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Summary: Tooth-Rotting Syrup
Review: Predictably cute and so sweet it will rot your teeth at 20 paces. Children will love it, but schedule a trip to the dentist immediately thereafter.
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Summary: One Of The Best Movies I Ever Saw!
Review: Short Circuit is one of the best movies I ever saw! Nova robot Number 5 gives lots of laughs and stuns you with the impressive robotic technology he has. I'd recommend this film to anyone who loves high-tech, likes to laugh, and loves to watch action-packed movies!
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Summary: Loved Number 5 - And Your Family Will Too!
Review: Short Circuit is one of those movies that when it came out in 1985 I remembered walking out thinking what a fun film that was. Alley Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg were a great screen team. And fresh of Saturday Night Fever ad Wargames, director John Badham really showed the compassionate side of humanity. This is a warm and friendly family film for everyone.The plot is simple - aren't they all? The military develops a device meant for war and 'first strike' and decides to take it to the officials of the government for funding. Five very unique and laser-powered robots are built. Something happens to one of them, "Number 5", during the demonstration where an electrical storm creates an electrical surge and super jolts Number 5. Guess what? He comes alive! Complete with a personality and a small amount charm. He escapes (accidentally) and befriends an animal activist Stephanie (Sheedy) while Newton (Guttenberg) is assigned to chase him down and get him back. Now add the adversary of the military trying to destroy him and you've got a great chase movie. Filled with laughs, bits, gags and a few scene stealing lines, this movie makes you believe that Number 5 IS alive! Some great supporting character roles and a lot of technically puppetry that would make even George Lucas jealous - the energy in this movie is great. The DVD extras include a commentary with the director and writers as well as the original 1985 interviews with cast and crew. This is definitely a fun family film and something everyone who likes science fiction and fantasy mixed together will enjoy this a lot!
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Summary: Cute.
Review: Short Circuit was a cute movie and Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy were very good in this movie which is fine for the whole family to enjoy!
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Summary: Not one bit of creativity or fun in this awful movie
Review: Struck by lightning, a powerful battle robot achieves consciousness and escapes from its creator. Pursued by the military, Number 5, as it is called, is befriended by a sweet-natured animal-loving numbskull (Ally Sheedy), the robot's reclusive inventor (Steve Guttenberg), and an offensive East Indian stereotype (Fisher Stevens). This is a very bad movie. Unlike so many other reviewers on this page, I found it to be dull and mechanical, a by-the-numbers production with a clunky and unappealing robot at its center, filled with stock characters that do and say exactly what you think they will because you've seen it all a million times before. Boo. I was shocked that the screenwriters, Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson, are the same people who would go on to write the B-movie classic, "Tremors." They obviously improved over time.
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Summary: Short Circuit Never Stops
Review: The amazing 1986 film "Short Circuit" was very interesting. With the limits in technolgy in 1986, director John Badham was still able to pull off a technological masterpeice that is found fascinating to families around the world, even today. I reccomend this video to any person who is interested in technology, yet, has a light side and likes to find a robot who is struck by lightning find it's way in modern society without being stereotyped. END
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Summary: GOOD TIMES
Review: This is a good, well put together movie in a which a robot, named "NUMBER 5" is hit by lightning and starts to think for itself. From this part of the movie on, it is a bundle of laughs, HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....oh mercy...It is a delight to see the robot try to be human and see him get "INPUT." I would say more but I don't want to give the story away! RENT OR BUY THIS MOVIE!!! GOOD TIMES had by ALL!!!!
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Summary: One Of My Favorites!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. It's a good movie to watch when your bored. In the movie, there's robots and they do pretty good. And then Newton Crosby (Steve Guttenberg) and Ben (Fisher Stevens) thinks of dissasembling him to find out which parts go to which but number 5 is afraid he will die. Well first, he lands on Stephanie Speck's (Ally Sheedy)truck and then afterwords she finds...a number 5! And then she shows him around the place. And then number 5 always asks for Input and... well, you'll find out the rest when you see this movie.
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Summary: number 5 is alive!
Review: this movie brings back memorys. i have allways loved this movie. some of the jokes in it still make me laugh, "cult 45, semi auto matic, play doh!". a great movie and an overal good dvd edition. could be a bit better with deleted scenes and trailers but a good dvd. at least see this movie on tape. this is a classic that should live on a long time!
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Summary: something for everybody
Review: This movie can be viewed on a basic level: action, explosions, gunfire! On a "higher" level, there are the characters: Ally Sheedy's naive, ditsy lover of disadvantaged creatures, who takes in stray animals. Her wide-eyed confidence, "I KNEW you'd pick me!", when she thinks the robot is an alien visiting earth, is typical of her endearing character. The relationship to the robot is very credible. The gestures of the robot are better than E.T.'s and must have been designed by an actor.
On another level, there are the political and economic implications: weapons research, the tension between congress and the military, etc.
On another level, there is the wit: the Indian character's slight alterations of American cliches forces us to hear those cliches for the first time and to see how silly some of them are.
Finally, for the contemplative, there is the metaphysical level: what does it mean to be alive? what is the difference between being alive and merely being functional?
It would be surprising if there were anyone who couldn't find something to enjoy in this movie.
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