History Film / ChildsPlay2019

''Child's Play'', also known as ''Child's Play 2019'' is a reboot of the slasher series ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' with a more modern-day take. It was announced back in July 2018 and was released the following year in June 2019 by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, due to them still having the rights and concept to the original film.

* AdaptationDeviation: The company that created the Chucky doll was changed from a toy company (Play Pals Toys in the original films) to a multinational MegaCorp (Kaslan).

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chucky is regularly kind, well behaved, resourceful and even accommodating to others. Until someone mistreats Andy [[spoiler:or pretends to be his "best friend" over him]].

* BullyingADragon: Shane's abusive treatment of Andy [[spoiler:draws Chucky's wrath]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Andy shows Chucky that knives can be used for cutting, which Andy used on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Chucky takes immediate interest in the knife and happily mimics stabbing.
** Karen at one point puts a ribbon around her neck, jokingly as if she was gonna hang herself at Andy's reaction towards Chucky. [[spoiler: Guess how Chucky tries to kill her.]]

** [[spoiler:During the climax Chucky uses playback of Karen telling Shane that Andy is "different" to call Andy broken like him, even talking to him directly through his hearing aid to do it]].

* NeverMyFault: When Karen calls Shane out for talking down on Andy, Shane tells her it's her problem, not his.

* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler: After Chucky kills Doreen for calling Andy her new best friend, [[AngryBlackMan Mike breaks down into anger]] and works to avenge his fallen mother (though he initially believes it was Andy). Ultimately in the climax he shoots Chucky down]].

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Karen snarks she "had a very productive sweet sixteen" when a coworker expresses surprise she has a kid. Justified in that Aubrey Plaza looks considerably younger than her actual age, to the point Pugg mistakes her for Andy's sister.

* TheLeader: While Andy is TheHero and the one who knows most about Chucky, Falyn tends to be this among the group that lives in Andy's apartment block. She keeps it together when Andy is freaking out over finding [[spoiler:Shane's skinned face]] enough to know they need to get rid of the evidence (Pugg, by contrast, throws up in a bin) - and when Andy freezes when they're deactivating Chucky, she steps in to rip out his power core. Later, she's the first to realise that Andy may not be losing it claiming [[spoiler:Omar's Buddi Chode is actually Chucky]], uses Omar's phone to prove it after threatening him into submission, and leads the others to Zed-Mart in order to get him away from Chucky. Even during the carnage Chucky unleashes there she's cool under pressure, slapping a panicking Pugg back to reality and saving Andy from a bear-model Buddi 2.

[[caption-width-right:350:Wanna play?]]

''Child's Play'' is a reboot of the slasher series ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' with a more modern-day take. It was announced back in July 2018 by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer due to them still having the rights and concept to the original film. The film is to be played alongside an eight-episode television series but it will not involve Don Mancini and Brad Dourif, the voice of Chucky, with the latter being replaced by Creator/MarkHamill. The movie also stars Gabriel Bateman as Andy, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen and Creator/BrianTyreeHenry as Detective Mike.

** A poster of ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' is visible on Andy's bedroom walls.

* AdaptationDeviation: The company that created the Chucky doll was changed from a toy company (Good Guy Dolls in the original films) to a multinational MegaCorp (Kaslan).

* BastardBoyfriend: Karen's boyfriend Shane, who is also a GenderFlip WickedStepmother AbusiveDad towards Andy. [[spoiler:And is also [[YourCheatingHeart married with kids]].]]

* CompositeCharacter: It seems Shane is a combination of several past AssholeVictim characters in the original films such as [[Film/ChildsPlay2 Mattson]] and [[Film/CurseOfChucky Barb]], who both [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on their families]] (Mattson in the television ReCut only though) and [[Film/ChildsPlay2 Phil Simpson]], who was a father figure who seemingly treats Andy poorly.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** If Shane wasn't already enough of a scumbag towards Andy, we later find out that he already has a wife and kids, so he's stringing Karen along, as well. Which makes his fate at the hands of Chucky all the more satisfying. When told by the police, Karen was more upset with the fact that she was Shane's affair than his death.
** Karen also mentions that her supervisor Wes is cheating on his wife, and uses that against him as blackmail to take a Buddi doll home for free (the one that becomes Chucky).

** At the start of the climax, Andy says "Alright Chucky, you wanna play?". Similar to Chucky's line "Hi I'm Chucky, wanna play?" in the original film.
* NeverMyFault: When Karen calls Shane out for talking down on Andy, Shane tells her it's her problem not his.
* NeverTrustATriler: The second trailer uses the shot of Andy and his friends wielding weapons to imply that they end up fighting Chucky themselves. In the actual context of the scene, they use the weapons to [[spoiler:destroy Chucky's remains after he's already been killed]].

* LighterAndSofter: Then the original film and the sequels that follow. The setting itself is far less of an unrepentant CrapsackWorld and a WorldOfJerkass unlike the original continuity, one of Chucky's non-{{Jerkass}} victims Doreen Norris is likable enough for the audience to actually sympathize when she's killed, TheBully here manages to survive the film and become a better person, '''Chucky''' of all characters undergoes an AdaptationalNiceGuy makeover, and the film even ends on a franchise first: a mostly definitively happy conclusion for the protagonists that makes that makes it crystal clear Andy managed to clear his name of Chucky's atrocities, unlike the original films' Andy facing a bleakly ambiguous fate at the end of each installment.

* LighterAndSofter: Then the original film and the sequels that follow, the setting itself is less of a CrapsackWorld and a WorldOfJerkass unlike the original continuity, one of Chucky's non-{{Jerkass}} victims Doreen Norris being someone who's not inoffensive and really likable for the audience to actually sympathize when she's killed, TheBully here manages to survive the film and become a better person, Chucky undergoes an AdaptationalNiceGuy makeover and the film ends on a happy note for the protagonist that makes that makes it crystal clear Andy manages to clear his name of Chucky's murders unlike the original films' Andy facing a bleakly ambiguous fate at the end of each installment.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: None of the deaths are pretty to say the least, but [[spoiler:Shane's is probably the worst, not only getting both of his legs broken but also [[FacialHorror getting his face mutilated by a rototiller]]]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Since this version of Chucky is an AI who can connect to other devices via the Cloud, he's able to develop a sort of omnipresence once he has the Kaslan products under his control. This allows him to manipulate smart cars and [[spoiler:take over an entire store]] simply by lifting a finger.

* LighterAndSofter: Then the original film and the sequels that follow, the setting itself is less of a CrapsackWorld and a WorldOfJerkass unlike the original continuity, TheBully here manages to survive the film and become a better person, Chucky undergoes an AdaptationalNiceGuy makeover and the film ends on a happy note for the protagonist that makes that makes it crystal clear Andy manages to clear his name of Chucky's murders unlike the original films' Andy facing a bleakly ambiguous fate at the end of each installment.

* MommasBoy: Mike Norris, whose mother makes him frequent her apartment and have dinner with her weekly.

** Andy and Shane's 2 daughters are both so infatuated with their smartphones to the point they disregard making friends with other people and become less aware of their surroundings in real life. This could serve as a satire of today's children in the 21st century becoming so absorbed into technology they are shut off from the real world.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Doreen and Mike Norris respectively. Mike was a dead-serious police detective without a sense of humor, while Doreen embarrassed Mike in front of Andy for never buying her a present like Andy "did".

** Chien, the sloppy day-dreaming factory worker at that Vienamese sweatshop where they make the Buddi dolls. For simply zoning out he gets slapped and fired, which angers him into tampering with his last Buddi doll.

** Even if he was just getting even with his asshole boss, the factory worker unwittingly let loose a killer into Andy's life.

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Gabe ends up getting killed by being split in half by a saw Chucky turned on, starting with his testicles.]]

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Gabe ends up getting killed by being split in half by a saw Chucky turned on, staring with his testicles.]]

* AdultsAreUseless: An interesting case; while Andy, Falyn and Pugg are the main ones dealing with Chucky's rampages, for the most part they don't actually tell Karen or Mike about it. While Karen in particular doesn't believe Andy later on, it's more due to her not having much information to go on to support Andy's claims than arbitrary skepticism (and because Karen works full-time at a toy store, she's hardly available to Andy). Mike initially believed Andy was the killer.

* AdultFear: The film may lean towards the fantastical, but the scene where Karen comes home to Andy apparently having a nervous breakdown (actually inspired by Chucky) and smashing up the place with a baseball bat - right after finding out he's stolen another kid's phone - is unnerving to say the least.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:During the climax Chucky uses playback of Karen telling Shane that Andy is "different" to call Andy broken like him, even talking to him directly through his hearing aid to do it]].

* TheLeader: While Andy is TheHero and the one who knows most about Chucky, Falyn tends to be this among the group that lives in Andy's apartment block. She keeps it together when Andy is freaking out over finding [[spoiler:Shane's skinned face]] enough to know they need to get rid of the evidence (Pugg, by contrast, throws up in a bin). Later, she's the first to realise that Andy may not be losing it claiming [[spoiler:Omar's Buddi Chode is actually Chucky]], uses Omar's phone to prove it after threatening him into submission, and leads the others to Zed-Mart in order to get him away from Chucky. Even during the carnage Chucky unleashes there she's cool under pressure, slapping a panicking Pugg back to reality and saving Andy from a bear-model Buddi 2.

* {{Expy}}: Omar seems to be one of Tyler from ''Film/ChildsPlay3'', as both are African-American child acquaintances of Andy who both end up in possession of Chucky and initially refused to listen to Andy about Chucky's true nature out of thinking he's jealous. Both characters don't realize the truth until the climax and team up with Andy to stop Chucky. That aspect of Omar wearing a military camouflage-colored vest in his appearances references ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' being the BootCampEpisode of the series and Tyler himself being a military school student.

** Andy and his friends watch ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'', specifically a scene where Leatherface is handling one of his flesh faces. [[spoiler:Chucky later gives Andy a melon with Shane's skinned face as a gift.]]

** When Andy goes to [[spoiler: confront Chucky and rescue his mom,]] he sees a toy cop car that voices the line [[Film/RoboCop1987 "dead or alive, you're coming with me."]], which also doubles as a nod to the fact Creator/OrionPictures distributed ''[=RoboCop=]'' as well.

* {{Slimeball}}: Apartment landlord BasementDweller Gabe is an [[FatBastard overweight]], [[PermaStubble unshaven]] [[AllMenArePerverts sex-offender]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Andy mouths off that he wants Shane out of his life, Chucky takes that as his cue to not only brutally kill him with a lawnmower, but leave Andy the "gift" of [[spoiler:his skinned face stretched over a watermelon]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: None of the deaths are pretty to say the least, but [[spoiler:Shane's is probably the worst, not only getting both of his legs broken but also [[FacialHorror getting his face mutilated by a lawn mower]]]].