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This horror film, directed by Ronnie Yu, marked a return (after an eight-year lapse) of Chucky and the Child's Play series that began in 1988. At the moment of his death, the spirit of former serial k... read more read more...iller Charles Lee Ray was mystically relocated in the doll Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif). After being salvaged from the evidence morgue by his ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) and a corrupt cop, Chucky is put back in action when Tiffany sews his pieces back together and works a voodoo spell to revive his sinister self. Tiffany sees her dreams of marriage aren't working out, so she keeps Chucky locked away. After an escape, Chucky electrocutes Tiffany by pushing a radio into the bathtub, delivering a chant that puts the spirit of Tiffany into a bridal figurine. Chucky's amulet can switch them back into their original human forms, so they head for New Jersey where the amulet is buried -- putting cops in motion, along with car-crash carnage. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Ronny Yu

Release Date: October 16, 1998

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DVD Release Date: March 23, 1999

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  • ajv2688
    November 21, 2011
    ajv2688
    This movie brings humor to the Child's Play series, as well as a love interest for its villain. I really enjoyed this movie, Jennifer Tilly is great, she really brings energy to this film. If you liked the first three films of this series, don't miss this one.
  • cosmo313
    August 15, 2010
    cosmo313
    Besides taking the series in a far more comedic direction, it's takes it in a new and kinda clever direction in general. I liked that it plays with Chucky's history and character, and that he wasn't just trying to go after Andy again. However, I think it would have been cool (and... read more still would be cool) if they did have another sort of confronation between Chucky and Andy again, a la Halloween: H20.

    Jennifer Tilly does a great job as Chucky's love interest, and she makes a wickedly cool doll as well. Brad Dourif shines as usual, milking his most famous (yet not best) role for all it's worth. The direction is pretty good for this type of thing, the soundtrack is serviceable, and the urder setpieces are awesome. I think the script could have been a little better, but I'm not demanding Shakespeare or anything.

    All in all, a fun little thrill ride. It's also hilarious to see Katherine Heigl before she got really famous.
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    June 9, 2010
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Bride Of Chucky follows the comedy formula of the third film and is one of the first Chucky films in the teen Horror era of the late 90's. The film is downright silly, and is actually better than part 3, but not by much. By this point in the franchise, it official that this entry... read more is more of a comedy than anything else. There's not a horror element to be found in this film, and when something scary is supposed to happen, you don't even care. For die-hard fans of the first three, some may feel that this film is one of the worst, if you want the worst film in the series view the Seed Of Chucky. Even if this series is terrible, it can be viewed as a guilty pleasure.
  • 3niR
    May 22, 2010
    3niR
    The "making love" scene was weird. Seriously -_-
  • ScoopOnline
    December 12, 2009
    ScoopOnline
    The Honeymoon was a Killer with a playmate of his own.
  • Deano78
    November 29, 2009
    Deano78
    Really surprised at so many high ratings for this? It has turned into a comedy now and almost makes fun of its self in the process. Definitely not scary, not that many kills or gore in this one either. One for fans really, I enjoyed the first one the most. This is maybe the 3rd b... read moreest of the first four films, but it is the funniest.
  • FiLmCrAzY
    October 27, 2009
    FiLmCrAzY
    i love these movies i find them entertaining and enjoyable and pretty funny!
  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    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!
  • matertenebraum
    August 30, 2009
    matertenebraum
    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 moreal 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!
  • stormyweather980
    August 15, 2009
    stormyweather980
    When I started watching "Bride of Chucky" I was expecting it to be a great horror movie like the rest of the "Child's Play" series. I was disappointed after I saw it because I thought it was more of a comedy movie than it was a horror movie. It wasn't scary at all, in fact it was... read more more silly than it was scary. I like comedy movies, but not when it comes to great series of horror flicks like "Child's Play."
    In my opinion, they ruined the classic "Child's Play" horror movies when they made this movie. "Bride of Chucky" is an alright movie, it's just not what I was expecting it to be after seeing all the other movies of the series. If you want to see a "Child's Play" movie that's not anything like the others in the series, you might like this movie. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. I love all the Child's Play movies, but didn't like this one much at all.

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Critic Reviews

Tim Brayton
July 17, 2011
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

The best of the self-aware slasher satires of the late 1990s. Full Review

Carly Kocurek
January 1, 2011
Carly Kocurek, Common Sense Media

Grisly, tongue-in-cheek sequel isn't for kids. Full Review

David Nusair
January 3, 2008
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

...feels more like a parody of these movies than a natural extension of the world established in part one. Full Review

Chuck O'Leary
March 4, 2006
Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

A hilariously campy and surprisingly diverting horror sequel that's always smartly aware of its own ridiculousness.

Nick Schager
May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Redundant and more than a little wearisome. Full Review

Fred Topel
July 14, 2003
Fred Topel, About.com

The perfect satirical horror. Brilliant observations about the genre, the media and the goth scene. Hilarious, and you actually care about the characters.

James Sanford
July 2, 2003
James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

at least everyone involved seems to have approached the project with tongues firmly in cheek, and for that reason alone, the movie is a whole lot better than it has any right to be. Full Review

Kevin A. Ranson
April 6, 2003
Kevin A. Ranson, MovieCrypt.com

Any film where John Ritter dies TWICE can't be all bad.

Ken Hanke
April 2, 2003
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Pokes fun at the genre (while respecting it), but more importantly, it pokes fun at itself and the whole concept of series horror. Full Review

John R. McEwen
February 8, 2003
John R. McEwen, Film Quips Online

As with the first three films in the series, it is more a showcase for puppetry and animatronics than for acting or directing... Full Review

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    • Chucky: Go ahead and shoot! I'll be back! I ALWAYS come back!... But dying is such a bitch.
    • Jesse: They think we're mass murderers!
    • David: Multiple murderers, actually. Mass murderers kill a whole lot of people at the same time, like at the post office.
    • Chucky: Go ahead and shoot! I'll be back! I ALWAYS come back!... But dying is such a bitch.
    • Tiffany / Tiffany Doll: You never really killed anybody, did you? Did you? Did you, you pathetic worm!
    • Tiffany / Tiffany Doll: [after killing a cop] Oh no! What do we do?
    • Chucky: I don't know! What would Martha Stewert do?
    • Tiffany / Tiffany Doll: Barbie, eat your heart out.
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  • Which "Child's Play" film is the 1st time we see Chucky with a face that is sown back together?  Answer »
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