Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 60
Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 18
Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
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If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins suspect that they do not have an ordinary robot on their hands. Andrew seems capable of expressing emotion and generating original thoughts, and the
Dec 17, 1999 Wide
Jan 15, 2002
Buena Vista Pictures
All Critics (108) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (60) | DVD (13)
Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering.
It's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.
It's a step in the right direction for both its star and maker.
Part of the deep appeal of this film is its undercurrent of yearning beneath surface ironies.
By relegating the story to a disappointing level of superficiality and never attempting to venture more than skin-deep into some intriguing themes, Bicentennial Man comes across like recycled, diluted Star Trek.
[Robin William's] most grandiose holiday greeting yet.
Film about robot who wants to be human is so-so.
...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.
Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road.
The film swiftly settles into an unevenly paced, episodic structure, unsure whether it's a family saga, a sci-fi drama or a children's comedy.
Virtually every emotion, motivation, idea, character and plot point in the movie is flat and perfunctory -- except for those that carry the invisible subtitle, 'Cry, dammit!'
You long for [Williams] to break the metal mold, if only for a minute, to remind you that you are watching the best improvisational comedian of this millennium.
Becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.
This movie sucks the life out of you, turning you into a robot. Seriously I am tired of all these robot movies where we're supposed to feel bad for them, try to make them more human, etc. And Williams is more than annoying trying to play one of these annoying robots. I didn't find this touching or heartwarming, I
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
hands down, Robin Williams best film. the character Andrew is likable and you feel all the things he goes through, the pain joy and all other emotions. The film has a very touching story how he loves all the people he serves and how he feels pain for losing them and how he can't die. one line Andrew says truely shows
September 19, 2010Super Reviewer
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