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I, Robot
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan,
Alan Tydyk, James Cromwell |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
20th
Century Fox |
| Web Site: |
www.irobotmovie.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Not too young. |
| Date Movie: |
She'll wonder why you're not in
as good as shape as Will Smith. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
You see Will's butt. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Lots of robots get destroyed. |
| Action: |
Lots of robots are chasing
people. |
| Laughs: |
A couple of good lines. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Nothing that stands out. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Nothing that stands out. |
| Directed By: |
Alex Proyas |
| Produced By: |
Laurence Mark, John Davis |
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I, Robot
A Movie Review |
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Sometimes the benefit of a trailer is that you have a
pretty good idea of what you are going to get. Fans of Isaac Asimov
might have expected more, but when it’s summer and you’ve got Will
Smith as a cop, well, you should get a wham, bam, blast you mam summer
blockbuster. With "I, Robot" you get just that.As the movie starts,
we get the feeling Detective Spooner (Smith) has a problem with
robots, probably something to do about a drowning, but we are left in
the dark until he later reveals why he doesn’t like the mechanical
creatures. But in this world, which Chicago, and the robot world, has
a lot of catching up to do if we’ll see anything near this in 2035,
robots have these three wacky rules that keep them from destroying the
human race. We also find, as the movie starts, the Will Smith really
wants to show off how buff his body is. Anyway, it turns out there’s
been a death at the robot research center, which isn’t good when it’s
one of the head scientists and you’re on the verge of a monster
roll-out of the new model, especially when it’s thought that rather
than a suicide, well, the robots are turning on their human fathers
and mothers. The corporate people insist it couldn’t be the robot
Sonny (voiced by Alan Tudyk), but Spooner is being fed too many clues,
and still holding that grudge, that he just can’t let it go. Enter
Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan, who sadly doesn’t show us how good a
shape she is in), kind of a shrink to make the robots a little more
human-like. Go figure, Spooner convinces Calvin that something might
be amuck, eventually they figure it out, and it’s a big ol’ fight at
the end to save mankind, or maybe it’s just mankind’s way of life we
are saving.
Anyway, not to get too deep about this movie, if you want deep read
the Asimov stories. For this we want chase scenes – we get them. For
this we want an easy to follow story with still a few surprises – we
get them. For this we want some witty lines from Will Smith – we get
them, too. Sadly, at least for me, we get to see Will Smith’s butt and
not Bridget’s. I guess you can’t have it all.
If you’re looking for your normal, summer, blockbuster flick, with
explosions, and lots of robots getting blown to bits because you can
blow a robot to bits but not a human for a PG-13 movie, this is as
okay as they come. There is some preaching going on, but it does tie
in with the robot rules, but it’s not too in your face to ruin the fun
of the movie.
I’ll wrap this up giving "I, Robot" 3 ½ stars out of 5. You’ll
probably get what you expect, the effects are pretty great, and it
would have easily gotten another star if Susan was showering without a
shower curtain like Spooner was instead of her being in one of those
glass shower stalls all fogged up. Oh well!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
