Bicentennial Man
28,181
Sci-Fi. Drama
This film follows the 'life' and times of the lead character, an android who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes that they don't have an ordinary droid as Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a story that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity while trying to stop those who created him from destroying him.
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United States | Los Angeles Times | "A mainstream holiday movie, complete with stupendous special effects, amazing make-up artistry and sumptuous production design. | NEU |
United States | New York Post | "The once-funny Robin Williams is still stuck in his excruciating touchy-feely mode" | NEG |
United States | Miami Herald | Entertains but never quite engages. | NEU |
United States | Chicago Reader | "The childish humor and sensationalistic effects undercut the movie's philosophical agenda." | NEG |
United States | Austin Chronicle | "More a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else, and a welcome respite from Robin Williams, the emotion sponge." | POS |
United States | Newsweek | "Kids will be bored, the rest of us baffled." | NEG |
United States | Variety | "Columbus' approach is intended to cloak such topics as mortality and human identity in the warm glow of greeting card sentiment, which renders the prescription palatable for mass consumption but hopelessly diluted" | NEU |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A mainstream holiday movie, complete with stupendous special effects, amazing make-up artistry and sumptuous production design." | POS |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism" | NEG |
United States | Philadelphia Inquirer | "I'll be darned if I can think of a more excruciating, ponderous, remarkably unfunny and inert cinemagoing experience to come down the pike in ages." | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "A cold, protracted and unemotional affair" | NEG |
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