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Fast Times at Hero High (2003)
so, so
Take a handful of clichés and scenes from a couple of teen sex movies and have them reenacted by young superheroes and you've got it figured out. Hardly inventive or humorous. It's been done with everything you can think of. Saturday morning cartoons, puppets, cute furry creatures, the list goes on and on.
Note to young film makers: The genre has been covered, move on. What is surprising is that a film with so much sexual innuendo was filmed at Biola University, a private conservative Christian institution. Anyone who has ever been on campus will recognize Sutherland Auditorium and Common Grounds. It makes you wonder what kind of superpowers were used to quietly film this without administrative permission. Perhaps the director and script writers learned the Jedi mind trick. Ooh, there's a gimmick left out of this 'gem', Luke Skywalker convincing the principal he doesn't need a hall pass. See, what I'm saying, it's not all that hard to come up with this kind of stuff.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Be prepared to drown in shallow water
There is a common element found in romance novels which causes most readers to disregard them immediately and that is "sentimentality for sentimentality's sake". The characters act passionately and are full of emotion for not apparent reason. Perhaps if the reader knew why the characters acted so wantonly it would be more believable. But instead of providing any true emotion, it's easier to label critics as "unromanitc".
Speilberg's latest "masterpiece" puffs itself up to be full of depth and meaning. Unfortunately it's not there. Watch for the scene that features a mural of the Emperor with no clothes. A.I. more closely parallels that fairy tale than Pinnochio. The metaphysical understanding expressed in this film is insulting. Perhaps if the movie would have ended 20 minutes earlier I wouldn't have hated it so much. Hollywood's answer for a Godless salvation is getting very trite.
A.I. is beautifully made and the acting is tremendous, too bad such skill is wasted on invisible thread.