CinemaSerf
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Dec 11, 2025
Luckily it isn’t actually five more nights at home with the pizza loving bear, but it still felt like it took an age to get to a conclusion that you could have seen from space. “Abby” (Piper Rubio) is missing her now defunct animatronic friends whilst elder brother “Mike” (Josh Hutcherson) is having one of those will they/won’t they dalliances with “Vanessa” (Elizabeth Lail). It’s while this latter pair are on a particularly awkward date that she sneaks out and visits the surprisingly accessible derelict old amusement park, where she sits and pines for her lost pals. It seems, though, that the malevolent "Charlotte” hasn’t quite finished with “Abby” and using “Chico” et al as doting conduits, she manages to formulate a cunning and brutal plan that will see her take revenge on all the neglectful parents out there whom she blames for her own grisly demise back in 2022 (or last year according to the plot). It speaks volumes when the “and” credit at the end is for Matthew Lillard, and I guess JH can’t have had his advance for next year’s “Hunger Games” prequel yet, else why would he get involved with this derivative plod of a movie. It’s scripted and delivers like a mediocre video game that relies on nostalgic tokens to charm it’s audience and though there is some quite entertaining gore occassionaly, the whole thing is an entirely unnecessary sequel to a film that had precious little originality to it in the first place. It could quite easily lose half an hour with no impact on it’s story and I can only pray that we won’t have to spend any more nights with these clunking clowns - battery powered or not.