Fun family movie
Added 8/24/2009
Sometimes you have to go back a ways to find a really decent family movie appropriate for small children. This one is missing the adult content, language, and disrespect found in most of today's proclaimed family movies.
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Old favorites
Added 8/1/2009
Great movie to share with my grands. My kids loved this and my grands did too. Good for rainy days!
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Great movir
Added 7/13/2009
Great movie. My hisband has been wanting these movies for forever and I found them and spent a friday night watching them all. Great collection if you get one and two.
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How do I feel? I feel aliiiiiiiive
Added 5/17/2009
Short Circuit has long had the misfortune of being unfavorably compared to its predecessor (aka Police Academy with Robots) I'm glad that it's been getting more positive feedback nowadays; then again, it was only a matter of time considering the many, many memorable quotes ("Los Locos kick your...")
My mom still likes the original, though. Okay, so you got Austin Pendleton and Ally Sheedy....but Guttenberg?? C'mon!
Much of Short Circuit's 2's success is owed to Fisher Stevens, who steps awkwardly in the forefront but quickly wins you over. His character, Ben, is no longer psudo-racist comic relief -- evidenced by the change of his surname from "Jabituya" (subtle) to Jahrvi. He will never receive the acclaim he deserves thanks to political correctness, but hey, if we let Lawrence Olivier get away with playing Othello, then surely we can't fault a Caucasian guy for playing an Indian guy, right? Stevens endows Ben with a lot of heart and plays him as a sort of human counterpart to Johnny Five; both are good-hearted but lack people skills. The script still overuses Ben's tendency to mispronounce English ("How time is fun when you're having flies.") Lame.
Also worthy of praise is Michael McKean as the shifty Fred Ritter. He does surprisingly well for a brand-new character and makes a great foil to the über-scrupulous Ben. The scenes where Ben grows increasingly outraged by Fred's complete lack of morals still make me snicker even though I can pretty much recite the entire movie by memory. Luckily, Ben and Fred's opposing natures make them a good team.
It's hard to describe, but the movie seems packed with events even though not much is happening in it. There's a trio of goons who want to rob a bank with Johnny's help, but it kind of pales to the impending peril of Johnny Five's military overlords in the prequel. Johnny's trials are a LOT more personal in this one, however; his ambush by axe-wielding thugs is outlandishly brutal and arguably out of place in an otherwise PG-rated movie (big warning there). Mingled with the attack is a real sense of betrayal, too, as Johnny's naivete leads him to trust a truly vile individual.
I saw this movie before Short Circuit 1, and it didn't hamper my enjoyment at all. Go. Watch. NAO.
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Bringinh back the 80s Johnny 5's alive for my children
Added 4/7/2009
This is a great movie, my 5 year old loved it... she said he's like Wall-E
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Fun family movie
Added 8/24/2009
Sometimes you have to go back a ways to find a really decent family movie appropriate for small children. This one is missing the adult content, language, and disrespect found in most of today's proclaimed family movies.
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Old favorites
Added 8/1/2009
Great movie to share with my grands. My kids loved this and my grands did too. Good for rainy days!
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Great movir
Added 7/13/2009
Great movie. My hisband has been wanting these movies for forever and I found them and spent a friday night watching them all. Great collection if you get one and two.
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