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I'll give my rating up front but still give my thoughts below, overall I'd give a 7 out of 10. That being said. I liked it. But I didn't like it as well. This movie has left me conflicted. I'll start with the things I did like about the movie, the cast first and foremost was wonderful, and I love Mark Hamill so much, and I liked the premise itself. The scores were nice and the world felt a bit more expanded from beyond the first batch of characters in the original movie. There were some very nice shots too and some subtle dark humor sprinkled in there. But this is not a Child's Play movie as we know them to be. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it is where my conflicting feelings started. I feel a bit disingenuous calling this a Child's Play movie because the truth is, any robot could have been switched out and while it would have been compared to Chucky at some point because they're both dolls, they would have had clear differences that let this movie stand on it's own without too much comparison. This Chucky was an innocent AI looking to please his best friend that became corrupted two weeks later. The premise is good I'm not disputing that. But this movie is so different from the original in that point calling this a Child's Play movie feels a little like a lie. I liked this movie, I won't like, I did. But it doesn't feel like a remake. It feels like if someone made a movie about a corrupted robot doll and someone at the studio decided to edit it to be about Chuky in a blatant cash-grab to suck up some money from the Child's Play series which will be continuing in TV form in 2020 on syfy still as cuss filled and gore filled as always. None of the original writers were invited to even be a part of it, simply to have their name put on after the fact after no contributions. And the original voice of Chucky himself declined the offer to play him again with this team. My problem isn't with the movie itself so much as what the movie is selling itself to be. It's not a Child's Play movie. It's a movie painted to look like one. A good movie none the less, but not a Child's Play movie.