Click here to copy URL

Short Circuit 2

1988

Kenneth Johnson

Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb ...

5.0

5,859

Sci-Fi. Comedy Ben Jahvri is now living in New York, selling miniature toy versions of No 5 on the street. Assistant salesperson Sandy Benatoni offers to buy a thousand of the toys for a department store chain. But Ben is unprepared for manufacturing on such a scale. Hearing of his dilemma, Newton Crosbie sends the real No 5 to help him meet his deadline. No 5 finishes the job in no time at all, but problems begin when it gets loose in the city, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"There’s nothing really wrong with this movie. It’s a pleasantly slick, well-tooled little fairy tale without much real character or substance"	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"For anyone over the age of 6, the film is as much fun as wearing wet sneakers. The robot does some unusual things, but is singularly charmless"	NEG
United States	Variety	"Although derivative, the robot (...) remains charming, and kids will undoubtedly find delightful scenes"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"[It] has several moments of humour (...) but too many minutes of tedium as it wonders whether to be social satire or pratfall parody (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"This is that rare thing - a moderately intelligent kids' film, and a sequel that is better than the original"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Short Circuit 2' is unabashedly mawkish and sophomoric (...) But if you're a kid, or an adult with an Erector Set, you might just enjoy this summer-weight caper."	NEU
United States	Jesse Cataldo Slant	"[It] may be dumb, there’s no slickness or meanness to that stupidity, which makes the hokiness disarming rather than disappointing"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.