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Bicentennial Man (1999)

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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.

25

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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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 337,585

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Movie Info

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

PG, 2 hr. 11 min.

Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Nicholas Kazan

Jan 15, 2002

Buena Vista Pictures

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All Critics (107) | 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.

November 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
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It's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Bicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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It's a step in the right direction for both its star and maker.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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It's a bit strange, and strained.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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This tin man has a heart, but his movie needs a pulse.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Film about robot who wants to be human is so-so.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.

January 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

October 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

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.

December 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
Sight and Sound

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!'

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer

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.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

April 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comments (2)
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Audience Reviews for Bicentennial Man

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, 2010
ajv2688

Super 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, 2010
michael e.
Michael Edwards

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