CHILD'S PLAY 3 is an oddity in the Chucky franchise. It came out only 1 year after Child's Play 2, yet is set 8 years in the future. So now Andy is a teenager and a dubious one at that. The "actor" chosen to play Teen Andy looks like the typical bland 90s pretty boy from Teen Beat magazine, not an emotionally scarred individual whose been terrorized by a killer doll for half his life. This movie would hold up a lot better if a different actor had been playing the teenaged Andy. It's also jarring that all the other teenagers in this movie are obviously played by young adults, so Andy stands out even more due to that. The romance between Andy and the female cadet DeSilva is creepy as the actress looks several years older than him and way more mature. It's literally watching a woman kissing a boy.
The movie also has so many head-scratching moments. Why did Andy spend the bulk of the movie messing around with Chucky when he could have just killed him? He saw the Commandant holding Chucky then literally acted like he didn't see it. Then later in the movie, the Cadet Four Eyes did the same thing when he saw that Chucky killed the barber. Just ignored it like it didn't happen and failed to tell anyone what he saw. Why were the female cadets allowed to wear their hair long and not bunned up on a MILITARY base? Why did DeSilva get off with just pushups for the insult she made to the jerk Cadet Colonel? She insulted him LOUDLY in front of an entire battalion and that's her punishment? Speaking of said jerk, what's with the fake country accent? Is this some stereotype for gruff military leaders? Why was virtually every character obsessed with this doll? The little kid fails to give it to Andy, the girls just play around with it putting lipstick on it, the cadet bully basically steals it from Andy then gets mad when he thinks Andy took back what was rightfully his anyway. But the kicker was the barber tried to give Chucky a haircut! Aside from the kid, these are basically grown people playing with a doll. Why did Glasses just jump on the grenade killing himself instead of throwing it into the woods? And finally, why exactly was Andy arrested in the end and what happened to the little kid? Did the police think Andy committed all the murders? The thing is that I low-key liked the new setting, but the dubious casting for Andy and all the plot illogic sunk it.
The movie also has so many head-scratching moments. Why did Andy spend the bulk of the movie messing around with Chucky when he could have just killed him? He saw the Commandant holding Chucky then literally acted like he didn't see it. Then later in the movie, the Cadet Four Eyes did the same thing when he saw that Chucky killed the barber. Just ignored it like it didn't happen and failed to tell anyone what he saw. Why were the female cadets allowed to wear their hair long and not bunned up on a MILITARY base? Why did DeSilva get off with just pushups for the insult she made to the jerk Cadet Colonel? She insulted him LOUDLY in front of an entire battalion and that's her punishment? Speaking of said jerk, what's with the fake country accent? Is this some stereotype for gruff military leaders? Why was virtually every character obsessed with this doll? The little kid fails to give it to Andy, the girls just play around with it putting lipstick on it, the cadet bully basically steals it from Andy then gets mad when he thinks Andy took back what was rightfully his anyway. But the kicker was the barber tried to give Chucky a haircut! Aside from the kid, these are basically grown people playing with a doll. Why did Glasses just jump on the grenade killing himself instead of throwing it into the woods? And finally, why exactly was Andy arrested in the end and what happened to the little kid? Did the police think Andy committed all the murders? The thing is that I low-key liked the new setting, but the dubious casting for Andy and all the plot illogic sunk it.