Seed of Chucky (2004)

Dir: Don Mancini

A joke taken too far can be one of the most torturous things to have to endure, as proven with "Seed of Chucky", the fifth "Child's Play" film. Watching it makes you feel like checking into a Slovakian hostel just to get some relief from the agony. In this, Chucky and Tiffany, the killer dolls, find their long-lost androgyne child (named Glen/Glenda - geddit?) and head to Hollywood where a film is being made about them. This provides ample excuse for almost non-stop awkward self-reference and a total lack of coherent plot. In fact, the script is so appalling that even at an ultra-lean 82 minutes (which includes a prolonged end credits sequence where all the 'highlights' of the movie get revisited), it draaaaaaags and feels like an epic. There are about five 'false endings' thrown in as further padding and, if that's not still bad enough for you to avoid this movie at all costs, just ask me about calibre of humour (ie: Chucky blowing up Britney Spears and giggling "Oops, I did it again!" to himself). With CGI dolls, CGI gore and (God save us all) CGI sets for some of the scenes, the movie plays like a cross between "Corpse Bride", "New Nightmare" and "Scream 3", which is to say TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE!