It’s when people start making Andy unhappy (like Karen's boyfriend Shane ) that Chucky unleashes the carnage you expect, although this time it’s out of love-he wants to protect Andy, so much as to own him.
Eventually, Chucky helps Andy befriend two neighboring fellow kids, Pugg ( Ty Consiglio) and Falyn ( Beatrice Kitsos), because Chucky can do goofy things like repeat naughty words. But it’s Chucky (voiced by Mark Hamill) who persists to be in Andy’s life, a doll designed to be your friend no matter what, and they bond during a very Pixar-lookin' montage where Andy shows Chucky how to brush his teeth, or play a board game. In the winking attitude of the movie, Karen was able to get one of the dolls from her department store job because its “eyes were turning red,” and Andy doesn’t even like the present-he’s a little too old for it, and there’s already a sequel on the horizon, the Buddi 2. Directed by Lars Klevberg and written by Tyler Burton Smith, this version tells of a tween named Andy ( Gabriel Bateman) who receives a “Buddi” doll from his mother Karen ( Aubrey Plaza), because he seems only able to make friends with the guy down the hall, Detective Mike ( Brian Tyree Henry).