Part of the deep appeal of this film is its undercurrent of yearning beneath surface ironies.
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Bicentennial Man (1999)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:35
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson
Director: Chris Columbus
Reviews for Bicentennial Man
Like crossing the Sahara to get to the water, this film has a lot of dry spells and the prize may not be worth the trip.
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Bicentennial Man misses the big picture.
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Columbus ... has a suffocating sense of family values in which all problems are plot-deep and there is no familial crisis ... that can't be fixed with a Motown sing-along.
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The film is cute, saccarhine, overlong, at times overbearing...but not completely unpleasant.
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Relies too heavily on the inconsequential silliness that ensues from the robot's simplistic and transparent manner of communicating with the more complex and fallible humans.
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