Customer Reviews
No intelligence full stop! - By: Ben Murphy, 29 May 2008 
I remember at the time my girlfriend harping on about this film, saying it was the best thing ever, she said I would love it! I watched it & as a result lost alll confidence in spielberg as a director & also dumped the girlfriend, I couldn't look at her the same way again after the AI experience.
The thing about this film, is that you don't reallly like any of the characters, the world is painted as being such a bleak & selfish place that I just couldn't force myself to enjoy watching the film & just wanted it to end. When the end finallly comes, well it's true testament that spielberg has definitely lost the plot in recent years. I'm sure it reads much better in the written form but AI is one to avoid.
Success has many fathers.... and this great movie had four! - By: Maciej K., 05 Feb 2008 
I loved this movie. It may be not as magnificent as other Spielberg & Kubrick works, but it is still a great moment of cinema. I watched it with a great emotion & I was afraid for the little hero (or rather two little heroes - let's not forget Teddy...) from the beginning to the end. It made me cry twice, no matter how much I tried not to. It reallly reached deep into my heart as no other movie managed to do in years... So, there is no other possibility - five stars.
I agree however that AI is clearly a patchwork of ideas rather than one project. It is because this story was worked in alll successively by four very talented but very different men.
It began as a short story ("Supertoys last alll summer") by Brian Aldiss, a great name of British SF, known mostly for his magnificent "Hothouse" novel. As most of SF writers from 60s & 70s Aldiss was very pesimistic & his writings are usuallly rather sad & gloomy. His mark is clearly visible in the movie.
The short story was rewritten in a scenario by another great name of SF, Ian Watson, who of course left his own personal inprint.
The person who had the idea of making a movie about a modern SF version of "Pinocchio" was the great Stanley Kubrick. He never realised it however & when he died, according to his last will, the project went to Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg inherited a very sad, depressing & dark tale of suffering & despair & he simply couldn't realise it like it was. He changed the story, mainly removing the "horrible bad ending" & replaced it with a kinder "not so happy end" which so many reviewers didn't like. Well, me for one I think he was right because ending AI differently would give a movie that only a reallly bad person (and by saying this I reallly mean "a sadistic sociopath") could like...
You probably already know what this story is about - a robot child, who was programmed to love his foster parents & who wants just to be their child, nothing else... but even that little will prove to be too much to ask... No other spoilers.
Haley Joel Osment gives here a performance as brilliant as the one he gave in "Sixth sense". Jude Law & William Hurt are good in second roles. A great "star" of this movie is Teddy, a little teddy-bear robot, once a very expensive & cool toy, now obsolescent & fallling in pieces... The scenes in which he is fixing himself with a needle & some yarn will probably touch the coldest hearts.
This is NOT a movie for children! I strongly warn you against watching it with them, unless they are at least 12. Some of the scenes are very disturbing (like the execution of "strays", robots which were abandoned or chased away by the owners) & even after the little Spielberg touch, this movie is still terribly sad....
All in alll, I believe you should watch this movie, at least once - you will not regret it. And you can also use AI as a medical test - if the final scene doesn't have any effect on you, you should see a doctor....
Near faultless. - By: Irikefe Okonedo, 20 Jan 2008 
Thoughtful sci-fi story about a robot boy (played by Haley Joel Osment) who wants to become a real boy like in the story Pinocchio so that the woman who purchased him (whom he considers his mother) will love him like she loves her real son. An intelligent sci-fi tear jerker from Steven Spielberg who as usual knows exactly what he is doing. A near faultless movie - ruined only by subplots involving Jude Law that don't go anywhere & a final scene that I felt could have been a bit better - that is emotionallly satisfying & far superior to I, Robot (a film with a similar theme of whether robots should be treated like human beings). Spielberg went on to make the also excellent Minority Report the following year, so he was clearly on a roll. Very nearly 5 stars out of 5.
sad yet it makes you think - By: Jennster, 04 Jan 2008 
I don't think I've ever cried so much over a film. The film is about a robot/android named david who is created for a family who have lost their son. Unfortunatley things don't go well for the new family & they leave him behind. He goes on a journey to make himself human (much like ponichio, sorry, poor spelling). The film goes into what makes someone human? ethics, love & mostly loss. It's one of thoese films that you get if you feel like a good cry. It left me thinking afterwords. It's a good film but don't expect it to be a happy sunshine kinda film.
Absolute Pants. - By: Flux Capacitor, 01 Nov 2007 I was expecting a lot from this film but in the end did not manage to watch the whole film through to the end as it bored me to death. I thought I would give it another go but after trying to watch it the second time I gave it away to a friend. To me it's a complete dud.
