YMMV / Seed of Chucky

• Critical Dissonance: While the film was divisive among critics, many Child's Play fans loathed the greater emphasis on comedy over horror, especially since the film's marketing emphasized the latter. Therefore, Seed is considered one of the weakest films in the series (along with 3 and the reboot, which some consider better).
• Crosses the Line Twice: Chucky masturbating into a cup? Gross. Pete Peters taking photos of him while whispering "Get it, Mini-Me?" Humorous.
• Fridge Horror: Glen and Glenda becoming human requires sacrificing the two innocent newborns and stealing their bodies. In other words, two of Chucky’s children are murdered to provide bodies for another two.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A doll impregnating someone with a turkey baster? Not the only time it's happened.
  • In the Japanese dub, Glen and Glenda are voiced by Soichiro Hoshi, who would do voice work for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
  • Hannah Spearritt is working on a film set as a PA for actors, one of whom includes Jason Flemyng. Fast forward a few years where Hannah would again be working for Flemyng on Primeval.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some fans only watch it for Chucky, Tiffany, Glenda, and Glen's interactions while ignoring Jennifer Tilly playing herself. Others only watch it for Jennifer Tilly playing herself while ignoring the dolls.
• LGBT Fanbase: Has the most LGBT fans of the movies, since the Glen and Glenda plot is about realizing they're genderfluid and their parents reacting to it.
• Love to Hate: John Waters in the film is another of the franchise's Jerkass Hate Sinks, but unlike other examples, his Large Ham performances make him entertaining.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Psychs crosses it when he threatens to kill Glen by setting him on fire if he doesn't toughen up. And that's after the audience learns he locked Glen in a cage for six straight years.
  • Glenda crossed it in her Establishing Character Moment when she killed Joan by burning her to death. What makes it worse was when she reveals how she enjoys her villainy. Even Chucky and Tiffany were shocked after hearing this.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • When Tony Gardner unscrews the back of the Tiffany doll, he finds a bloody spine surrounded by pulsating flesh.
  • Glenda, in contrast to her more kind and gentle "Brother" Glenda is completely insane and murderous, to the point franchise poster nutjob Chucky is really freaked out by her.
• Poor Man's Substitute: It's obvious that composer Pino Donaggio is trying to emulate fellow composer Danny Elfman in his score for this film, except with a more Italian flare with a dash of Full Moon Features composer Richard Band. Granted, he also does appear to incorporate a nice instrumental homage to his previous work on "Sue's Dream" in Carrie (i.e., the musical accompaniment for the Jump Scare of all jump scares), appearing when Tiffany murderously reveals she successfully transferred her soul to Jennifer after all.
• Retroactive Recognition: For non-S Club 7 fans, Hannah Spearitt also in Seed of Chucky before landing the role of Abby in Primeval - which also starred Jason Flemyng.
• So Bad, It's Good: It goes without saying that it's not the favorite among most fans of the series, but there is fun to be had with the preposterous concepts of this raunchy Horror Comedy with admittedly well animated and voiced killer dolls. There's also an offset of fans whose introduction to Chucky's series was watching this and Bride when they were younger, and to those fans Seed is a nostalgic guilty pleasure.
• Special Effects Failure: While the animatronic dolls themselves are good, the moments where we see them walking in full bodies (such as when Chucky charges at Glenn but he jumps and flips in the air above him) the digital composing looks very dodgy. Ditto for the scene in which Glenn runs away from Psychs early on.
• Spiritual Adaptation: With its campy tongue-in-the-cheek morbidity mixed in a cocktail of Gorn, Squick and a moment of female nudity Fan Disservice accompanied by Pino Donaggio's Richard Band-like music score, it can give off a vibe if this entry in the Killer Doll film series was directed by Stuart Gordon instead of the creator of the Killer Doll himself Don Mancini.
• Squick: The titular Chucky producing a semen sample to impregnate Tilly. The unrated cut even features a brief close-up of him masturbating. And Pete Peters comes across this while taking pictures of Tilly and Redman making out—he starts taking pictures of what Chucky is doing.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The animatronic effects continue to improve from the previous film with the development of new filming techniques allowing for the dolls to be much more mobile and expressive than before. Special shout-out goes to the shot of Tiffany's back being pulled off post her resurrection to reveal her pulsating innards.
• The Woobie: Glen was abused by Psychs for most of his life, locked in a cage for six years with the threat of being burned to death if he didn't toughen up. This, and his Serial Killer parents trying to force their ideals onto him, did significant psychological damage. And although he's a decent person, he has a Split Personality with the murderous Glenda and is forced to kill the father he still loves.

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