The wisdom of minimum age ratings for films is debatable, but some films would be well advised to attach a maximum age rating. You guessed it, this is one of them. Kids might like it, but I would find it difficult to believe that anyone with an eye for good movies could find anything to praise in this over-long, sentimental story of a little robot-boy (ever so cute) with the obligatory bit for a dog (here in the shape of a mechanised teddy bear that walks and talks and never runs out of power, even after 2000 years ... those were some Duracells!) who was dumped in the woods by his loving mummy and spent the next two millennia searching for Pinocchio's Blue Faery and his adopted mother. The story sucks, and this is aggravated by the dreadful music; the camera work also fails to add lustre to this duller-than-dishwater "adventure". It goes without saying that advertised exploration of the thin boundaries between the human and the other is no more than that: advertising. The special effects are good.
Review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence
