The film opens with a bang, centered around exhibiting how terrifying this updated version of Buddy would be given the general technological progress and the conceit of the story, juxtaposing the invasive nature of technology against the modern day convenience it grants. We see how much Buddy can do - he can control everything! your drones! your car! His patented quick learning technology only aids in him servicing you! The film is explicit in its satirical placation, yet the narrative in the very next scene sells the film short, making the decision to have Buddy's origin be rooted in a conscious act of sabotage by a disgruntled employee. In doing so this was not some destiny-laced error unforeseen by the technocrat but a calculated act by a disgruntled employee, a odd decision which largely undercuts the film's potential for any deeper themes centered around privacy, the invasive nature of technology, etc. This all occurs in the opening prologue of the film, before the title card, with Child's Play going through the relative motions from there, delivering a more respectable remake than many film's of its ilk, given its respect to the source material, understanding the subversive horror necessary to achieve something truly disturbed - unconditional love and servitude which transgresses into macabre. Has a few memorable horror sequences - particularly a few creative acts of macabre - but the film's narrative trajectory leads itself down a path which aims are more towards spectacle than constrained horror, with a finale which becomes unnecessarily unhinged relative to what up to that point had been, by-and-large, a quiet, creepy horror remake which updated and did the original justice.
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