History Film / ChildsPlay2

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Despite the bright (if somewhat eerie) look of the film, it's actually an unkind world that not even Andy is safe from other then Chucky (a toy company run by cold-hearted {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s including one SmugSnake [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]], an elementary school where it's implied {{Sadist Teacher}}s are authorized to inflict [[WouldHurtAChild physical and emotional child abuse]] on their students, and foster parents who, [[NotSoAboveItAll despite their appearances to be seemingly ideal-looking and what model families should look like]], [[SupernaturalProofFather naturally disbelieve that a killer doll is on the loose out to get a child]] and can be vindictively judgmental if a child is a HeroWithBadPublicity and can easily deduce kids can be murderers ranging from an ObstructiveBureaucrat {{Jerkass}} foster father to a mother who starts out as caring and kind towards the child, [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes but]] [[NotSoAboveItAll th]][[BitchInSheepsClothing en]] TookALevelInJerkass towards the kid [[spoiler: after seeing her husband dead and irrationally jumped to a conclusion that the child killed him somehow]] just because of his [[HeroWithBadPublicity prior reputation]]).

* InsaneTrollLogic: In the theatrical cut only, based on one's interpretation, the reason Phil considers taking 8-year-old Andy back to the orphanage is probably because he believed Andy could have committed the murders from the first film Grace told him about and his recommendations to his wife to send him back was out of fear for his and his wife's lives. [[spoiler:When he is killed, he's wife immediately accused Andy of killing him, most likely basing on what her husband told her about Andy possibly being the killer.]]

Karen Barclay's story about a killer doll resulted in her being taken away for "psychological evaluation". The 8-year-old Andy has been placed in the [[FosterKid Foster Care System]]. He is placed in the care of Phil and Joanne Simpson (CultClassic veterans Gerrit Graham and Creator/JennyAgutter). But Charles Lee Ray's doll host has been rebuilt and reanimated and he is still obsessed with the boy. He soon locates Andy and the incidents start again. Unfortunately the Simpsons suspect fostered teen Kyle (Christine Elise) as the culprit. Now Andy and Kyle have to face the killer with no outside help.

Karen Baclay's story about a killer doll resulted in her being taken away for "psychological evaluation". The 8-year-old Andy has been placed in the [[FosterKid Foster Care System]]. He is placed in the care of Phil and Joanne Simpson (CultClassic veterans Gerrit Graham and Creator/JennyAgutter). But Charles Lee Ray's doll host has been rebuilt and reanimated and he is still obsessed with the boy. He soon locates Andy and the incidents start again. Unfortunately the Simpsons suspect fostered teen Kyle (Christine Elise) as the culprit. Now Andy and Kyle have to face the killer with no outside help.

The second film of the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play]]'' [[Film/ChildPlay series]]. B

The second film does not feature Karen Barclay, though the character survived the previous film. But her story about a killer doll resulted in her being taken away for "psychological evaluation". The 8-year-old Andy has been placed in the [[FosterKid Foster Care System]]. He is placed in the care of Phil and Joanne Simpson (CultClassic veterans Gerrit Graham and Creator/JennyAgutter). But Charles Lee Ray's doll host has been rebuilt and reanimated and he is still obsessed with the boy. He soon locates Andy and the incidents start again. Unfortunately the Simpsons suspect fostered teen Kyle (Christine Elise) as the culprit. Now Andy and Kyle have to face the killer with no outside help.

* BittersweetEnding: At the end, [[spoiler:Chucky is dead yet again, but Andy and Kyle are left homeless after Chucky had basically killed off Andy and Kyle's foster family.]]

* LighterAndSofter: The television cut is this to the film's theatrical cut, due to it showing life for Andy is not much a CrapsackWorld that theatrical version depicts instead, including more insight between him and social workers that the social workers are genuinely caring and kind and [[HiddenDepths more insight]] on the Simpsons (which nearly makes them {{Decoy Protagonist}}s in contrast to the [[DemotedToExtra non-vital roles]] they had in the theatrical cut) that shows that Phil is in fact a JerkWithAHeartOfGold then a straight {{Jerkass}} in the theatrical cut and [[spoiler: and less of an AssholeVictim when he is killed]], while explaining the personal issues the Simpsons are going through as a result of their fostering duties. However, conversely it makes Mattson [[spoiler: an AssholeVictim when it reveals him to be [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with a woman named Gabriella]]]], something cut out in theatrical cut.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[SmugSnake Matt]][[CorruptCorporateExecutive son]] ([[YourCheatingHeart especially and more so]] in the television cut), [[SadistTeacher the outright abusive Miss Kettlewell]], Andy's {{Jerkass}} ObstructiveBureaucrat foster father Phil (except or subverted in the TV cut) and Andy's TookALevelInJerkass [[NotSoAboveItAll foster mother Joanne]]]].

* {{Schoolmarm}}: The SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell's physical appearance, her strict (though it's more an extreme take to point of child abuse) approach and her chalkboard classroom fits the stereotype very well.

%%* SadistTeacher: Mrs. Kettlewell.

** Joanne [[JerkassWoobie grief-strickenly starts]] [[TookALevelInJerkass to become this]] [[spoiler: after her husband is killed and she falsely accused Andy as well as vindictively spurning Kyle's attempt to reason with her due to her newfound IrrationalHatred of burdening foster children, but not long after, [[AssholeVictim she gets hers]]]].

** Phil and Miss Kettlewell seem to be this.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart Mattson]], [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]], Andy's {{Jerkass}} ObstructiveBureaucrat foster father Phil (except or subverted in the TV cut) and Andy's TookALevelInJerkass [[NotSoAboveItAll foster mother Joanne]]]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: In a way, despite having slightly more humor then the first film, it shows the death scenes to be uncomfortable to watch (including more bloody and violence-inflicting closeups), Chucky's RasputinianDeath to be more BloodierAndGorier and Chucky dropping his FauxAffablyEvil facade and acts more mean-spirited towards Andy then the first film that at the climax [[spoiler: when he realized it's too late to BodySurf into Andy, he tries to kill 8-year-old Andy]], plus the [[AwesomeMusic terrorizing and brooding orchestral music score]] that crosses between a 70's horror Music/BernardHerrmann, Marco Beltrami's ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' (which the first film was released six years later [[OlderThanTheyThink after this film]]) and a DarkerAndEdgier Music/DannyElfman (in contrast to Joe Renzetti's UnintentionalPeriodPiece 80's electronic score of the first film) by [[RetroactiveRecognition then-unknown]] [[Film/SinCity Graeme]] [[Series/{{Gotham}} Revell]] (with help from a conductor who happened to be Elfman's frequent collaborator in his early years, the late great [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Shirley]] [[Film/FinalDestination Walker]]) further adds up the intense, creepy and scary mood.

** Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into aa ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In a way, despite having slightly more humor then the first film, it shows the death scenes to be uncomfortable to watch and Chucky's RasputinianDeath to be more BloodierAndGorier, plus the [[AwesomeMusic terrorizing and brooding orchestral music score]] that crosses between a 70's horror Music/BernardHerrmann, Marco Beltrami's ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' (which the first film was released six years later [[OlderThanTheyThink after this film]]) and a DarkerAndEdgier Music/DannyElfman (in contrast to Joe Renzetti's UnintentionalPeriodPiece 80's electronic score of the first film) by [[RetroactiveRecognition then-unknown]] [[Film/SinCity Graeme]] [[Series/{{Gotham}} Revell]] (with help from a conductor who happened to be Elfman's frequent collaborator in his early years, the late great [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Shirley]] [[Film/FinalDestination Walker]]) further adds up the intense, creepy and scary mood.

** Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into an ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.

** Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be {{Sir Swears A Lot}}s (or go into an ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.

** Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can {{Sir Swears A Lot}}s (or go into an ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.

** Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seeming no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can {{Sir Swears A Lot}}s (or go into an ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite having the stereotypically ideal appearance of a model family (such as [[StayInTheKitchen a mother and housewife who cooks and clean]], having an office-worker for a husband as well as having well-supplying huge house fit for a general family (which consists of two-stories and a basement) and a family station wagon), the Simpsons are character-wise flawed in a way (Phil is a {{Jerkass}} ObstructiveBureaucrat, while Joanne, while initially appearing to be more compassionate and caring then Phil, is internally [[StepfordSmiler uptight and insecure]] and have TookALevelInJerkass towards Andy [[spoiler: after thinking Andy killed Phil, prompting her to snap at Andy throwing him out of her house like trash]]). Also see CrapsaccharineWorld above.

* DecoyProtagonist: Joanne (thanks to Creator/JennyAgutter's second billing), but only in the television cut due to more scenes the involves more insight to her and Phil. Phil is a {{Deuteragonist}} example, but like Joanne, only in the television cut. [[spoiler: When they are killed, CharacterFocus goes to either Kyle or back to Andy]].

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite having the stereotypically ideal appearance of a model family (such as [[StayInTheKitchen a mother and housewife who cooks and clean]], having an office-worker for a husband as well as having well-supplying huge house fit for a general family (which consists of two-stories and a basement) and a family station wagon), the Simpsons are character-wise flawed in a way (Phil is a {{Jerkass}} ObstructiveBureaucrat, while Joanne, while initially appearing to be more compassionate and bring then Phil, is internally [[StepfordSmiler uptight and insecure]] and have TookALevelInJerkass towards Andy [[spoiler: after thinking Andy killed Phil, prompting her to snap at Andy throwing him out of her house like trash]]). Also see CrapsaccharineWorld above.

* DecoyProtagonist: Joanne (thanks to Creator/JennyAgutter's second billing), but only in the television cut due to more scenes the involves more insight to her and Phil. Phil is a Deuteragonist example, but like Joanne, only in the television cut. [[spoiler: When they are killed, CharacterFocus goes to either Kyle or back to Andy]].

* AssholeVictim: [[YourCheatingHeart Mattson]], [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]], Andy's {{Jerkass}} ObstructiveBureaucrat foster father Phil and Andy's TookALevelInJerkass foster mother Joanne.

* DecoyProtagonist: Joanne (thanks to Creator/JennyAgutter's second billing), but only in the television cut.

* LighterAndSofter: The television cut is this to the film's theatrical cut, due to it showing life for Andy is not much a CrapsackWorld that theatrical version depicts instead, including more insight between him and social workers that the social workers are genuinely caring and kind and [[HiddenDepths more insight]] on the Simpsons (which nearly makes them {{Decoy Protagonist}}s in contrast to the [[DemotedToExtra non-vital roles]] they had in the theatrical cut) that shows that Phil is in fact a JerkWithAHeartOfGold then a straight {{Jerkass}} in the theatrical cut, while explaining the personal issues the Simpsons are going through as a result of their fostering duties. However, conversely it makes Mattson [[spoiler: an AssholeVictim when it reveals him to be [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with a woman named Gabriella]]]], something cut out in theatrical cut.