A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2 DVDs)

For some reason unknown to me this film is one of my hubbies favourite, I do like the film but I have to admit that I have seen a lot better, but then again I have also seen a lot worse. The film is set in the future where adults are only allowed to have children if they have a licence as they are trying to keep the population numbers down so scientists have started working on making robot children. For 20 years one scientist has been working on making a robot child that is capable of love. When he finishes the robot he decided to test it out with the family of one of his employers who already have a son but he is in a coma, where he has been for the past 5 ...  Read the complete review

It is some point in the not too distant future. Earth has suffered environmental catastrophe as a result of the polar ice caps melting, and consequentially a large number of the planet’s shoreline cities have been flooded. Millions of their inhabitants have been made homeless, and the planet is under greater pressure from over population than ever before. In order to prevent the situation escalating, the governments of the civilised world have put in place regulations that prevent couples from having any more children unless they are vetted and licensed to do so. As countless couples across the globe struggle to cope without children of their own, attention has turned ...  Read the complete review

It is the future. Earth has suffered environmental crisis, cities are flooded and the planet is critically overpopulated. No one can have children unless licensed to do so. To appease the childless, robot children are created. They do as they are told and say the right things, but they are incapable of feeling. For scientist Professor Hobby this is not enough. He wants to make a child who can feel and who is capable of real 'human' love. After twenty years of striving, his work is complete, and the child, David, is given to a couple whose own son has long been in a coma from which he does not look likely to recover. The woman does not want David ...  Read the complete review

Some things are meant to be. You are meant to be born, live a life and die. In between, in the natural order of things, you should by all rights have a mother and a father. In the time allotted, you should be able to develop a nurturing relationship with your parents, which will see you through into adult life. A.I. works on the classic premise of "what if?". In this case, what if a humanoid child that could love substituted the child? Moreover, what would happen if the human offspring returned to share the same parental home as the robot child? These issues only begin to graze the surface of a deep thinking movie. I watched AI with a sense of ...  Read the complete review

A.I. (Two Discs) (DVD) (Widescreen) (2001) Region 2 Disk Released 18th March 2002 The following is a review of the Region 1 US Disk. Pinocchio meets Blade Runner meets The Elephant Man meets 2001 : A Space Odyssey". The fusion of Spielberg and Kubrick and a (very) short story entitled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss has resulted in a very emotionally manipulative movie that's three parts cute to two parts cold, that will get you talking and WILL divide audiences. In a nutshell, the plot revolves around a small boy (Haley Joel Osment) seeking his place in the world and to love and be loved by his ...  Read the complete review