Reviews

I agree with the other reviewers: Nailing Your Wife was great. Unfortunately, everything else went downhill.

The recipe that worked for NYW was a buildup of innuendo, then a gag, then cut. It was clearly PG: nothing explicit, no profanity, no "action". The others don't follow this pattern. Some are raunchy or gross, in some the gag isn't funny, and in most the video goes on well beyond the point where it should have ended.

I first watched NYW a long time ago, when it first came out and before the others were available. Last night I finally got around to watching the others, and not a single one lived up to the standard set by NYW. I wouldn't recommend any of them.

Cute, some humor, some romance, pretty reasonable mythos, nice scenery. Could use some polish, but we all agreed that it was far better than we expected from the blurb. Looks like a pilot, hope it gets picked up.

After I rented the film, I bought and read the book. Unusually, I preferred the movie. The bad guys in the movie are buffoons, and everything stays comedic. The bad guys in the book are nastier and more offensive, and for me that distracted from the comedy.

This is a very human story, and for all that Asimov wrote many fine stories on many subjects, he was never very good at portraying humans. After watching this movie I went back and reread the short story. At the end of the story, well, Andrew still "felt" like a robot. At the end of the movie, he "feels" like a human. That's the whole point, isn't it?

Near zero plot, near zero dialog. Remember all the scenes in Alien of people wandering through slimy corridors trying to avoid the monster? This entire movie is like that, only with an uninteresting monster and uninteresting characters.