SnoopyStyle
Ben (Fisher Stevens) has been reduced to selling toy copies of Johnny Five on the street corners. Sandy Banatoni (Cynthia Gibb) is a associate from Simpson toy department who runs across one of the tiny Johnny Fives. She orders for more toys which Ben is incapable of making by himself. Hustler Fred Ritter (Michael McKean) insinuates himself into the deal. He borrows from a loan shark to rent out a rundown place across from a giant bank. Little do they know that diamond thieves are trying to break into the bank through their rundown place. The thieves try to run them out. Then Johnny Five arrives from Newton and Stephanie's Montana ranch to help Ben build his toys.It's a scaled-back sequel to the cute original. That explains the loss of the lead actors and relocate shooting to Toronto. Ally Sheedy only has a voice message. On the other hand, Fisher Stevens returns with the racially insensitive character. The movie is not only lower quality. It is more mean-spirited without the cute Newton and Stephanie romance. It's stupider. Johnny Five still has a bit of charm but the franchise is no longer fun.
tdrish
The original Short Circuit found Number 5, our beloved military robot, running from the same company that made him, because he was afraid that they were going to take him apart, and take the life that was magically given to him. This time, our hero finds himself in a city, and my main complaint with this sequel is the absence of Ally Sheedy. Still, I would say that this is a fair sequel, a needless sequel, but this was a thankfully discontinued franchise. Number 5 ( now requesting to be called Johnny 5, since he feels he has human emotions, he wants a real name.) gets involved with gangs, bad people ( who want to sell him ), and jewel thieves. It steers clear off course from our original sweet story line, but nevertheless puts together some solid performances from our familiar faces from the first movie, including Fisher Stevens and his funny accent! Also, to make matters worse, Short Circuit 2 has half the laughs as the first Short Circuit. It's probably one of the reasons why Hollywood didn't make any more of these, just because a movie is great, that doesn't always mean that it needs a sequel. Sequels are for films that have unresolved issues, Short Circuit was fine the way it ended. Hollywood's need to cash in on senseless sequels was very bad in the 80's, and this film was living proof. All in all, Short Circuit 2 remains to be an enjoyable family feature to this day, it limits its profanity to a minimum, so I would recommend it. I just won't praise it.
FlashCallahan
Ben the walking stereotype is in New York selling little editions of Number Five.There he meets one of Spinal Tap, and they go into business with Gibb to make more of the little Number fives. This all covers the sub-plot involving a jewel heist where some old boy called Oscar has hired two thugs to raid a bank.The only problem is, the building where these criminals were working has been taken over by Ben. And then all of a sudden, Number Five arrives and causes all sorts of xenophobic hilarity.Oh how I nearly smiled.....This was rife during the late eighties and the early nineties, a film that wasn't expected to succeed as well as it did (sister act, Wayne's world, Beethoven), did do great business and garnered a sequel.Some were okay, Bill and Ted delivered a good sequel, but this one fell into the category of great idea to begin with, but this is just scraping the barrel.Stevens does what he can with the material, but there is none, it's just a case of Johnny five doing what he did in the first movie, copying things from the TV, radio, and commercials, to comic effect.It was endearing the first time, but this just grates and annoys.There the token scene near the end where we think Johnny Five may get killed, but hen he goes all gold plated at the end.It's a dud movie, Sheedy can only be bothered to do a voice cameo, and it lacks any charm the original had.
giuseppelospalluti
Film sympathetic but nothing Almighty. One of many'80s films, very cheerful and ironic that ironizzava the saga of robocop. Film certainly for the family created specifically for the saga of movie about robots much in vogue in anni'80. The robots continue to pleasure, even though in reality do not have a well-known commercial use. One of the recent film about robots "Trasformers" has had some success even though the robotic charm is quite declined in recent years. The'80s were a period full of ideas even if the film fumettistici and many were absurd. This film for this period was suimpatico. Try to be more lenient dui towards films that period starting with horror films. They were from laugh but had a certain charisma.
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