The Reel Rejects - CHILD'S PLAY (2019) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:17 Okay. I've been listening to Mark Hamel's voice for a long time. I can't believe I didn't pull that one. That's on me. Okay. Friends, Citizens of the Reject Nation, we just watched Childs Play the 2019 remake. If you watched it with us and you liked us, you loved us, you want some more of us and you're on Apple or Spotify. Give us that five star. Don't forget, thumbs up, comment. Watch time matters. So stay through to the end. We got some cool things to say or we'll see if we have cool things to say. I'm just going to kick us off from Jump. I have to tell you how I feel. Do it. this is an amazing franchise yeah i love this franchise there has not been one movie including this movie that i disliked that being said this did not have the same magic for me that the what do we call on the braddorf chucky's had right it just this was they did a good job with this

Starting point is 00:02:20 reboot but it missed the like spunk that we had grown in the other one for me so i really did enjoy this, but it's like not comparable to the OGs for me. Yeah, I absolutely agree. I think set from the start, the tone of most of the other Chucky's are more like, you called it early on, were more adult, even though it's like kids could watch them. I guess if you had cool parents or whatever. Because it's literally an adult in Chucky's body. It's a serial killer.

Starting point is 00:02:51 Absolutely. Yeah. And I think that there was more, I mean, I was a little not totally confused. why they're straightly are. There's a lot of blood and there's some murder in here, but there's more adult-esque language and circumstances that happen in the other Chuckie movies than happens in this one. It seemed more... Yeah, like we were hung up on dick here. They're like, he can say a dick. Yeah, it just seemed a little more amateur in that way versus in the other ones we just sort of were like, we're going to fly by the seat of our pants with Chuckie here.

Starting point is 00:03:24 What did you think by the end of this? Because of course, because of course, because of, because it's different. At first, the design of Chucky is going to be jarring to us. Yeah. What did you think by the end, how do you feel about this new Chucky design? I hate it. I don't, I mean, I don't like it at all. I'm like, maybe they couldn't get the complete rights to it. I get, I get what they're trying to do that they're like, okay, we grew out of Chucky. Let's pretend we're in the 2000s. You're not going to resell a Chuckie, but I don't know why I get what, there's half of it. We're going to go with the design because it's creepy as hell. The other half is like, I'm not convinced that in the real world, children like this doll and want to play with it. Yeah. Because it looks absolutely

Starting point is 00:04:11 terrifying to me. Chuckie looks freaking scary too, but in a weird, in a weird way where it's like, you kind of are like, I kind of get it, right? I kind of get it. With this guy was like, he's a disaster from start to finish. I hate it. His face, I don't, I didn't want it. Yeah, it's like when Andy is doing, like, Chuckie make wide face. Like, I'm trying to make you look creepy.

Starting point is 00:04:31 He's like, no, you still look cute. I'm like, he only looks creepy ever. There's no part of him that's cute. Like the other Chuckie at first, it can be a little cute. Yeah. This is like, that's just creepy from jump. You're a creepster. Your cheeks are creepy.

Starting point is 00:04:44 Your eyes are creepy. Your movement's creepy. Your voice is creepy. Great job, Mark Camel. Creep, creep in the streets. You're a creeper. Yeah. What about how this one looked? Obviously, the previous ones had a little more grit to them. This was a little shinier, a little more polished. How did you feel about that? Well, there wasn't any, like, big cinematography, like, moves that I was like, wow, this is really cool, except for, I like the style choice of when they shown the red on when they shoved him in the closet. It was like a red, blue, and orange. There was a theme there with that lighting. I like that. that. I like the ending shot. That was like very cinematic with the light coming through those fans and

Starting point is 00:05:29 they're on the ground. And when we walk in, we see mom, there is a picture where she's, the master shot is very cool. Other than that, it seemed pretty, fairly cookie cutter. I mean, nothing too wild here where I was like, wow, that's a, that's a dope shot. There's some reflection thoughts in here. I was kind of sad that we didn't get a knife reflection of buddy. And if we did, and I missed it. That's my bad. But we've used it in a lot of the past Chuckies. That's a good, like, OG callback to be like, hey, like, hats off to what was established in all of the other ones is that we do normally get, he has that knife and we get a shot of a reflection of his face in that knife. I'm not saying you should use all the, this is a new, newer movie to trying to go their own

Starting point is 00:06:13 way. And they're probably like, we're not going to reuse a lot of stuff that's happened. I get that. there's just something that I wasn't as excited by this movie as I was probably about the other ones and I don't know if that has to do necessary with Buddy or also the story and the plot. I like that

Starting point is 00:06:31 the deaths in the beginning were justifiable. The two doucheeramas, it couldn't wait for them to die. Those were fun for me but it took a little, it took a second to get there and I think maybe it felt longer for me because I didn't like Buddy. I hear you on all of that. I do like that we

Starting point is 00:06:47 homage to the first, the original one. Like, we start with the death out the window, which is kind of like the best friend that died and the first one out the window, right? We use the character names, the same thing with the apartment, people not believing there is enough, but I do like that when you speak about going their own way, they didn't just repeat the story. I didn't prefer this story to the first one, but I did appreciate that they made it different and they didn't just hit the same beats.

Starting point is 00:07:17 They use like the same characters and themes, but different story like we spoke about with the AI. How do you feel about the performers in this one? Do you feel like this Andy stacks up to that, Andy? How did you feel that Aubrey Plaza did? I feel like the kid is, he's a solid actor. I mean, Aubrey Plaza always does a great job. And I think especially with her like subtlety in what she normally does, she did a great, great job in this as well. But honestly, the O.G. Andy, he holds a certain type of place in my heart because I just, from his acting as a kid, I just, everything he did was just so on the nose. With this kid, I thought he did such a great job. And I don't know why there's one moment. He's looking at Buddy in the closet and he's already sobbing. He's already crying. But then we find, then there's like a minute later,

Starting point is 00:08:17 where he kill, the buddy does something real bad and the kids are there. And that's when I thought that would be a reasonable time for him to cry now. He cries a lot in this movie. I don't know if that's an actor's choice or a direction choice. That was the only time where I thought, wait, is this your only trick up your sleeve or you feel like you have to do this to make you look like you're a good actor? I don't think, I think it's got to be a director's choice. He's too young to have that have been a him choice.

Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah. Okay. And I didn't, I didn't really agree. I thought it was a little too much, a little too heavy-handed. And some of those, some of those points where that could have happened, I think could have happened at better points. But overall, I mean, the casting, everyone in this, I absolutely believed. Nobody really rubbed me the wrong way or did a thing where I didn't believe him. I think I really like the chemistry the most between the detective and the mom.

Starting point is 00:09:10 and when Andy was in that dinner with him, I love that, that chemistry there. I thought it was so great. That was good. It was great. I liked it when it was him and Aubrey too, but I felt stronger about the chemistry with them and that dinner. I wanted to see more of that story.

Starting point is 00:09:27 And then she dined. Yeah, it's sad. Let's go over a little bit of the cast. Tim Matheson, who I was like, oh, my gosh, I must know who that is. And you had said that you had seen him in a show recently. That's the guy who's on the screen all the time. Yes, he's in virgin.

Starting point is 00:09:40 River. So I know him from the West Wing. Oh, yeah. She played the vice president. So I was like, okay, definitely must know him. He was also in National Lampoon's Animal House, which I feel like one of us should have picked up on. Okay, the kid, his name is, well, it says his name is Ben, but we're looking for Andy. Oh, the cast is in credit order, but it's really not. Let's see. I'm just looking for Andy, guys. Gabriel Bateman. Okay, let's see what he's done.

Starting point is 00:10:12 He was in the Fableman's. He played Roger in the Fableman's. Oh, that's maybe why I know him. He was in this. He was in just beyond unhinged, think like a dog, Robert the Bruce. Do you know any of these things? No. Okay.

Starting point is 00:10:28 Oh, he was in a show called Outcast that I saw too. Maybe from that American Gothic. He did 13 episodes. Wow, Kid has 31 credits on IMDB. Way to go, Kid. Yeah, I get it. You are a young in and you are working. The guy that was a Jack Black lookalike for me,

Starting point is 00:10:48 he was in a million little things, which I, in an episode of that, he was in an episode of Lucifer. We've seen him all of our TV also. So a lot of these people we recognize from a bunch of different things, but it was cool that nobody other than Aubrey Plaza was like, well, Brian Tyree,

Starting point is 00:11:05 he's obviously super famous too. Yeah. I just mean like everybody lost themselves in these roles. It wasn't like that, Sylvester Stallone. Right. You know, like really good job of that. This guy, Lars, who's the director here, I don't know who he is. Me neither.

Starting point is 00:11:20 This is a huge property for him to be working on. What else is he done? He did a movie called Polaroid. Other than that, he's done shorts. Polaroid with a bunch of people I don't know. Okay. And then he got this. What about Polaroid?

Starting point is 00:11:36 What before Polaroid done? I said a bunch of shorts. Okay. Only shorts. Like, it's short called Polaroid. Polaroid. Short called the wall. I'm not lying to you, Syrian hero boy.

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Starting point is 00:16:19 Because I don't know. Well, no, I thought maybe I knew one of the shorts possibly. If I'd heard a name, then I'd be like, oh, because some of them, some shorts can go pretty big. But I've never heard of Polaroid. Maybe it was a very good. I won a lot of awards and they were like, cool, you're it, buddy. No, I don't know. I think he did it. He just knows people. Yeah, or he made a great pitch, you know, it was like, this is what I want to do with it. I want to do it. But with AI and they were like, yeah. Although he didn't write the script. So they must have pitched him. I'm not sure. Let's do a little bit of trivia. Let's see what we got here. Don Mancini, who's obviously the creator, the character and the series and everything that we had seen previously is not. It's

Starting point is 00:16:58 not involved in this film and has, along with Alex Vincent, Christine Elise, and Jennifer Tilly expressed his lack of interest in it. Yeah, I get it. I mean, that's a burn. That's a sick burn. If this comes out, which I believe it was theater released, that does not look good on you. Like, if I was the director of this and they were like, we are not involved with this, I would be embarrassed. The original creators of Chuckie and every sequel before this decided to do a separate television series to continue the storyline there. They were like, nah, not only were not involved, but we're going to keep doing it, but not with you guys.

Starting point is 00:17:34 Got it. Mark Hamill previously voiced Chucky in the television series Robot Chicken 2001, the episode Plastic Buffet in 2005. Oh, okay. That's funny. Didn't know that. Tom Holland, the director of the original film posted on Twitter about Mark Hamill's casting of Chuckie as a smart move.

Starting point is 00:17:51 That is a very smart move. I still can't believe I didn't recognize his voice. He's such a good voice actor. Of course, I didn't recognize it, though. he does a great job of like morphing it yeah uh but it is smart because fans have a near and dear place in their heart to him and it's hard when you're not going with brad but like then you're like but it is mark gamble yeah yeah okay the horror film the kids are watching chucky interpreting it is texas chainsaw massac too oh the film features narrative

Starting point is 00:18:21 material relating to andy's father and karen's husband details that originally omitted from the original 1988 film, which included a deleted scene where Andy Barclay, played by Alex Vincent, showed a framed picture of his father to Chuckie, stating he died in a car crash. Oh, okay. There are various, very obvious callouts to E.T., the extraterrestrial throughout the movie. Chuckie has a glowing finger that makes things work. Andy wears a bright red sweater through most of the movie. Chuckie learns how to do things from watching TV, just as E.T. does.

Starting point is 00:18:55 Got it. Okay. Okay. So that's a little more on this. I'm curious because this is in more recent times how this did for Rotten Tomatoes. What would be your guess? For the people for the Rotten Tomatoes, I would say they're going to say it's 55. And for audience score, I'll say it's 65. Okay. I'm just making sure that I'm on the right one because it doesn't differentiate on Rotten Tomatoes. So let me go to the cast to make sure. Nope, this is the wrong one. You talk to the people. Yeah. I will. I, you know, I, this makes me. Okay. Go ahead.

Starting point is 00:19:48 I'm curious though. So what would say the numbers one more time? I was saying Rotten, 55, audience score 65. I don't really know. I don't really know. Tomato meter 63, audience 57. Interesting. Okay. So the audience really didn't like it.

Starting point is 00:20:04 Hey, if you're a Chuckster fan and you go to this, you're like, what the F is this? Because first off, on a poster that I, that I saw, I think just when we were trying to find this, they made it look like Chucky. It doesn't look like Buddy in the poster of Childs Play 2019. so I would feel like I got a little jipped. Like this isn't following this at all. And I wouldn't be a person who prior is going to be reading the news about how Don Mancini and Jennifer Tilly are not involved

Starting point is 00:20:36 unless it was a big news break. I doubt it. That's not how film really works that you're doing your research and like who's in and who's out. Like you would just show up. But the horror community kind of does do that. But I'm with you, the general public does not. And this is a big enough property that it's not just for the horror people.

Starting point is 00:20:52 Exactly. So you would be disappointed. I do think, though, on the flip side of that, though, Tara, like you and I just binged all of these unbelievable A-plus movies and then had to watch this. I think if we had had time between, I think if we had binged all of those and then years later this came out, we would have liked it more.

Starting point is 00:21:11 It's just because we're comparing it back to back with like, I mean, curse of Chucky, cult of Chucky, seat of Chucky, bride of Chucky. They were all like so weird and twisted and wild that then to go to this was like, oh, okay, I almost have to put on a different hat, you know? I agree. It just seemed more amateur, less, less, like, mature in the way that the characters were handled

Starting point is 00:21:33 and the plot. Like, I get it, there was still some effed up stuff, like the guy with his camera and looking at the neighbors, and then obviously the boyfriend sucked balls. But I still, I don't know. I just think there could have been more, and I think we could have maybe gotten to those kills a little bit sooner. there was there's just something a little a little off about it that I wasn't as stoked on this and I can't quite put my finger on it there's a lot of still good points but I think also I didn't like that

Starting point is 00:22:06 he wasn't practical a lot of the time and I did appreciate in all of the other Chuckies that they use a lot of practical effects and there's a lot of times when I was like wait is he practical or is he not, where he waves his hand, I could tell that's CGI. That's all, like, computer-related stuff. And maybe there is some shots in this where he is just the doll. But I didn't get a strong practical juice off it, which I really like that about all the Chucky's, even the later ones, that they were still doing practical,

Starting point is 00:22:38 even though they can clearly, the only time we ever really saw was, sure, they used a CGI in the Chucky point of view of him going up the stairs through the house, That was all animated. That's not practical with a guy on a camera. He would have been struggling. That's fine with me because in that same film, I don't remember the number.

Starting point is 00:22:57 They still used a lot of practical effects. In this one, they used some. I appreciated it. But there was a lot that I was like, I wish Buddy was not as CGIed up. That's seat of Chucky because it wasn't actually Chucky go out of the stairs. It was the kid. Right. That's right.

Starting point is 00:23:13 Yes. Yeah, you're right. I'm with you. Yep. Okay. So any final thoughts on this one? I mean, I liked it. I still had a good time.

Starting point is 00:23:21 I loved the kill. I liked the kills with the drone. That was fun. And I liked, who got his head chopped off? Well, it was the bad guy, but I don't think we saw it. There's some cool kills in here. And I like that. That stuff's fun for me.

Starting point is 00:23:35 Other than that, you know, I had a good time. It wasn't terrible. Yeah, it's so weird. Because like you, I liked this. It just feels like I didn't right now. I know that I did. Yeah, I did. I think I'm with the critics on this one.

Starting point is 00:23:48 I think a 60-something. I know that's not how Rotten Tomatoes works. You know, I know it's just like whether you liked it or didn't. But to me, I think that's a fair score. I agree with that. Absolutely. So we will hopefully be seeing you guys for the series. If you're liking what we're doing over here,

Starting point is 00:24:01 check out what we're doing for Nightmare on Elm Street. Check out what we did for Purge. Yeah. See, that doesn't count. You know, I didn't really try to scare you. We are going to be doing Friday the 13th. People have been asking, are we going to be doing Friday versus Jason? not till we see who the F. Jason is, because we don't know that guy.

Starting point is 00:24:21 We don't know. So we have to go back to. I do not know this man. Yeah. We need to find who this man is. So we have a lot of horroring to do. Yeah, go on that journey with us. Watch the Friday at 13th and go up to the point of Jason with us. And then we'll flip back over to Friday versus Jason. You can go on the whole journey, which will be fun. And also hopefully check us out for the series. And also please be on the lookout for merch stuff. If you want to support us as She Jax, they're doing awesome stuff here for us. with us. We're doing it as a team, but it's really cool that we get to be embraced by you guys and therefore get to do some more stuff with you. So we'll keep you posting on all of that.

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