“Bride Of Chucky” is the self-aware comedy sequel in the “Child’s Play” series about a killer doll. I remember seeing the original film and this one is not much better or much worse than that. It makes a few jokes here and there with references to “Halloween”, “The Bride Of Frankenstein” and “Hellraiser” but none of it is particularly amusing.

In “Bride Of Chucky”, Jennifer Tilly (“Liar Liar”) stars as Tiffany, the girlfriend of serial killer doll Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif “Dune”), who resurrects Chucky but he then kills her so her soul can be transferred to a doll to be just like him. The two then are on a mission to get back a special amulet in order to both become humans again.

The special effects for the doll characters are very good as they always have been in the franchise. The doll characters themselves aren’t as interesting, sure maybe it is kind-of amusing to see the two bicker like a human character and make love like a human couple but there is nothing here that’ll actually get a laugh out of you. The rest of the characters are really dull as they always are in slasher movies.

The original “Child’s Play” was actually quite funny, much more so than it was scary but this movie goes out of its way to parody slasher movies but it doesn’t do all that much with that concept. By far the best moment in the film is the joke involving “Bride Of Frankenstein” but even that isn’t as impressive as the film should be. If you like the series, you’ll either love or hate this film because it does something different but for the rest of us “Bride Of Chucky” is another boring entry in a boring film series in a deadbeat genre.