- Directed by: Don Mancini
- Written by: Don Mancini
- Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, John Waters
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKc-mP5xXQY
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
Chucky and Tiffany are back in action with their gender confused child Glen/Glenda, fully embracing humor and silliness in Hollywood with Jennifer Tilly playing herself as well as Tiffany. If you’ve enjoyed the other Chucky movies where they stray from horror to humor, you’ll probably enjoy this one as well.
Spoilery Synopsis
After one of the most ridiculous title sequences ever, a little girl opens a present. It’s a really ugly doll that quickly gets shoved into a toybox and forgotten. Later that night, the doll climbs out of the box and grabs a knife. Mayhem ensues. The doll stabs the father and stabs the mother in the shower, Psycho-like. As the doll looks into the mirror, we see that it’s not Chucky. The little girl, Claudia, taunts the killer.
Glen wakes up; it was a nightmare. He’s actually a dummy in a ventriloquism act. Glen narrates his life and weird nightmares. He’s not really violent at all. He wonders about his own parents; they must have been very good people…
We flash back to a scarred-up Chucky in a cemetery fighting a man in a Santa Claus suit. Tiffany finishes off “Santa,” taunting that he’s not real after all.
No, wait– this is all a movie, and the Chucky prop doesn’t work very well. “Chucky Goes Psycho” is the newest movie about Chucky and Tiffany, two dolls that were found, in real life, at a crime scene. The famous actress Jennifer Tilly is going to be in the film. She complains about not getting any good roles anymore.
Glen watches the two doll props on a TV show and realizes that he’s their son. He’s being abused by his keeper and soon escapes from the show. He makes his way to Hollywood, where they’re making the film.
Jennifer auditions to play the role of the Virgin Mary with the famous director Redman. He likes Julia Roberts for the role instead. Jennifer really hates Julia Roberts. Jennifer plans to get the role, one way or another.
Meanwhile, Glen finds the Chucky and Tiffany doll-props at the movie set and talks to them, not realizing they aren’t real. He reads the words on the medallion they left with him, and lightning happens. Both dolls soon wake up, alive again. They soon all realize they are all family. The animatronics technician shows up and loses his head. Chucky and Tiff make out after the killing, but Glen just pees himself. They debate over whether their child is a boy or a girl; he’s not anatomically correct either way. His name is either Glen or Glenda.
Jennifer Tilly finds the technician’s head and gets lots of press. The three dolls stow away in her limo. Tiff loves the idea that Jennifer is playing her in the movie, but Chucky hates her voice. Glen doesn’t understand why his parents are killers. They say it helps them relax. Chucky likes killing, but Tiff says it’s an addiction, and maybe they should try to quit cold turkey for their child.
Jennifer plans to sleep with Redman, but her secretary, Joan, doesn’t approve and gets fired. As Redman arrives, sneaky reporter Pete Peters stalks around outside. Tiffany has spiked the drinks, but they aren’t in any hurry to drink. Chucky and Tiffany have a whole subplot where they plan to artificially inseminate Jennifer to have a baby for Glen/Glenda to possess and then take over the bodies of Jennifer and Redman themselves
Tiffany confronts Jennifer, and Jennifer’s a little more than shocked. They knock her out and use the turkey baster for insemination. Pete takes photos from outside.
Chucky and Glen go out for a night of fun and run Britney Spears off the road. They follow Pete home to his darkroom and Pete soon finds out the real story. Glen seems to have a natural, if unintentional, talent for murder.
In the morning, Redman and Jennifer wake up with no memory of what they did last night. They remember a lot of screaming and assume it was great sex. Shortly after, she announces that she’s pregnant. Redman says he’s had a vasectomy, so it’s not him. Also, since she’s pregnant, he cuts her from the film he’s making.
Tiffany, who wants to stop murdering, battles with herself over her desire to kill Redman. After a call to the addiction hotline, she gets permission to finish him off. Glenda witnesses the whole thing.
Jennifer’s Voodoo-assisted pregnancy is very fast. The next day, she’s huge. The two evil dolls tie her up to wait for the baby. They all argue again over the child’s sex. Is he a boy or is she a girl? Either way, he doesn’t want to be a killer. Tiff’s OK with that, but Chucky wants his son to be a killer.
Since Redman’s dead, they call Stan, Jennifer’s chauffeur, to receive Chucky’s soul. Joan, the fired secretary, returns and bangs on the door, and Chucky goes to take care of her. Tiff just can’t hold herself back and takes care of things. No, that wasn’t Tiff, that was Glenda, who’s really good at murder and being insane.
Jennifer’s about to give birth. It’s a boy, and it looks totally human. No, wait– there’s more. There’s also a girl. Twins! Tiff thinks they can put Glen in the boy and Glenda into the girl. Due to all the screaming, Chucky blows his top and decides to forget all this Voodoo nonsense and just stay a doll. Tiff wants to live inside Jennifer, which causes a bunch of conflict.
Meanwhile, downstairs, the police break in and start finding bodies, along with Jennifer Tilly tied to the bed. At the hospital, she wants her babies back. Everyone thinks her story is a little crazy. Tiff and Glen show up and she starts the ritual to put herself into the movie star. Chucky breaks in and hits Tiffany in the head with his ax.
Glen, angry at the death of his mother, goes full ninja on Chucky, giving him the ax as well. Chucky loses all four limbs and says “Attaboy, kid!” just before he decapitates Chucky. Jennifer gets up off the floor and consoles Glen.
Five years later, successful actress Jennifer Tilly hears reports from the nanny about Glen, a nice boy, and Glenda, a bad girl. The servant is afraid of her Tiffany doll, and Glenda as well. The maid quits. Jennifer kills her on the spot– she’s really Tiffany. Glen and Glenda are the two babies, and Glen knows that his father really loved him. Glen gets a present in the mail and opens it. Turns out, it’s Chucky’s arm.
Brian’s Commentary
After the previous film, “Bride of Chucky” leaned way more into comedy than horror, this one stretches things even further into pure silliness. The puppets have never looked better, but even they seem to know how silly this has gotten. I love how Jennifer Tilly repeatedly makes fun of herself, and her one hit movie. “God she’s fat!”
“Glen or Glenda” is, of course, a real film about transvestites from 1963. In this film, Glen/Glenda is just a very confused puppet, but in the TV series, takes on a whole Trans/LGBT identity and Chucky’s acceptance of that makes Chucky the most LGBT-friendly of all the horror monsters.
There is a body count, but they’re all just ancillary to the comedic family drama.
You’ll either love it or hate it, there’s very little middle ground here.
Kevin’s Commentary
I was kind of surprised that in the 21 years since it’s been made, I had never seen this one. They do fully embrace the silliness and raunchy humor in this one. I thought it was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed it.