Cherry 2000
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Movie Reviews of Cherry 2000
Movie Review: The Best and Cheesiest Movie EVER!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is an all time cult classic B movie. What a hoot!!!Movie Review: just enjoy it!
Summary: 4 Stars
You can read all the other reviews about this "post apocalyptic sci-fi" and the editorial reviews for the details, but simply put, Cherry 2000 is a fun movie. Star power alone with seeing the sexy Melanie Griffith in her early years and the legendary Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr. in their twilight is reason enough to watch this movie. A young "Larry" Fishburn also makes an appearance. But that aside Tim Thomerson is great as the villian "Lester" with his sinister crew doing the "Hokey Pokey" and sending the killers out on their mission to kill the heroes and of course to be careful and be themselves. Don't forget the sandwiches. This movie is simply a stupid funny great movie.
Now if you are in to seeing where a movie like this is made and you happen to be in Las Vegas and need to get out of town because you are losing your shirt. The locations are incredible. Head out west from Vegas 2 hours to Beatty Nevada, take a left a few miles in to the ghost town Rhyolite. You will recognize the ruins of a city built to lastforever that now is in ruins and was used as the "fringe" of humanity as Melanie Griffith heads in to the forbidden zone (Lester's territory). Lester's Sky Ranch is one hour north on Vegas in Valley of Fire State Park. This state park is used for numerous westerns ("The Professionals" with Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster for one), science fictions (Captain Kirk of the Star Trek Enterprise dies here in "Generations") and about 2,000 car commercials. Speaking of ghosts, that creepy hotel in the movie is the "Goldfield Hotel" in Goldfield Nevada, and hour or less north of Beatty. This once grand hotel that served raw oysters, fine wines from France, filet mignons and world renown pastries in the early 1900's and hosted the longest heavy weight prize fight in history has been closed for 60+ years and houses now nothing but ghosts. Considered by ghost hunters to be one of a few true "portals" in the world to the ghostly beyond. It is rumored the film crew for Cherry 2000 refused to take up lodging at night in the Goldfield Hotel during the filming in fear of the spirits. Even in the daytime film equipment unexpectectly failed and noises were heard that scarred the crap out of the extras. The Eye seen on the wall in the movie is still to this day visible on a nearby building. After your tour go back home and watch Cherry 2000 again for another bizarre appreciation for the movie and its locations.
Movie Review: Cherry Comes Home To DVD!
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie Summary: Sam Treadwell's perfect robot wife, model Cherry 2000, breaks down. He wants to get her fixed because he thinks he loves her. But in post apocalyptic LA, there aren't any parts. He hears a rumor of a giant warehouse of Cherrys out in the wasteland. The problem is getting there, and getting back alive. To improve his odds he hires a tracker named E. Johnson (played by Griffith) who turns out to be a very unique and real woman, something that Sam has never encountered before. As E and Sam fight their way across the wasteland and into the warehouse, Sam learns a little something about real women and real love.My Opinion: This movie is a ton of fun. At first glance it may not seem like much, but when you watch it, it pulls you in and takes over. Sure it's a bit silly at times, but it has more depth than other movies of this type. There is a full blown plot and a moral to the story. The action is good, and Griffith is great. It's one of those guilty pleasures movies that you are embarrassed to admit that you like. It's very easy and fun to watch making it one that you will watch more than once.
DVD Quality: Widescreen anamorphic, trailer, and making of documentary make this a nice little DVD
What You Should Do: Buy it. If you are a SciFi fan you need this one. The price couldn't be better!
Movie Review: Guilty pleasure with a Cherry on top
Summary: 4 Stars
Obscure for many years since its original 1988 release (only popping up in maddeningly butchered "TV" prints), fans of sci-fi camp can rejoice that "Cherry 2000" is available at last. A klutzy yuppie-of-the-near-future short circuits his android girlfriend's "body" during an ill advised tryst on a wet kitchen floor (you know-all those electronics) and Melanie Griffith (striking a perfect balance between kittenish sexiness and post-Linda Hamilton kick-butt action heroine) is the "tracker for hire" who is going to help him find him a replacement. She takes her lovelorn client and his precious "memory chip" on a "Something Wild"-ish ride through a post apocalyptic "forbidden zone" chock-a-block with "Mad Max" type baddies (including the King of "direct to video" himself, Tim Thomerson!). Slyly cloaking its Feminist Fable message with spirited action and imaginative set pieces (despite an obvious low-budget), "Cherry 2000" belongs on your shelf next to "A Boy And His Dog" (perfect for a Melanie/Don Johnson "sci-fi double bill"!), "Tank Girl", "Six-String Samurai" and the suspiciously similar "Circuitry Man".Movie Review: Great post-apacalyptic sci-fi thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
One of many post-apocapyptic thrillers following the success of Mad Max and The Road Warrior -- and a good one.Griffith is a tough femme mercenary hired by a yuppie to retrieve his stolen "Cherry 2000" sex android. It sounds silly, but the film has exciting fight scenes, and also moments of warmth and poignancy. Griffith is too proud to admit that she's grown in love with the yuppie.
Of course, the yuppie eventually realizes that the love a real woman (Griffith) beats the "perfect" love of a vapid android.
Film resembles Circuitry Man, another great post-apocalyptic thriller. In that one, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson is a tough femme mercenary who falls in love with a not-so-vapir male sex adroid.
Yeah, they both sound stupid, but they're fine films if you like the genre.
Cherry 2000 wasn't distributed until several years after its completion. For several years in the 1980s, I kept reading reports of "the soon to be released Cherry 2000." I suppose the Mad Max cycle had ended by the time Cherry 2000 was finished, and distributors got cold feet. The film still seems to suffer some residual (and unjustified) bad reputation.
I found it highly entertaining, with moments of philosophical depth.