A.I. Artificial Intelligence PG 13
Stanley Kubrick began what Steven Spielberg completed upon Kubrick's death, in this epic tale of a boy android who wants to know love, and to be fully human. Pinocchio in space skin. It is a future where global warming has flooded New York, but oddly enough, not lower elevated Haddlefield, in New Jersey, where the action takes place. Maybe they moved it into the hills after it flooded? This is never explained. The odd technical weirdness of shape changing bot parts and people boys, and other mecha seems to either be intended, or a series of production mistakes that neither director caught on the editing floor. Once the boy finds his creator, an aged factory mech, he is tossed into the ocean in a flooded amusement park. That should have been the end, but no. Several thousand years later, after an ice age, (with no explanation about where the extra water came from), and it just goes on sadly brooding as the robot boy is resurrected by advanced robotic aliens, evolved from the machines left after humanity died out. (Never explained). Not sure what's going on, but it's a trippy flick. A bit overlong. See it in segments. Review by Adam Browne
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