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Movie Reviews of Cherry 2000
Movie Review: There's a lot more to love than hot wiring.
Summary: 3 Stars
In terms of post apocalyptic sci-fi action type movies, this one isn't too bad. A little goofy for my tastes, but the humor was subtle and the action okay. David Andrews (Graveyard Shift, Hannibal, Apollo 13) stars as Sam Treadwell, as somewhat well to do individual in the post apocalyptic near future. He prefers the company of a highly sophisticated pleasure bot, a model called Cherry 2000, to that of the messy entanglements of a relationship with a woman. Only problem is, during a romantic interlude, his Cherry 2000 get water in her system and suffers a complete internal meltdown. Removing the personality chip which contains voice patterns, mannerisms, etc., he sets out to find a replacement, which is easier said than done, as that model is nearly impossible to come by, and highly coveted. He gets a tip that there is a whole warehouse of the Cherry 2000 model in a warehouse, problem is the warehouse is located in wastelands, a highly restrictive and dangerous area.
Sam decides to hire a tracker to go and retrieve him a new unit, and meets with Edith E. Johnson, played by Melanie Griffith. So Sam and Edith set off in her souped up Ford Mustang, into the wastelands. After a skirmish or two, they encounter one of the more feared groups of the wastelands, led by Lester, played by Tim Thomerson (Trancers, Who's Harry Crumb, Air America). Lester and his gang live what I would call a little suburb of the desert called Sky Ranch, and detest trackers. Why they hate trackers, I don't know, as it's never explained, but they do, so I went with it. Avoiding capture and also avoiding getting blown up, Sam and Edith eventually meet up with Six Fingered Jake, played by Ben Johnson, veteran actor of more western movies than I care to mention, and winner of an academy award for his role in The Last Picture Show (1971). He's a semi-retired tracker who provides a safe haven for Sam and Edith. After a short rest, the two start out again, but get waylaid by Lester and his gang, and Sam ends up getting kidnapped. Sam escapes from Lester, causing much damage to Sky Ranch, and Lester and his cronies pursue. Sam and Edith finally come to where the Cherry 2000 units are, with Lester and Co. in hot pursuit. Oh yeah, there's a sort of love interest between Sam and Edith that develops and is kind of important around the end of the movie.
A decent movie, but a couple glaring inconsistencies in the continuity. The biggest one I can remember is when Lester and his gang are chasing Sam and Edith through the desert, following in a Jeep and a small truck. They stop at some point, open the back of the truck, and four ATVs pull out of the truck. In the next scene, we see the jeep and about 10 to 15 ATVs. Unless that was some kind of magical truck with a transdimensional wormhole in the back, I have no idea where all the other ATVs came from. And the scene with the car hanging from the giant magnet attached to the crane...if one of Lesters men was operating the crane, why did he keep moving the crane? Lesters men were trying to shoot at the car hanging from the crane, but were unable to get a bead on it due to it kept moving...just made no sense. I found it interesting that Melanie Griffith made this movie well into her career, and after her much better movie, Something Wild. This type of movie just seems like one that an actor would be in before they became famous, like Jennifer Aniston in Leprechan.
As for extra features, there is a 'Making of...' documentary (cough, cough) if you can call it that. It's like six minutes long, 2 minutes of which is the trailer, and looks like a bad high school production. There is also a trailer for the movie. Watching the trailer, I noticed a few scenes not in the movie. One scene is where Lester shoots a woman in the head, and her body goes flying backwards into a pool of water. In the actual movie, we see Lester fire his gun in the direction of the woman who is off screen, and that's it. Also, in the trailer there is a scene where Edith is changing in another room, and comes out with her shirt unbuttoned, allowing us to see part of her chest (not all) in a view where she's facing the camera. In the movie, we get more of a side view and a much more limited view. Since this movie is rated PG-13, I am assuming that these two scenes probably got nixed from the movie to avoid an R rating, but nice to see they were put into the trailer.
Movie Review: More entertaining than I thought it was going to be
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a moderately entertaining eighties SF film. It actually is a mixed genre film, being a combo of a Western and a romantic comedy interlaced with a host of SF elements. The central plot involves the efforts of Sam Treadwell to find a replacement chassis for his Cherry 2000 love robot. The setting is 2017 in a United States that has undergone complete economic collapse. Much of the national infrastructure has collapsed, leaving various cities as isolated enclaves. The only remaining Cherry 2000 chasses exist only in a robot graveyard in Sector 7, someplace well west of Anaheim, where Sam lives. To get to Sector 7 Sam hires a tracker by the name of Edith Johnson, played by the little-girl-voiced Melanie Griffith. This was immediately before the beginning of Griffith's newly won respect as an actress in WORKING GIRL. Not that she hadn't already enjoyed success as an actress, having turned in a fine performance in SOMETHING WILD and before that in BODY DOUBLE. But WORKING GIRL put her in a different category entirely, despite her little girl voice and moderate abilities as an actress.
Much of the plot is predictable. Sam and Edith have a number of adventures throughout their quest for a Cherry 2000. The only real question becomes whether Sam will in fact want his robot in the end, or whether he will want to stay with the real live girl. Why Edith would be interested in Sam is never really explained. It is merely posited as a fact during the course of the story.
One of the purposes to which robotic characters are put in movies and television is to explore what it means to be human. This film surprisingly barely does that, except to imply that an artificial relationship cannot replace a real one. Of course, this is made possible by the limitations in Cherry herself. But imagine if instead she had had the consciousness and capacity for self-reflection of the replicants in BLADE RUNNER or Sharon on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. The film, therefore, does not manage to become a serious participant in the string of important films about robots and artificial people.
If you pay attention you will see Laurence Fishburne in a very small role as a lawyer in a bar early in the film. Also, when Sam is led through the robot repair shop after being told that Cherry was irreparably damaged, he and the mechanic pass by copies of Robbie the Robot and Gort from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, the two most famous of all fifties robots.
Movie Review: Romance isn't Dead, it's just different.
Summary: 3 Stars
In a world in which romance seems dead, in which one must bicker and fight over the details of each specific act on a date; dinner, show, holding hands, a kiss, more?, a few men have found an alternitive to this cold, harsh reality - they own female androids, machines which can introduce into their lives that almost graceful, elegant sense of romance as envisioned by golden-age films.The problem, such machines are no longer produced. When the android owned by the male lead of this feature (Ben Johnson) malfunctions, he is faced with a decision between the bitter reality of life, or an extreme risk, hiring a mercenary to break into an abandoned android factory in a forbidden zone in order to replace his synthetic beloved. Is romance worth a risk of life?
When this mercenary turns out to be a Mustang-racing, red-headed, well-shaped Melanie Griffith, might our hero find real love?
While, as Science Fiction, this feature may seem more camp than anything else, its special effects on-par with many low-budget films from the 1980s, at its heart there is a true romance story, a story about people, well performed by the two lead actors, which makes up for many of the films other shortcomings.
Well worth your time.
Movie Review: the mediocre world of the future
Summary: 3 Stars
Cherry 2000. I'll make it short and sweet. The movie is a renter for most people. It has some decent action sequences and some cool moments, but nothing spectacular. It's a good 80's movie to watch on a boring summer afternoon, when your feeling nostalgic. Otherwise this movie is not sci fi enough for the hardcore sci fi guy. Not intellectual enough for the brainy movie people, and not dramatic or invovlving for the emotional people. It just kinda hovers on the mediocre. If i were to express my feelings for this movie in one word i would use "good" or perhaps a simple grunt "eh." accompanied by a shoulder shrug. Rent before you buyMovie Review: Entertaining SciFI
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an amusing science fiction flick set in the lawless western US sometime in the future. Like most SciFi, you have to accept the premises. Once you do, it's a ball. Melanie Griffith is good as always, and other actors do a fine job as people or as robots. Her souped-up Mustang is a good actor too.