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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 12124
Released: March 5, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Description of A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition):
History will place an asterisk next to A.I. as the film Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But let the record also show that Kubrick--after developing this project for some 15 years--wanted Steven Spielberg to helm this astonishing sci-fi rendition of Pinocchio, claiming (with good reason) that it veered closer to Spielberg's kinder, gentler sensibilities. Spielberg inherited the project (based on the Brian Aldiss short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long") after Kubrick's death in 1999, and the result is an astounding directorial hybrid. A flawed masterpiece of sorts, in which Spielberg's gift for wondrous enchantment often clashes (and sometimes melds) with Kubrick's harsher vision of humanity, the film spans near and distant futures with the fairy-tale adventures of an artificial boy named David (Haley Joel Osment), a marvel of cybernetic progress who wants only to be a real boy, loved by his mother in that happy place called home.
Echoes of Spielberg's Empire of the Sun are clearly heard as young David, shunned by his trial parents and tossed into an unfriendly world, is joined by fellow "mecha" Gigolo Joe (played with a dancer's agility by Jude Law) in his quest for a mother-and-child reunion. Parallels to Pinocchio intensify as David reaches "the end of the world" (a Manhattan flooded by melted polar ice caps), and a far-future epilogue propels A.I. into even deeper realms of wonder, even as it pulls Spielberg back to his comfort zone of sweetness and soothing sentiment. Some may lament the diffusion of Kubrick's original vision, but this is Spielberg's A.I. (complete with one of John Williams's finest scores), a film of astonishing technical wizardry that spans the spectrum of human emotions and offers just enough Kubrick to suggest that humanity's future is anything but guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Intellegent 
2009-11-11 - This is a very good movie. One Of Haley Joel Osment's best performance. I Recommend it for everyone
A Film for Some of Us 
2009-11-04 - I don't know for whom the film was intended nor which audience it is actually gratifying. Certainly it is not for everyone. Technically, it is a fine demonstration of what can be done today to make a large screen shimmer with all the action of a three ring circus. The acting is suitable to the theme and the characters involved in the story, "live" and "robotic". Given the film literacy of the creators, many sources are acknowledged within the film and many more are knowingly alluded to; this is not plagiarism, it is fair use in maintaining traditions as well as seeking to give them a fresh look and thus perpetuate them. Perhaps, it should be made a family viewing project so that various differing perspectives can be brought to bear to elicit meaning from the film. Just don't make it the only film available for the evening so that it is a case of watching it or nothing.
So totally awesome!
2009-10-14 - I love spielberg movies, but this one has got to be one of his best ever. I can watch this movie over and over. I always cry when Monica leaves David in the woods. Totally unexpected ending. AI is my favourite film ever.
typical spielberg, not a kubrick movie
2009-10-06 - I love that Steven Spielberg made this Stanley Kubrick movie. It's wonderfully emotional when you get down to the basic story of a child's need for the love of his mother to feel complete, regardless of his design (human or not).
What I didn't like, and what still separates Kubrick from Spielberg, was the typically repetitive way in which Spielberg always feels that he needs to explain everything to the (stupid) audience along the way. Kubrick does not need to explain, we get it. And if we don't, it makes for good discussion or the need to watch again.
Perfect example is how David clearly calls Monica "Monica" before reading the seven words, then calling her "Mommy" afterwards. That's totally unnecessary. Or the way Jigolo Joe holds his finger up for us all to see the blood coming from his customer. Or the irrational change of attitude from Henry regarding his excitement of bringing David home to his later resentment of the "robot" when the mother takes to him (wasn't that his intention?). Or the assumption that if a programmed robot can love, then it can hate (how? it's programmed to love).
There are umpteen examples of this. Steven just needs to give his audience a little more credit, and think things through a little better as to not just push the story along in a convenient manner so we can get to its conclusion. He did add alot of Kubrick elements and true Kubrick fans will know what they are.
Overall, a great film, although you have to take interest in the subject matter to appreciate it. I don't think the general (stupid) audiences, who just want horror and blood these days, want to take the time to appreciate what Steven has done here.
Sci-fi future 
2009-10-05 - It is a nice movie of the future of human intelligence and humanity bounodaries.
Also rated "All ages", a work is kid-unsuitable for lovemaking and stone-throwing.
