Metacritic reviews

Child’s Play bubbles with entertaining bad taste.

If your humour skews towards the sick and twisted, then this box-fresh Child’s Play will give you one almighty kick.

Child’s Play is pure entertaining fun for the horror fan, but not much else. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, nor does it offer much depth, particularly with its characters. While the cast is amiable enough, they’re mostly surface-level archetypes.

Child's Play is a passable but plain remake that's saved by a blisteringly bonkers third act.

The movie’s biggest strength is its balance between mordant humor and psychological fear.

For those of us old enough to have been terrorised the first time round, it delivers a nasty-but-nice-enough childhood flashback.

Your enjoyment of Child's Play will depend on if "Chucky 2.0" is funny enough for your horror comedy tastes, because without investment in Kaslan's "Buddi," there's not much to appreciate beyond a few gnarly slasher deaths.

This is the new normal for horror movies: The screenplays have to seem hipper than the premise they represent, which puts “Child’s Play” in the weird position of pointing out and poking fun at all the ways it fails to make sense.

Stem to stern, this 88-minute slasher runs like the clockwork bit of machinery it is, and that baseline competence effectively leeches it of personality.

In trying to build a smarter Chucky, the filmmakers have assembled something unfathomably dumb.