Given that the killer doll franchise got a makeover from suspense-horror to self-referential splat-com with the surprisingly smart 'Bride Of Chucky', this fifth - and last? - instalment has no new direction to take.
Writer Don Mancini, promoting himself to director, heads for Romania-posing-as-Hollywood where Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), his bride Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) and their anatomically-incorrect offspring Glen or Glenda (Billy Boyd) mingle with the real Tilly, who gamely sends herself up in a barrage of chubby, dim, careerist slut jokes (I'm an Oscar-nominated actress, and now I'm fucking a puppet!').
As horror, it's a worn-out succession of gory, meaningless, hard-to-enjoy deaths, and too much of the running time is given over to puppets arguing with each other. As comedy, only Tilly's breathless, endearing commitment to self-humiliation lifts it into the two-star category.
