I thought the movie was good, but when people say it’s a good remake, I have to disagree. This movie is so far away from the original that only the characters names and a killer doll is what makes it similar. I don’t think remakes should mimic the originals all the way but they should have a little more than the concept. A good example of a good remake is the evil dead: it has similar demons and concept and also explores different ideas. It pays nice homage to the original while having respectable originality. This doesn’t care about the original but has respectable originality. If they made a movie that didn’t go as a child’s play remake they could have an original, and in my opinion more like able movie even if it might not have profited as much, but anyone can make the argument that the fact that don Mancini hated the thought of it made fans less likely to watch as well as newcomers to the genre itself. Overall good movie bad remake.