Director: John Lafia
Writer: Don Mancini
Starring: Brad Dourif and Christine Elise
Body Count: 7
Review: Though many would disagree, I've always felt that Child's Play 2 was a GREAT sequel. Chucky is elevated from simply sinister and evil in part 1 to wise-cracking, funny, but still utterly ferocious and violent in this follow-up.
The film opens with the Good-Guys executives recovering the infamous doll from the first film and refurbishing it (what the hell were they thinking?). Chucky is almost instantly revived and goes about his way, killing indiscriminately as he searches for Andy Barclay so he can be reborn in a human body.
Child's Play 2 works really well because it takes the series to a new level without losing anything. In fact, the film actually plays to a wider audience than Child's Play by upping the gore-factor but still retaining the suspense of the original.
The crowning moment, the coolest sequence of the entire series, comes at the very end of Child's Play 2 at the Good-Guys factory. Chuck is torn apart by various machines, and even though he's in pieces, still manages to throw in a good jolt before the credits to let us know that Child's Play 3 is on its way.
Trivia: In the television version of Child's Play 2, after the climactic exploding head scene, there's an extra shot of a portion of Chucky's face floating in a vat of boiling plastic, on its way to making a fresh doll. This was added (presumably) to help explain Chucky's rebirth in the third film. This shot does not, however, exist on the home video version of the film.
