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BY PEG ALOI
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Those who have enjoyed the meta-cinematic and Hollywood-insider humor in the previous four films of this giddily gory franchise won’t be disappointed by this first one directed by series creator Don Mancini. It opens with Shithead (voice of Billy Boyd), progeny of Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) and Tiffany (voice of Jennifer Tilly), working for a ventriloquist in Glastonbury, England. Shithead is plagued by dreams of being a killer doll. He escapes to Hollywood (a moving red line across a map explains this) and finds his parents in storage on a sound stage. They’re starring in a "Chucky" film with Jennifer Tilly, whose self-loathing at what her career has been reduced to is scary, funny, and clearly justified. Tilly decides to follow in the footsteps of her arch-nemesis Julia Roberts and use sex to get a plum role as a "hot Virgin Mary" in a film directed by the rapper Redman. Chucky and Tiffany are magically reanimated, and both worry that their androgynous non-violent son (crafted, I believe, to look like a bug-eyed David Bowie in his Aladdin Sane persona) won’t want to be a serial killer. Some fun cameos here, including John Waters as a slick paparazzo. Loads (sorry) of semen imagery and one hilarious masturbation scene, but the main reason not to bring the kids (lots were at the promo I attended) is that the gore is completely over the top. At the Entertainment, Flagship, Holiday, Providence Place 16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas. (87 minutes)
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