Child's Play 2

CHILD’S PLAY 2

A fun sequel that opens with the charred remains of the Chucky doll being cleaned up and rebuilt by the company that makes the Good Guys line of toys, Child’s Play 2 finds Andy Barclay placed with foster parents (Phil and Joanne Simpson) while his biological mother undergoes psychological evaluation.  Another foster kid (a teen girl named Kyle) also lives with the Simpsons.  A toy company executive makes the mistake of placing Chucky in his car, and Chucky forces the fellow to drive him to Andy’s new neighborhood.  Chucky infiltrates the foster home and poses as Tommy (an identical doll that was already in the house).  Mayhem ensues when Andy realizes that Chucky’s back, still trying to transfer his soul into Andy’s body.  Chucky murders the Simpsons and attacks Kyle.  The third act takes place in the toy factory that makes the dolls, where Andy and Kyle have a series of climactic battles against the antagonist.

Child’s Play 2 includes some creative death scenes (a particularly gruesome one involves a factory worker on a conveyer belt where the doll eyes get installed) and explains the loose ends from the first film (the two cops who witnessed Chucky’s rampage deny the story told by Andy and his mother, probably so they can keep their jobs).  I’m quite curious to watch the third film in the series to see how Chucky returns yet again given his fairly definitive destruction at the end of this installment.  While not high art, Child’s Play 2 is an entertaining eighty-minute popcorn horror film that delivers some dark humor along with plenty of scares.  I look forward to the further adventures of Chucky, the doll with the soul of a serial killer.