Those scary-looking kids are back to follow-up a cinematic debut two years ago which brought in over $100 million in the U.S. alone. The most noticeable differences this time, besides the setting, are bigger stars for the guest voices (Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow), fewer stars on the less-interesting soundtrack (the original had Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb, Jakob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, Beck, Patti Smith, Fred Schneider, and Cindy Wilson, among others; the sequel has “Who Let the Dogs Out”), more nauseating consumption of junk food (these kids consume enough sugar to send the entire Ukraine into a diabetic coma), and even more excretia-related humor (that’s what you get when you cross Nickelodeon with an ex-“Baywatch” writer). It’s big, fast-paced, prettily colored, sweetly plotted (about finding a new mom/wife for Chucky and dad), and sometimes funny though, so if you can stand all the rather misplaced body-function content (I tried to keep subtotals on booger, vomit, belch, fart, and numbers 1 & 2 jokes, but literally lost count in the first five minutes) it’s not as bad as letting your kids watch another movie about cannibalistic South American soccer players. C
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