A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Starring: Osment, Haley Joel and Law, Jude

It is the near future. The polar ice caps have melted as a result of global warming leaving many coastal cities underwater. Man has created machines that are aware of their own existence to help us with the increasing environmental damage that we are doing. One of these machines, a young boy, is the first robot programmed with emotion. Now his "love" is overpowering his robotic programming. He seeks answers as to whether he can ever be more than just a machine.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 667068988529
• Release Date: January 2002
• Rating: PG13
• Publisher: Paramount-Sds
• Director: Spielberg, Stephen
• Starring: Osment, Haley Joel, Law, Jude
• Runtime: 2 hours, 24 minutes
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

This could have been great.

This movie is based on a screen story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. What happened? Popular actors, a big budget, a whelming director. I think this suffers from the same syndrome that “Star Wars” episode one was affected by. It is way too cutesy and like a dream (nightmare) if you get painted into a corner, just add a new element. Each actor alone was great with the elements that they were given; however, as a whole, they never jelled. One thing that saves this film is the inclusion of the DVD goodies. The making of the film and the theory behind the film are more interesting than the film. If you’d like to Gigolo Joe, then that is primarily because they allowed Jude Law to put a little bit of his slant on the character. In the final a-n-a-l-y-s-i-s, this is a tearjerker with no redeeming social value.