Child's Play Review: 6 Ups & 3 Downs

4. The Campy, Over-The-Top Tone

If some of the trailers seemed to suggest that the film was going to play its premise straight, fear not - the new Child's Play instead finds a firm, blackly comic middle-ground.

It is absolutely a movie that knows what it is and what fans expect from a film in this franchise, and leans into that heightened absurdity exceptionally well for the most part.

Director Klevberg smartly never quite allows things to devolve into an outright, laughable farce, maintaining just enough semblance of "realism" that the carnage has some visceral impact.

But if you're considering this for a laid-back viewing after having a few drinks, it should hit the spot just fine.