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The pod people are back! Aliens take over human bodies and souls in this hard-hitting remake of the classic tale starring Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar and Forest Whitaker. Year: 1993 Director: Abel Ferrara Starring:Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker ... Read more

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Two out of three ain't bad...
The Least Successful of the Body Snatcher Movies..., for a reason, the movie was so slow that I fell sleep the first time I watched it! I'm a big fan of Jack Finney's book "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." (1954). The first two movies (1956 & 1978) were great because in their own way, each faithfully depicted the atmosphere of total dispair found in the book. This installment didn't adhere very well to the mood or the original plot, at the same time it didn't bring any innovation to the story line, the way that the 1978 version did. If you're a fan of "Invasion...", I don't recomend it. If you are watching it for the horror aspect, eigther of the first two is superior to this one. I also recomend, John Carpenter's: "The Thing"; and Robert Heilein's: "The Puppet Masters", staring Donald Southerland.

Best of the Body-Snatchers Movies
Many have felt that the ability for the pods to take over the whole town in the first movie was a good stretch. To take over LA in the second movie was just impossible. But in this third version of the story, the setting is just right.

An EPA agent and his family are visiting an army base where there might be toxic waste leaking into the environment. Little do they know that chemicals are not the real threat. Strange pods have been found in the marsh.

As you are probably aware, the pods grow into duplicates of people and then replace them. On an army base, once an officer has been taken, it is easy to trap the lower ranks. It also means that the pod people have access to weapons supplies.

But the locale is not the only improvement in this version. We get plenty of key scenes where you never quite know who is still themselves and who can not be trusted. The conversion process has also been improved to explain how the pods can copy people and what happens to the bodies afterwards.

There is quite a bit of nudity in this version, so it is not as accessible as the earlier versions, but is definitely worth it.

This was a good scary movie
Well the monster made them switch bodys

"My mommy's dead."
Preschooler Andy sees his mother crumble into dust on her bed, and then sees her doppelganger come out of the closet and put on a robe to cover herself. We, and Andy, first see his mother's replacement from below the waist, and it's hard to tell if Andy's horror is caused by seeing his sleeping mother's body dissolve, the life sucked out of it by the tendrils of a body-snatching pod, or by the sight of her replacement's naked body. Which is more terrifying to the boy - - sex or death?

"My mommy's dead" is also true for Marti, Andy's stepbrother. As far as Marti's concerned, her father has already replaced her mother with a pod, her stepmother. Body Snatchers is about family dissolution as much as organic decomposition.

"Pod movies" are more terrifying than run-of-the-mill invasion stories (like Independence Day, The Day of the Triffids, The War of the Worlds) because the aliens don't want to just kill us or enslave us, they want to be us. In Body Snatchers, Major Collins tells the pod people before he blows his own brains out, "You won't take my soul!" Better dead than pod.

Abel Ferrara (director of Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant, and The Addiction) has done what Don Siegel did in 1955 and what Philip Kaufman did in 1978 - - given us a version of Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers that reveals its own era.

Besides the Communist-McCarthyite argument everyone sees in it, Siegel's version set in 1950s "Santa Mira" was about rural America and its repression. Kaufman's film in 1970s San Francisco showed the emptiness and disconnection in urban life that couldn't help but lead to the Greedy Age of the 1990s. Kaufman even set it near Silicon Valley, the center from which the economic tidal wave washed over everything. Ferrara's version, besides being a story of families torn up, is about militarism and ecological catastrophe.

Marti and Andy are the children of civilian EPA scientist Steve Malone and his wife Carol. Steve is making a tour of military installations checking for hazardous wastes.

We first see Marti reading in the family car, isolated from dad, stepmom, and brother. (Marti never makes the distinction that Andy is only her stepbrother; he's always her brother and she spends half the movie risking her own life to save him from the pods. In this movie the children have a better sense of what family should be than most adults.)

At the next army post on Steve's list of possible polluters, Marti hooks up with Jenn, the punk daughter of the post commander. Jenn's mom is drunk, passed out on the couch as Jenn mocks social etiquette and formally introduces Marti to her. "Mom's an alcoholic. That means I'll probably be one too," Jenn says, finishing her mother's drink. You might escape the pods, but you can't escape your family.

In Santa Mira in the fifties, we saw pods being distributed from the back of a truck on Main Street. In San Francisco in the seventies pods were kept in a greenhouse from which they were sent on to the rest of the country. But in the nineties soldiers take them out of a swamp (possibly polluted from all the toxic chemicals on the base) when they're ready to replace human beings.

It's not just an unlucky coincidence that the water around the post is good for growing body snatchers. These chemicals were always meant for killing. ("You don't know a thing about chemical warfare, do you, Dr. Malone?" the commander asks the scientist.)

Once the pods have taken over the post, the commander gives truck drivers their assignments - - transporting pods to other military bases from which the invasion will spread.

The army itself is a family, like the race of pods. When the pods happened upon the army post, they found a family that already had an ethic of individuals subordinating their welfare to the goals of the group. Individual death means nothing.

At the end of the movie, Marti and Tim (a young helicopter pilot Marti's become attracted to) take their (perhaps futile) revenge against the invaders for destroying their families.

Worst...
This is the worst remake of the remakes of the original. I enjoyed the first remake with Donald Sutherland but found this remake quite contrived and trite. Not the best, see the first remake and the original. Not the best film. ... Read more

Reviews (70)

Pretty Good
I'd say this was the best CP ever,but it has plenty(maybe
a little to much)false scares,plot holes,and humor.I think the goriest moment in this movie was when chucky as a doll shoves the knife up his arm.It is SO gross!I also say that this was the least scariest one.CP 1 was the scariest,and the darkest.But BOC(bride of chuckie)is way too plot holey-funny.It is twice as bad as this.But now,i'll tell you of the actuall movie:
Chuckie,as we should know from CP 1,was burned to a crisp and shot to pieces.This should have been the end,but NO!The stupid GOOD GUY factory rebuilds chucky,which is the biggest horror movie no-no ever!And he 's back,chasing Andy B.For his soul.Soon,
Andy moves to a foster home because his mom had a nervous breakdown and is in phciatric care.Anyway,just a day or 2 later,Chucky arrives-but is surprised to see Andy now onwns another Good Gye-TOMMY.Chucky destroyes it with andy Foster mom's statue.Soon,"Kyle"and Andy are alone.(kyle's andy foster sister).They head to the Good-Guy Factory,and after a few tries,kill chucky.
This is a good video to buy.

The best in the series and with a welcome sense of humor.
This was o.k. In fact some of the scenes in this film are drop down and catch your breath funny. And the story was cool with us finding out what happened after the original. Andy Barclay has just gotten over the fact that his mom was commited to a psycho ward and him being adopted by a family who want him to live with them. But everyone thinks he's nuts. Why? Well Charles Ray has finally found him. With a new body which he got from being rebuilt by a greedy toymaker who can't wait to unviel the new Good Guys Dolls. Chucky will find Andy and if he doesn't act like a good kid and hand his soul over, then Chucky is going to kill everyone Andy holds dear at the moment. But with the help of a fellow adoptive sister (who is eighteen to Andy's ten) he might just have a chance to escape with his life and end Chucky's second reign of terror. With a great sense of humor, numerous original death and the best finale in the series I highly recommend you get this film for your horror DVD (or cassete) library.

Decent
Decidely the second-worst movie in the CP trilogy. CP 3 is the best, CP 1 the worst. (CP 1 was good but it is the worst of the three). This one has more Chucky action and less slowness to the premise - a plus. Poor Andy is sent to foster care where him and Kyle must battle Chucky's evil. The movie is a bit unbelieveable - The factory ressurects the very same doll that may have been responsible for the murders? Even if they don't believe it, this gets a thumbs-down as the opener. It would've been deliciously spooky for Chucky to ressurect himself, but then again, how would he have?
Overall, the acting is mostly average. Jenny Augutter does fairly well, Gerrit Graham -- tries, and the actress for Kyle does an excellent job. Alex Vincent does not do as well as the first film; he's lost the 6-year-old "innocent" feel.
I'd say this is more worth a buy than a rent. Most people say watching a few times increases the stregnth of the impact of the movie.
The ending on the VHS & DVD is Kyle and Andy walking outside of the factory. Some cable channels show the beginning of the third movie to end this one: Chucky getting reassembled and smiling. That's a mistake.
This movie, especially the last fifteen minutes, delivers fairly well for the price. I'd never say STELLAR, but I'd say good or maybe great.

Sorry Jack, Chucky's back!
This sequel picks up where the first one left off.

Young Andy is now in foster care after being taken away from his mother. He still has nightmares about his killer doll.

Little does he know that the company has completly reconstucted Chucky. After Chucky escapes from the factory, he tracks Andy down to his new home. He begins to do things that get Andy in trouble and nobody listens when Andy tells them "Chucky's back".

When Chucky and Andy have their final showdown at the doll factory, Chucky finds out that it is now too late to transfer his soul. He is now human. This enrages Chucky and his goal now is to kill him.

Not as good as the original, the sequal is decent at best.

30 Minutes Stretched Into 90 minutes
Child's Play 2 did not have much of a storyline. The movie could of easily been fit into a half an hour. This film really deserves 0 stars. ... Read more