Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

capone666 Short Circuit 2Robots cannot only do our jobs better, but they can stand in the unemployment line longer than any human.Fortunately, the bot in this comedy has multiple jobs to support him.Loaned out to his old friend Benjamin (Fisher Stevens) to help with the production of his new toy line, Johnny 5 (Tim Blaney) finds NYC to be much more interesting than his rural home.One day when he wanders off he befriends a bank-robber (Jack Weston) who wants to use Johnny 5 to dig a tunnel into a vault.Meanwhile, Benjamin's business partner (Michael McKean) plots to sell Johnny 5 for millions.Despite the poor casting of a white actor as the East Indian lead, this sequel to the corny original exceeds its predecessor by focusing more on Johnny's evolution, as well as ramping up the action.Incidentally, Johnny 5 went on to become an unsuccessful bomb disposal robot.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

SnoopyStyle Ben (Fisher Stevens) has been reduced to selling toy copies of Johnny Five on the street corners. Sandy Banatoni (Cynthia Gibb) is a associate from Simpson toy department who runs across one of the tiny Johnny Fives. She orders for more toys which Ben is incapable of making by himself. Hustler Fred Ritter (Michael McKean) insinuates himself into the deal. He borrows from a loan shark to rent out a rundown place across from a giant bank. Little do they know that diamond thieves are trying to break into the bank through their rundown place. The thieves try to run them out. Then Johnny Five arrives from Newton and Stephanie's Montana ranch to help Ben build his toys.It's a scaled-back sequel to the cute original. That explains the loss of the lead actors and relocate shooting to Toronto. Ally Sheedy only has a voice message. On the other hand, Fisher Stevens returns with the racially insensitive character. The movie is not only lower quality. It is more mean-spirited without the cute Newton and Stephanie romance. It's stupider. Johnny Five still has a bit of charm but the franchise is no longer fun.

skullislandsurferdotcom It's rare a sequel exceeds the original, but this does in leaps and bounds. The lovable robot - wanted by the military in the first film - is shipped to Indian scientist Fisher Stevens in New York, taking to the streets of The Big Apple: wanting to be human like everyone else.But Number Five, now Johnny Five, has other problems: including bank robbers and helping his creator connect with a beautiful, ambitious climber set to buy toy versions of himself... or rather, itself... from Stevens and seedy partner Michael McKean. Director Kenneth Johnson, who successfully adapted THE INCREDIBLE HULK to television, does for Johnny Five what he did for The Hulk: adding, through interesting low-angle shots and character-driven perspective, depth and humanity to what had been, in both the Robot and Hulk's origins, merely child's play.

DoctorMuffins Short Circuit 2, for all its inherent '80s cheese, is a genuinely touching film. Through very well-worn staples of robots-with-emotions stories, it explores the nature of personality and what it really means to be alive. However, it avoids total redundancy by pairing Johnny Five, a brainy, kindly robot with retro pop culture references just popping out of his head, with Benjamin, a nerdy, overzealous soon-to-be citizen played with equal silliness and empathy by Fisher Stevens. Two scenes in particular truly stand out: one, when Johnny Five has been arrested, he sits chained to a wall contemplatively reading Pinocchio and Frankenstein. In another, after Five has been mercilessly beaten (as an adult, it still makes me cry), he meets up with Fred, played by Michael McKean. Too injured to speak and running on a stolen car battery, Johnny Five desperately (yet painfully slowly) scrawls his pleas for help on an alley wall with a rock. This film has many flaws from both technical and aesthetic viewpoints, but I still just can't divorce myself from how moving it is to watch a robot genuinely struggle to be alive in both a physical and metaphysical sense.