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theres a scene in this where a kid jumps on a grenade to save all the other kids and its like that big captain america fakeout moment except it's real and the kid fucking dies
underrated by fans & audiences alike, 'child's play 3: look who's stalking' invites us to 'look' at a devastating multi-layered attack on western values, rebuking the institutional barbarism of american military culture - where nonconforming kids are bullied into imperialist killers - advancing its broad-range capitalist satire into the corporate boardroom ("what are children, after all, but consumer trainees?") to make real the inherent violence of a 1%er high-rise penthouse (in atlanta!), deconstructing the fragile, queerphobic masculinity & transmisogyny of chucky violently…
Well ya know...after the amazingness of part 2 it was pretty inevitable that this one would take a tumble and it does, but it’s still a fun ride. The way Chucky is brought back by a greedy corporation looking to make a buck is actually not that difficult to believe although I’ve never figured out how exactly he manages to mail himself to Andy at the military school or why he needs Andy specifically. Like, he’s stuck in a plastic…
In my review for Child’s Play 2, I talked about how most of these movies are middle of the road slashers; well, this one is probably closer to an offramp to nowhere, with a few saving graces that prevent it from being total roadkill in the breakdown lane (analogies are fun!).
Coming out only nine months after its predecessor (proving that, as a parallel to the Play Pals company deciding to reboot the Good Guy doll toy line, the real…
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