Heartbeeps

The first two minutes are easily the best. Some weird robot cop thing blows up a tree stump. The rest of the movie is like an asperger's love story between ugly robots who spend most of their time talking about efficiency. The entire plot is set into motion because they want to collect data about trees. Great.

A beautiful love story about autism disguised as a satire about robots. Right? I kind of want to believe Kaufman was treating this as a piece of performance art, but that would probably be giving it too much credit. Not campy enough to qualify as an ironic laugh riot like The Apple or The Room, but rather a film so purely, inexplicably ill-conceived on every possible level that one has no choice but to watch with a kind of grim fascination.

Kaufman’s presence in an absurd but abjectly boring robot romance makes sense given his anti-comedy, life-as-performance-art sensibilities, but it’s staggering how much other talent is involved in a project so singularly misguided. The Crimebuster’s introduction is silly enough to inspire hope for occasional laughs, but then it’s just an hour of robots walking through a forest discussing efficiency and running out of power, which is enough to drain the battery life of any audience.

But Stan Winston and John Williams were here.

This film had an interesting premise but it goes nowhere with it. The dialog is boring and 99% of the attempts to make one laugh fails. The leads try their best with this weak material. The supporting robot cast consists of a R2-D2 ripoff and a painfully unfunny comedian robot. Overall this is a wonderful disaster.

Would that this were a better movie, we could use it to display the late Andy Kaufman's genius. Instead it's a sort of tribute to a side of him not quite ambitious but not quite in control. A lost chance at real magic.

surprisingly emotional performances for the cast, wrapped up in metal

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