It’s kind of weird, but all afternoon I have been reading message board posts about this movie where people argue that it isn’t the worst movie they have ever seen and want to know why so many people are slamming it, but haven’t actually been able to find the reviews they are arguing against.  Sure, I have stumbled upon some people who didn’t like the movie and what to share their opinion with the world, but that is pretty normal and they are not in anyway in the majority.  So, does this movie really get slammed as being one of the worst movies ever made, or are some people over reacting to the normal ‘I didn’t like this movie and am

going to tell the world why’ posts?  Personally I love this movie, though upon recent viewing's have not found it as enjoyable as I once did, though this most likely is a result of watching it too many times and doesn’t really have anything to do with the movie itself.  I first saw Child’s Play 3 when I was in sixth grade.  I was babysitting for a family friend one night in October and once the kids when to bed I flipped on the TV and stumbled upon the opening of this movie, one which kept reminding me of a lifesavers commercial whenever you see the blood spiraling in with the wax in the giant boiling vat (if you’ve seen  the beginning of this film you will know what I’m talking about).  Okay, I say stumbled, but really I knew it was on since I had been seeing previews for all three of them all day long, and even had specific instructions from my mother not to watch it that night while babysitting (which of course was really code for ‘watch it’, right -- after all, this was coming from the same woman who would read us scenes from Dean Koontz and Stephen King while growing up?).  Anyway, I watched the third installment while babysitting and then caught the beginning of the first movie as they did a repeat of the trilogy (back then only three of these movies had been made, which, having seen the direction they took the series in, is the way it should have stayed).  Of course I didn’t get to see much of the first movie since the family came home, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t remember when I actually saw it in its entirety, but do remember being pretty startled by it as well.  

Now, from what I have read, many people state that they didn’t like how old Andy had become in this one and felt that the movie focused too much on Andy and the other characters and not enough on Chucky, and while the

latter might be true, they do focus a lot on the characters in this one (though I’m not sure why this is a problem), I don’t think the movie would have done well if Andy had still been a kid.  Where could they have gone with that?  Another foster home?  A long lost relative that took him in?  A mother that has gotten custody of him back but then once again has to fight against the demonic doll?  I don’t think anyone would have enjoyed those storylines because they would have seemed stale.  Putting Andy and Chucky in a military school though, that opened up a whole knew world, one filled with even more lethal weapons and extreme situations, all of which were used pretty well in my opinion.   

Of course, the first Child’s Play movie is still my favorite and the one I would direct people too who have never before ventured into this series, but when talking sequels I have to stay that Child’s Play 3 is better than most and deserves recognition for that.  What they did to Chucky in later movies in unforgivable, and who the hell knows what will happen in the Child’s Play Remake, but these first three movies are pretty good, a real testament to the golden age of horror.  

NOTE: Speaking of the remake, I really hope they don’t CGI Chucky.  I wrote about this when talking about the remake a few months ago, but want to say it again, a CGI Chucky will probably get more laughs than screams and will do to Chucky what the new Star Wars movies did to Yoda -- make him look like a cartoon.