Seed of Chucky
Metascore
46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
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  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    70
    Rudely funny splatter comedy.
  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    67
    You know you're watching some sort of bizarre classic when King of Trash John Waters gets half his face burned off by sulfuric acid in the first act.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Chad Bixby
    60
    Recommended for the toothsome Jennifer Tilly, the manic Billy Boyd, some inventive deaths, some inspired gore, and one frankly hilarious scene involving Tilly and a decapitated corpse.
  4. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    It's all fairly brilliantly twisted, but it seems that series creator Don Mancini has utterly given up on scares -- there's only one decent shock toward the very end.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    58
    By far, the most shocking carnage is Tilly carving up her persona. What a doll.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    50
    Does possess some eccentric moments of high camp humor. But other than that, this low-concept slasher/horror film suffers from creaky direction, a tatty story line, and -- even worse, considering the genre -- a lack of suspense and shocks.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    Actually two movies, one wretched, the other funny. The funny one involves the Jennifer Tilly scenes.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    Horror fans will be appalled by the frivolity of the beheadings, amputations and blunt-force trauma. But when Tilly, complaining about all the good roles going to Julia Roberts, says she could have played Erin Brockovich and done it without the Wonderbra, you know you're into something almost inspired.
  9. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Leah McLaren
    50
    This movie is about the opposite of political correctness. It's about rooting for the bad guy and the black ending, and shouting at the screen whenever you feel like it. If you like that sort of thing, go see it. If you don't, then don't.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    50
    Most of the humor falls flat. One of the film's little joys is John Waters in a small part as a sleazy photographer who ends up having his face melted off with sulfuric acid.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    In the end it's simply another Chucky movie -- whether that's a recommendation or a warning is entirely up to you.
  12. Empire
    Reviewed by: Kim Newman
    40
    As horror, it's a worn-out succession of gory, meaningless, hard-to-enjoy deaths, and too much of the running time is given over to puppets arguing with each other.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    40
    Seed Of Chucky goes even further toward comedy over horror, but the Chucky-as-comic-antihero gag has grown stale.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ben Kenigsberg
    40
    The film mostly shoots blanks; it's less than the sum of its in-jokes.
  15. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    40
    Chintzy-looking gore-bore.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    40
    Simply isn't funny or frightening enough to expand its appeal beyond core fan base.
  17. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    Were there an award for most bizarre and dispiriting comedy-horror hybrid featuring killer dolls, the latest installment in the "Child's Play" series would have it locked up.

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User Score
5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 37 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 7 out of 20
  1. TaylorG.
    7
    The Chucky movies are probably my favorite horror/comedy movies of all time. This one wasn't the greatest out of all of them, but it was still pretty good.… Full Review »
  2. Rox22
    4
    A REALLY poor attempt. Chucky is pretty much my favorite Horror movie villain. Here, he's just a pathetic joke. But, it's not his fault. Just absolutely poor writing from a script spewed out by a dyslexic Downs syndrome patient. You can hear that Brad Dourif was really trying his best with what he was given, but even that wasn't enough. Chucky is perhaps the ONLY saving grace in this movie. Everything and everyone else is just terrible. Okay, to be honest Tiffany did have a few moments and it was funny watching the two murderous dolls have "family" issues. But that wore off fast. Overall: A crap movie that has a few enjoyable moments, but nowhere near enough to save it or even make it average.… Full Review »
  3. roddersj04
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I haven't seen any of the first 3 Chucky films, but fell in love with Bride Of Chucky, because of the introduction of Tiffany, played by the very beautiful Jennifer Tilly. This film, I was expecting it to be a great follow up to that great film. Sadly, it wasn't. Glen's character is, well, I liked that he was simply on a quest to find his parents, and I liked how he tapped into his killer instinct at the end of the film to kill his father, and how he didn't want to kill like his parents, but, here come the bad points. His British accent. I know that he got it from travelling with that **** at the beginning, but it just doesn't seem right. The whole Glen also Glenda also just felt unneeded, like it was something just added at the last minute to give the plot another twist. Him knowing Japanese, and doing the kung fu against Chucky, where did that come from? Maybe he learnt it from TV while in his cage, but come on! The act at the start was just crap. And the pissing! For gods sake, WTF? and how did the opening scene in that house fit in to the story? The film itself, well let me break it down. Chucky was brilliant as usual, especially the Britney Spears scene "Oops, I did it again" and the Shining parody scene. It was great to see his killer instinct unchanged, and him trying to pass it on to his son, but the masturbation scene just felt wrong. I didn't dislike him instantly trying to kill Tiffany, but I loved their character dynamic. Shame it looks like the duo won't be together again. Tiffany, brilliant like in the last film, I especially liked how she was trying to quit killing, but she knew Glen looked like a boy, why bother trying to convince herself he was Glenda? I liked that she got to be human with her children, and that her killer instinct hadn't left. Jennifer Tilly, I felt her character was too sluttish for her own good. Her complete change of character after she'd given birth felt a little tacked on and I wasn't liking her sluttish ways to get ahead with Redman. Speaking of which, he was a pretty useless character. Why bother including him? And the chauffer, he needed to be included more to have felt sympathy for me from his death. Hannah Spearrit's character, I felt a little sympathy for her, having to put up with Jennifer Tilly's sluttyness, and she needed a little more screen time. For all of this, I felt a little dissapointed by this film. It was bad, but it wasn't horrible.… Full Review »
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