‘Seed of Chucky’ cool at times, mostly muddled mess

You may be asking yourself, “Hey, where can I see an ex-ventriloquist’s dummy with an effete British accent struggle with his sexual identity; the Marquis du Bad Taste John Waters have his face burnt off with sulfuric acid; and a demonically possessed female doll in a push-up bra use a turkey baster to artificially inseminate Jennifer Tilly?”

I feel your pain, Dear Reader. I too, have asked the same question many, many times. And now, I have the answer — and it isn’t pretty: “Seed of Chucky.”

“Seed of Chucky” is so messed up on so many levels that I don’t know where to begin. It’s not the best of the five “Child’s Play” movies, but it doesn’t totally stink, either. The problem is that creator/writer/director Don Mancini has tried to make this a horror/comedy in the same vein as “Scream 2.” Unfortunately, the result is not enough slashy-slashy/too much limpy-limpy jokes about Hollywood, so you’re stuck with a movie that has a few really cool and entertaining scenes, but when you string all the parts together, the whole is a muddled mess.

Jennifer Tilly stars as a campy version of her real-life self. She’s starring in a horror movie about Chucky and his doll bride, Tiffany, while also trying to seduce former gangsta rapper Redman into casting her as the Virgin Mary in his upcoming biblical epic.

Meanwhile, a ventriloquist’s dummy who is actually alive discovers that his parents are Chucky and Tiffany. He uses a magical amulet to bring them back to life, with Chucky wanting to go on a killing spree, while Tiffany has plans to use the amulet to transfer her and Chucky’s souls into the bodies of Jennifer Tilly and Redman. To accommodate the soul of their ventriloquist-dummy child (who isn’t sure if he’s a boy or a girl), Tiffany impregnates Jennifer Tilly with The Seed of Chucky.

Now, you have to trust me on this: My description of the plot is more entertaining than the movie itself, which gets kind of slow and boring in spots. Unless you’re a die-hard Chucky fan, see “Seed of Chucky” as a matinee, or better yet, a rental.

GRADE: C+