YMMV / Bride of Chucky

• Awesome Music: Bride's soundtrack is often praised as a "greatest hits" collection of the 80's and late 90's. In particular:
  • Rob Zombie's "Living Dead Girl," a banger in its own right that also establishes Tiffany's character.
  • Similarly there's Blondie's "Call Me," which is used during Tiff's makeover.
• Broken Base: This film divided the fandom between the largely straight-faced original trilogy and the Denser and Wackier direction this film and Seed would follow. A third group likes the former, but believes that the change in tone was necessary in a post-Scream world, especially after Child's Play 3 underperformed.
• Evil Is Cool: Chucky exhibits this appeal a lot more than in previous films, especially because of his stitched makeover.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans of the original trilogy don't consider this film nor Seed canon.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • It makes sense for Michael Myers' mask to be in an evidence locker: this film and H20 were released in the same year, and he was (supposedly) decapitated after he was carted off.
  • Chucky alludes to Pinhead when looking at Warren's nail-filled head. Considering who Chucky is and the number of times he died, he had spend his downtime somewhere.
• Fridge Horror: Andy no doubt heard about the events of this film on the news, especially how Charles Lee Ray's fingerprints were found at the crime scenes. Imagine how he felt, knowing that his old nemesis had come back from the dead yet again. No wonder he was so Crazy-Prepared at the end of Curse.
  • When Jesse picked the dolls up from Tiffany's trailer, he would have discovered her body in the bathtub if he had investigated any further.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Tiffany dies, The Bride of Frankenstein is on the TV. Specifically, it's the scene where the Bride rejects her mate. Becomes very harsh in Seed of Chucky when Tiffany and her child have to kill Chucky.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • John Ritter plays a comically overprotective, Jerkass uncle. It makes his eventual, and sadly, final role in 8 Simple Rules look tame by comparison.
  • Director Ronnie Yu would later work with John Ritter's son, Jason, on Freddy vs. Jason, a film that is foreshadowed here given Freddy's glove and a hockey mask appearing in the evidence locker room.
  • Michael Myers' mask from Halloween makes an appearance in this film along with a song by Rob Zombie during the opening credits, which is interesting as Brad Dourif, the voice of Chucky, would later play Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Zombie's remake Halloween (2007) and its sequel Halloween II (2009).
  • When explaining to Jesse and Jade their plans after they abduct them, Chucky says that it's complicated and that if it were a movie, "it would take about three or four sequels to do it justice". This film has had three direct sequels and a reboot.
  • The film's poster spoofs Scream 2. Brad Dourif, this film's killer, would later costar with Timothy Olyphant, Scream 2's killer, in Deadwood. Also, while Chucky's nemesis and original owner was Andy Barclay, the other killer Laurie Metcalf had played a mother who also has child named Andy whose toys also come to life.
  • When Chucky tells Tiffany that getting the Heart of Damballa isn't that simple since they're dolls, sarcastically saying, "I'll steer and you can work the pedals." That's exactly what Chucky and Glen do in follow-up Seed of Chucky, ramming Britney Spears off the road in the process.
  • In the climax, Chucky dares Jade to shoot him, boasting that "I'll be back! I ALWAYS COME BACK!!" The humor is enhanced by the fact that both Chucky and Afton are human serial killers that turned themselves into Animate Inanimate Objects of Show Within a Show children's entertainment brands.
• Jerkass Woobie: Tiffany, while a Serial Killer just like her husband, genuinely cares for him and doesn't realize she's in a toxic relationship until it's too late.
• The Scrappy: You'll hardly find someone who considers Jesse and Jade their favorite human protagonists of the series, let alone liking them to begin with. They're Vanilla Protagonists at best, and a bland couple who spews clichéd and saccarine romantic talk to each other yet are quick to suspect the other of murder at worst. Even though Bride is intentionally turning Chucky into a Villain Protagonist, Jesse and Jade have had many fans genuinely Rooting for the Empire given how bland and unconvincing they are as a couple.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The tarantula that falls on Damien's face has a rather noticeable white line surrounding it.
  • When David ends up being struck by a truck, the "body parts" come flying off from another direction a split-second before he gets hit. It's as if they were into the scene and superimposed to look like he just exploded on impact.
  • Tiffany's plate of cookies tilts over at one point, but the cookies don't fall off.
  • The overhead views during Chucky and Tiffany's fight. It's clear that two little people are taking place of the dolls.
• Spiritual Adaptation: This film can be considered a Scream film featuring killer dolls, due to its Postmodernism horror film Shout-Out humor and the poster advertising the fourth installment parodying the Scream 2 poster.
• Squick: Chucky and Tiffany's sex scene. While also hilarious and only portrayed via silhouette, the very idea of two serial killer dolls having sex is enough to make anyone gag.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Divisive as this film is, critics gave it better reviews than 3 and even 2. Many of them found the comedy elements to be an improvement, as well as the parallels with Bride of Frankenstein.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: This entry marks the point where the animatronic work on Chucky gets a major upgrade, especially in the lip-syncing department. While the previous films were always fairly obvious when switching from the plain Good Guy doll to a talking one, here Chucky and Tiffany's faces remain fluidly consistent regardless of whether or not they're pantomiming inanimacy.