Child's Play 2

They've brought Chucky back. Well, the doll, anyway, just to prove that there was nothing actually wrong with it. Chucky continues to hunt Andy down, who is now living with foster parents.

Information
Title: Child's Play 2
Tagline: Sorry Jack... Chucky's Back!
Producer: David Kischner
Director: John Lafia
Written By: Don Mancini
Company: Universal
Rating: R
Year: 1990
Run Time: 84 minutes

Cast
CHUCKY - Brad Dourif
ANDY BARCLAY - Alex Vincent
JOANNE SIMPSON - Jenny Agutter
PHIL SIMPSON - Gerrit Graham
KYLE - Christine Elise
GRACE POOLE - Grace Zabriskie
SULLIVAN - Peter Haskell
MISS KETTLEWELL - Beth Grant

Reviews
The Chucky Source: I love this movie. Andy is adorable. Chucky has lines that make me giggle. The violence that Chucky displays in this movie always makes me happy. His not-so-empty threats fill me with glee. It has some pretty kick-ass moments, like when Chucky adds a weapon to himself. The deaths are fun. This may be my favorite movie out of all of 'em. I wanna see more of Chucky being mean and nasty and violent. It's his best side.
Richard Harrington: "Child's Play 2 is an inevitable sequel that's not as good as its progenitor, but better than most movies with the numbers 2 through 8 in their titles..." [more]
Stomp Tokyo: "The unquestionable highlight of Child's Play 2 is Chucky himself. The new incarnation is much more expressive and lifelike, if such a term applies, than the previous Chucky puppet..." [more]

Story *contains spoilers*
Sorry Jack, Chucky's back! They're rebuilt him. They've made him better, stronger, faster... Pretty much all in an attempt to prove that, hey, our dolls aren't possesed and trying to murder your children! Chucky's charred body has been gathered. His head is scrapped clean of the charred flesh. His eyes are replaced. Hit teeth and tongue are cleaned. He gets new arms and legs and all of the goodies. He is given new skin and spray-on features. He even gets batteries this time! Awesome. The problem with the doll seems to be some switched voice cassette thing.

"Hi, I'm Chucky. I'm the Lake Shore Stranger and I'm gonna kill you."

That is some fun stuf right there. It turns out that the police have denied everything that they saw. Andy's mom backed up his story, and now she's under psychiatric observation. The good news is that th Play Pal people have the doll and have rebuilt it and it all checks out. Nothing was wrong with the doll. Or so they thing. As the eyes are being set into Chucky, the operator is shocked. Behold the awesome graphics. The man is sent flying backwards. Looks like Chucky is back!

Andy is stuck being observed. People keep prodding and poking his mind! Personally, I would not mind having a doll with Chucky inside of it... Must be that whole thing about chicks and serial killers. The power drives us nuts, I suppose, and the thought of taming such... Anyway! Andy is adorable and he is taken in by foster parents until his mother recovers. These kind people Joanne and Phil Simpson. Phil has his doubts about Andy. He thinks that Andy is really fucked up and is not too keen on having him in the house.

There are lots of toys and goodies waiting for Andy at the Simpsons, as well as the awesome foster sister, Kyle. There are a lot of family heirlooms, lots of breakable things on display. In Andy's room there is a Good Guy doll. It falls on him.

The assistant guy from Play Pals is stuck with this damn doll. It's already caused catastrophe. As this guy, Max, makes a stop for some drinky-drinky, Chucky uses the phone to contact the Crisis Center that set up Andy with his foster parents. He finds the address and makes his move. He attacks Max when he gets back into the car. He forces him to drive and eventually suffocates him to death with a bag. Andy is as good as his. Chucky sneaks in and finds the other Good Guy doll, Tommy. He bases Tommy's face in with one of those priceless herlooms and burries him in the back yard under the swing.

"Eat dirt, Tommy."

He then takes Tommy's place. The broken heirloom is found and Kyle and Andy are grounded. Phil still seems antsy about Andy. Andy finds the Tommy doll and checks to see if he has batteries. Satisfied with these findings, he shows Phil and Joanne that he's not afraid. He takes Tommy, who is really Chucky, out into the yard to play. Of course, Chucky cannot just sit silently. As Andy sleeps, Chucky ties him to the bed and gags him. He tries to take his soul then and there but Kyle interrupts. She finds him tied and then the Simpsons waltz in and yell at Kyle. Andy tries to make Phil believe him that it's Chucky. Phil, fed up, throws Chucky down the stairs into the basement. Out of sight, out of mind, right?

Chucky notices that his nose is bleeding. He's already becoming human. He needs to get into Andy, and fast. Andy's first day of school is an eventful one. Chucky sneaks in during recess and messes with papers. Very tense, something is up! This kid picks on Andy during class and Andy turns around and yells:

"Get lost, microchip."

I wish more people these days called each other "microchip" as an insult. The teacher, Miss Kettlewell (who, I just realized in the middle of writing this up, also plays Kitty Farmer from Donnie Darko, which excites me greatly), snaps back at Andy. As she is looking through papers, she sees the artwork taht is Andy's. "FUCK YOU BITCH" in red crayon. Beautiful. Andy finds Chucky in the cabinet at about the same time Miss Kettlewell confronts Andy about his paper. She notices him looking at Chucky. Pissed, she throws the doll in the teacher's closet thing, thinking that Andy wants toys. As she leaves, locking Andy into the room, Andy feels the need to investigate. Is that really Chucky? You bet your ass it is.

"Please, let me outta here Andy. It's dark in here. I promise I wont kill anyone else. Okay? NOW OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR! Lemmie out, you little dick. Lemmie the fuck out!"

Andy opens a window and runs. Miss Kettlewell returns to the empty room and notices the rattling door. Thinking it's Andy, she yells at him. She opens the door, but she does not find Andy. Suddenly she is stabbed with an air pump. Chucky makes his entrance. He then goes on to beat her to death with a meter stick. What a way to go out. When Andy gets back to the Simpsons, he tries to tell Phil and Joanne, but of course they don't believe him. He still blames Chucky for everything. Phil forces Andy to open the basement door to look at the doll at the bottom of the steps. Of course he's back in place! Chucky is slick like that. Phil is getting more and more upset with Andy. He wants Andy out.

Andy needs to get rid of Chucky, once and for all. Using what I think is a ham slicer thingie, he makes his way into the basement under the cover of darkness. The kid has guts. Andy ends up making a racket with his random flailing and flopping. Especially after Chucky jumps on him. Phil comes down to investigate. He sees Andy with the knife. As Phil goes down the stairs to reason with Andy, Chucky trips him. He hangs for a few moments and he sees Chucky face to face.

"How's it hangin', Phil?"

Chucky drops him. Phil lands on his head and breaks his neck. Joanne and Kyle come down. Joanne freaks out about Andy. She yells at him to get away from her. Joanne packs Andy's stuff and he is sent back to the Crisis Center to wait for a new foster family. Kyle finds Chucky underneath the stairs int he basement and trashes him. She needs time to think, so she sits outside on the swing, smoking. As she swings, she begins to notice that something is coming up from under the dirt. Shoes. Doll shoes. Digging them up, she realizes that, hey, I found Tommy! ... Wait, I just threw Tommy's ass away. Uh-oh-spagetti-o's! She looks in the trash can where she just put Chucky. Of course he's gone!

She runs upstairs to find Joanne after hearing a crashing noise in the house. Before she searches, though, she finds a knife... As if that will really protect her. There Joanne is, sewing away in her room... Back turned to the door. Of course she doesn't answer to her name being called. She's been strangled to death. Chucky then attacks Kyle from behind. She loses the knife during the struggle. Chucky starts to bite her neck. He seems to enjoy biting things. I guess there isn't much one can do as a doll. Kyle knocks him off and then loses him. But not for long. He takes her captive and forces her to drive him there. A cop pulls them over but she evades a speeding ticket. The cop seems interested in the Good Guy doll. Especially after Chucky's nose starts to bleed.

"You seen dolls that pee? This one bleeds. Heh."

Fed up with Chucky, Kyle slams on the break and sends Chucky out of the windshield. She floors it, sending him forward.

"You goddamn women drivers!"

She tries to crush him, but only ends up crashing the car. She gets out of the car realizing that she has to protect Andy. Chucky takes her on from behind again, knife to her throat. She shows up at the Center, Chucky in her arms, knife to her neck. She pulls the alarm, sending all of the children out of bed. Andy meets them in the stairwell. The hunt for Chucky begins.

The head lady is pissed. She finds Kyle and Andy stopped in the hall. She pulls them, along with Chucky, into her office for a good talking-to (yelling-at). She takes Chucky who comes to life in her arms. He stabs her in the chest, killing her. Andy looks so very bothered. This is the second dead person that he's seen in one night. Then again, it's Kyle's third. Kyle tries to run with Andy, but Chucky manages to trap Andy in the room with him as the dead lady. Chucky tells Andy to get moving and to do what he says... But Andy seems pretty focused on the corpse.

"Snap out of it! Ya act like you've never seen a dead body before."

Chucky forces Andy into the back of an open newspaper truck. Kyle is hot on their trail. Hilarious antics ensue! They chase culminates at a Good Guy doll factory. Finally, Chucky can take the warm body he has been after. He finally gets his date with the six-year-old boy who is now eight.

"Close your eyes and count to seven. When you wake, you'll be in heaven."

I love the lines in this movie. They fill me with happiness and remind me of Ireland. I have no idea why. So, Chucky tries to take Andy. The storm comes, he gets through it all... But he's still trapped in the body. And my, oh, my is he pissed. Kyle jumps in and causes enough distraction by pushing Good Guy doll boxes on Chucky so that Andy can run. A wild chase through the factory happens. Andy and Kyle work their way through a maze of boxes, getting no where fast. They do, however, end up going up the chute into the actual factory area of the place. Chucky is hot on their trail. He ends up getting his hand caughted in a metal grate. Andy and Kyle are given a head start on freedom.

Chucky has no other choice than to pull his hand off. He needs to kill Andy.

"I'm gonna get you fuckers!"

Yes. Chucky is mad. It takes a real man to rip his own hand off and then continue walking. Kyle and Andy find an exit, but have to sneak through a machine that puts eyeballs in dolls. Kyle is nearly eyed to death.

Chucky, insane man that he is, pulls the knife handle off and jams the blade into his arm. How kick ass is that? It takes guts. It makes me proud.

"I hate kids."

The exit is locked! Oh no! And a blockage in the eye machine makes an alarm go off in an office somewhere in the factory. The guy goes to check on it, but Chucky ends up getting him eyed. Mm, doll eyes. Sounds tasty. Andy and Kyle come upon a machine that, when you run it backwards, locks dolls one-by-one in a chamber and horrible mutilates them with hot plastic and arms. Loojs like they have a plan! Indeed, Chucky gets his crotch stapled to a platform thanks to the very machine that planted the hair on his head. Andy hits the button and Chucky is sent backwards into that wonderful cage of torture. The man goes through a lot, I'll tell you what. He suffers with the best of 'em.

All that rolls down the belt is a mass of doll legs and the melted twisted pile that is left of Chucky's close. Finally feeling safe, Andy and Kyle start to leave. They miss the puddle of blood and drag marks. Chucky is not brought down that easily. All of a sudden, a dead body swinging on a rope, the eyed man, hits Kyle and tosses her onto one of the belts. Chucky pulls himself into the scene, promising Andy that he is about to have his legs cut off. As Chucky goes to stab Andy, he gets his arm knife stuck in a vent. Lucky for Chucky, he's standing under a dripping valve. And it's not dripping cold water. Andy releases the hot plastic onto Chucky, burning him. Chucky screams as he melts. Just in time, Andy goes to save Kyle who is about to get arms attached to her head. That factory is dangerous, I'll tell you what.

Andy and Kyle stand over the molten plastic blob that was the Lake Shore Strangler. But Chucky never goes down the easily. A burning mess, he attacks Kyle. She sticks a gas line in his mouth. His head grows bigger and bigger. Boom! Like a balloon, his head explodes. Finally, seriously, Chuck is gone... In this movie, anyway. The giant factory door opens and Kyle and Andy step out into the day. The credits roll.