franchise. To the clips used from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) when it virtually recreates the same scene. Bride of Chucky never takes itself seriously which is just as well, there are lots of one liners, self referential gags that Scream (1996) made trendy a few years earlier & it doesn't seem afraid to poke fun at itself & the horror genre in general. I love the scene when Jesse & Jade are having a clichéd slushy romantic conversation that Chucky hears & he makes funny derogatory comments & gestures throughout. That's not to say that there isn't a damn good film in there as well because there most certainly is. Director Yu manages to create good atmosphere & a real sense of fun, both human & plastic sets of characters are likable & shine as each pair suffer their own sets of domestic problems that the trail of corpses that they are leaving behind would obviously cause. Technically Bride of Chucky is great for the most part & has that big budget polish about it & at about $25,000,000 I should hope so. The only thing that I will say is that some of the puppet effects by Kevin Yagher are a little stiff & unconvincing, I can't remember any CGI scenes in Bride of Chucky either. Thankfully the film doesn't neglect the blood & gore with a cool slit throat, nails blasted into someone's face in presumably a Hellraiser (1987) homage, people impaled on shards of glass, someone being bloodily obliterated by a huge truck, a ripped off lip piercing & various stabbings & gunshots. The acting is pretty good & Dourif as Chucky is very funny as he spouts the one liners out. I also like the scenes with Tiffany at the beginning & find her very sexy when she's wearing all that fetish gear, I can't be the only one surely? I personally think Bride of Chucky is a fantastic film, total entertainment from start to finish, great humour & horror in equal measure & at only 85 minutes long it never becomes boring or dull. A personal favourite of mine, watch it as soon as you can!
  • April 10, 2009
    This recent sequel to the 80s Child's Play series thankfully takes a more tounge-in-cheek approach, which the story of a psychopath in a doll's body is perfectly suited to! The result is hilarious.
  • June 5, 2008
    Now this is how all the chuckys should have been, more in your face comedy, they're killer dolls for crying out loud and thats why this movie works better than its predessors(not counting the original). Its not afraid to make fun of itself, the faults are with the human actors bo...( read more)ring and wooden, just dolls next time please. The last scene is sooooo funny
  • February 25, 2008
    If not for the lame ending, it would deserve five star in my book.
  • November 2, 2009
    This is my very first time of rating a movie zero stars, because it really is that bad!

    I competely take back what I said about 'An American Haunting'. THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!!!
    First of all, I wanted to avoid this...( read more) movie as much as possible. It was on my 'Movies I NEVER Want to See' list, but I don't know what happened. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and my mom and I wanted to watch TV so we watched this. At first, I thought it was so stupid that it was awesome, but then it got ANNOYING! I just wanted to throw the TV out of the window, but there was nothing else on. I don't even know what I did to deserve watching this piece of trash. It probably might have been Karma, or a punishment from God, or something. Did I do something terrible and got this in return? I don't know, but I got what I deserved.
    There were some incredibly odd stuff in the movie that just made me roll my eyes; like Chucky and Tiffany saying 'What would Martha Stewart do?' eveytime they were caught in a bad situation, Tiffany giving birth to a man-eating baby doll at the end, and the doll sex. Ugh, I just wanted to knock myself in the head 'til I had no memory of seeing this.

    For all the people who liked "Bride of Chucky', watch a REAL horror film! I don't want you guys to waste your precious time watching bad stuff like this.
    I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone; not even my worst enemy! That's how much I hate this garbage!
    SKIP-IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • October 29, 2009
    I watched this movie today. Haven't seen it in a Long time! It's one of my favs though. Every time I watch it, I laugh so hard. I am a huge Rob Zombie fan, so I think the sound track kicks ass! Chucky isn't scary anymore, he's just good fun. Jennifer Tilly is such a hottie!!
  • October 27, 2009
    i love these movies i find them entertaining and enjoyable and pretty funny!
  • October 27, 2009
    love this film lol really freaky
  • October 20, 2009
    The worst Chucky movie ever

Critic Reviews


May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Redundant and more than a little wearisome. full review

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Comments


  • FutureMrsNeeson
    October 29, 2009
    WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!!! I feel so sorry 4 the people who had to go thru a lot of pain and suffering from seeing this garbage.
  • iza1992
    February 1, 2008
    it's graet this movie
  • BabaChriseyx
    August 21, 2007
    This Is One Ov My Fav Movies i <3 Chucky Lol x x x
  • msapplebottom707
    June 17, 2007
    I love all Chucky moveis**~**....He's a very sneaky doll**~**...Totally love da movies~**~
  • tmac14621
    March 4, 2007
    Chucky is so twisted! It's so cool! I love the movies! =]
  • mollieholehouse
    February 3, 2007
    bride of chucky is a cool movie.
  • 47hitman
    November 5, 2006
    This was the second best out of all 5 Chucky movies it's nice to see Chucky evolve from crazy killer doll to family man
  • sarahere1
    October 24, 2006
    hi every on do u like chucky

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