Child's Play (2019)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Child's Play |
| Original title | Child's Play |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars Klevberg |
| script | Tyler Burton Smith |
| production |
David Katzenberg , Seth Grahame-Smith |
| music | Bear McCreary |
| camera | Brendan Uegama |
| cut |
Tom Elkins , Julia Wong |
| occupation | |
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Child's Play ( English for Children's is) an American horror movie from director Lars Klevberg from the year 2019 . The film is a remake of Don Mancini's Chucky - The Killer Doll from 1988 and a reboot of the previous Chucky film series.
The film opened in American cinemas on June 21, 2019. The German theatrical release took place on July 18, 2019.
action
The international technology group Kaslan is launching the high-tech Buddi doll, which is very popular with children around the world. With the Buddi doll, the company advertises that it has created a revolutionary toy that stands by its owners as a new best friend in all situations. Equipped with AI , Buddi learns from his environment and acts accordingly. In addition, the doll can connect to and control other Kaslan devices. The doll is assembled and programmed in a factory in Vietnam . When a supervisor fires a Vietnamese factory worker without notice, the latter deactivates all safety logs on one of the toys in revenge. The manipulated Buddi doll is packed and prepared for international transport.
In Chicago , the doll ended up in the hands of the saleswoman Karen Barclay after it had been returned to her till due to a supposed technical defect. In order to be able to take the defective doll home with her, the single mother blackmailed her superior. Karen recently moved to town with her 13-year-old son Andy. Since Andy finds it difficult to make friends in the new environment, Karen hopes to cheer him up with the Buddi doll. When Andy activated the high-tech doll, it was named Chucky. Chucky helps Andy make friends with Falyn and Pugg, two other children from the house, but soon becomes violent too. So he strangles the Barclays cat. While Andy and his friends are watching a horror movie, Chucky approaches the group with a kitchen knife, imitating the violence on the screen.
When Andy finds the dead cat, Chucky explains that he killed the animal because it injured the 13-year-old. In addition, Chucky begins to terrorize Karen's new partner Shane, with whom Andy has a bad relationship. After Shane furiously accuses Andy of deliberately using the doll against him, the broken-up Andy implores that Shane should disappear forever. Chucky overhears Andy's pleas and then follows Shane home. It turns out that Shane has a family of his own that is unaware of his affair with Karen. While Shane is hanging down the Christmas lights on the roof of his house, Chucky scares him so much that he falls off the ladder and breaks both legs. Lying on the ground, Shane is hit by a moving motor hoe , which scalps and kills him. The next day, Chucky gives Andy the skinned face of Shane.
While policeman Mike Norris starts an investigation into the course of the accident, Andy, Falyn and Pugg decide to deactivate Chucky and dispose of him with household waste . There the caretaker and hobbyist Gabe finds the popular toy doll and repairs it so that he can sell it on the Internet at a profit. Now fully functional again, Chucky Gabe tortures and murders with a table saw. Chucky ends up in the possession of Omar, another kid from the neighborhood, and continues his series of murders. In the meantime, Andy does not succeed in convincing his mother of Chucky's perpetration. In order to be able to keep an eye on her son, she takes him to her work in the shopping center, where the public presentation of the newly designed Buddi dolls takes place on this day and many visitors can be expected.
Mike also goes to the mall, suspecting Andy of being Shane's killer and trying to arrest him. Before that happens, however, Chucky takes full control of the building. It connects to other Buddi dolls and Kaslan products, controls them and activates the automatic locking system. In doing so, he triggers panic among visitors to the shopping center. Numerous employees and customers are brutally killed by rampaging dolls. Andy and his friends manage to get to the exit in this chaos. However, when Andy realizes that Chucky is holding his mother hostage and is about to kill her, he is forced to turn back. Despite adversity, Andy manages to free his mother from the violence of Chucky. With the help of Karen and Mike, Andy eventually overpowers the doll. While paramedics tend to Karen, Mike, and other survivors of the massacre, Andy and friends destroy Chucky's lifeless body in a nearby back alley.
As a result of the murders in the shopping center, Henry Kaslan, CEO of the Kaslan Group, makes a statement about the programming of the Buddi dolls. The dolls produced so far will be recalled and stored. One of the packaged dolls in the warehouse developed a malfunction - like Chucky's, her eyes glow red.
synchronization
The German synchronization was commissioned by the Think Global Media GmbH in Berlin , after a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Ronald Nitschke .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Chucky | Mark Hamill (voice) | Hans-Georg Panczak |
| Karen Barclay | Aubrey Plaza | Anja Stadlober |
| Andy Barclay | Gabriel Bateman | Ben Hadad |
| Detective Mike Norris | Brian Tyree Henry | Jan-David Rönfeldt |
| Shane | David Lewis | Peter Flechtner |
| Henry Kaslan | Tim Matheson | Frank Röth |
reception
Age rating
In the US, the MPAA gave the film an R rating for vulgar language and depicting bloody violence, which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany the film is FSK 16 .
Reviews
Child's Play received mixed to positive reviews. Based on 182 ratings, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 64% with an average score of 5.8 / 10. By comparison, the film received an average rating of 48% on Metacritic , based on 34 reviews.
"The remake of" Chucky - the killer doll "(1988) brutally combines horror, superficial comedy and extreme violence without paying attention to the time and technology-critical undertones that are inherent in the material."
Web links
- Child's Play in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Child's Play at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Child's Play at Metacritic (English)
- Child's Play in the online film database
- Child's Play in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Child's Play . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 191015 / K).
- ↑ a b Child’s Play (2019) . In: Filmdienst . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Child's Play in the German synchronous index , accessed on August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Child's Play . In: Kids-In-Mind . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Child's Play (2019) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Child's Play (2019): Reviews . In: Metacritic . Retrieved August 3, 2019.