Sex counselor to the animals, and Dr. Do-Little-Too.
You know, Eddie Murphy's becoming the king of the franchises.
Yeah, next Beverly Hills Cop arrests the nutty professor.
I propose that we build a robot child who can love, a robot child who will genuinely
love the parent or parents it imprints on with a love that will never end.
Lifelike robots with artificial intelligence are commonplace in the world of the future,
but scientist William Hurt wants to create a new model in Steven Spielberg's AI.
I'm Richard Roper.
And I'm Roger Ebert.
AI was in development for years by the legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who passed it on
to Steven Spielberg but still gets a credit and a dedication.
In the future, global warming has flooded many cities, but the United States still prospers
thanks to its lead in developing intelligent robots called Mechas.
Francis O'Connor and Sam Robards play a couple whose son is in a coma.
The husband brings home a cute little Mecha named David as a consolation, but at first
his wife is enraged.
I'll return him to Cybertronics first thing in the morning.
It's gone.
Good.
I mean, Henry, did you see his face?
He's so real.
But he's not.
No, he's not.
David is played by Haley Joel Osment from The Sixth Sense, who proves once again he's
one of the best young actors in movie history.
Little David looks real, but he's a machine inside, and yet he desperately wants to belong.
David has read Pinocchio, and he thinks that somewhere there's a blue fairy who will transform
him into a real boy.
He goes on a quest with Joe, a gigolo Mecha played by Jude Law.
The blue fairy Mecha, orga man or woman?
Woman.
Woman.
I know women.
They sometimes ask for me by name.
I know all about women, about as much as there is to know.
No two are ever alike, and after they've met me, no two are ever the same.
It's uncanny the way AI mirrors the structure of Kubrick's famous 2001.
Man events a new tool, the tool makes a visionary journey possible, and then mysterious creatures
create a familiar environment to study the traveler, who in this case is the tool instead
of the tool's makers.
The film is filled with visual wonders and astonishing special effects.
I'm giving a thumbs up for sure, and yet somehow AI, like David, doesn't have a heart.
He wants us to care about a character who is essentially, let's face it, just a computer
program.
The test of any artificial intelligence is when the computer convinces you it's human.
When David spends 2,000 years on hold, I was looking at a computer glitch, not a little
boy.
Well, I like this movie a lot, but I think the problem is that it tries to have a heart
when it shouldn't.
To be more honest, probably to Kubrick's original vision, and I think Spielberg does try to
respect that.
There's a certain chilliness and starkness to the story.
I don't want to give away too much here, but then he has to go for that golden glow moment
at the end, toward the end.
I know what you mean, because Kubrick, I think, would have been a little more astringent.
He was sometimes charged with not having a heart in his movies, that it was all brain,
but I think in this case, what we're talking about is an artificial brain, and there's
a little bit of a problem in the fact that this little boy isn't a real little boy, and
he's never going to be a little boy, and we know that, and he doesn't, and so we're not
on the same page.
There are moments early on where I thought this might be like a horror movie on the level
of The Shining, that this kid wasn't quite wired in the right way, and that he was going
to go psycho, and that might have been interesting as well, but there was a moment in this movie
where it should have ended, and it didn't, and it kept going, and I thought that that
diminished it.
Also, there's some inconsistencies with the characters.
I mean, the little boy is supposed to be the only one of these mechas who has the ability
to love, but the other ones do seem to have a lot of emotions.
Jude Law, his character as Joe, doesn't have that love imprint, but he does seem to have
the cynicism microchip.
You are neither flesh nor blood.
You are not a dog or a cat or a canary.
You were designed and built specific like the rest of us, and you are alone now only
because they tired of you, or replaced you with a younger model, or were displeased with
something you said or broke.
They made us too smart, too quick, and too many.
This is a wild movie.
There are some frightening scenes in here, and as you mentioned, some great visuals.
I mean, some of the best effects I've ever seen where we see something like New York
City half underwater, and it really looks like New York City is underwater.
You know, I want to go back a little bit to what you said about the end of the movie.
I think it kind of goes off the track a little bit with that strange fantasy about his hanging
up with the blue fairy, and yet I don't want to get hung up on that because this is a movie
that has some amazing things in it, and as I was sitting there, there was a time, maybe
at about the hour and a half, Mark, when I thought this is the best movie of the year.
I think that maybe, you know, it just, it should have been a little more true to its
original impetus, and not try to get into the sentimental stuff, but still.
Our disappointment is based on...
It's a very good movie.
Yeah, I mean, the fact that I think we're both a little bit disappointed, but we like
it a lot is because we thought it could have been a masterpiece.
Later in the show, Eddie Murphy not only talks to the animals, but becomes their sex therapist
in Doctor Dolittle 2.
How would you like to meet the mania dreams?
You're real cute, but I don't go interspecies.
Coming up next, Vin Diesel and several other diesels star in The Fast and the Furious.
Are you ready for the truth?
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Hey, you're not the pizza guy.
It is salad, kid.
We're on a mission.
At ease, folks.
We're responding to a distress call from your bedroom.
That's nice carpeting.
Excuse me.
Whoa, walnut, cherry, oak.
You guys got more woods in here than my golf bag.
People, you deserve better.
Bedroom expressions, good stuff, good prices.
It's nice, huh?
See, the dresser's oak, the bed's oak, picking up a theme here.
So, what's up with you, man?
I'm just waiting for Toretto.
You better get in line.
You sure?
Yeah, I'm standing next to it.
Paul Walker is Brian, a rebel with a chip on his shoulder and highlights in his hair
in the Fast and the Furious, an excruciatingly familiar mishmash of howlingly bad dialogue
and overblown chase and race scenes in the not-so-great tradition of Point Break and
Stone Cold.
If you remember that one, Walker plays an undercover cop who infiltrates a team of hard-living
motorheads in order to bring down their legendary leader.
Vin Diesel is Dominic, who rules the world of illegal drag racing in Los Angeles.
So check it out.
It's like this.
I lose, winner takes my car clean and clear.
But if I win, I take the cash and I take the respect.
With all the firepower under the hoods of these tricked-up cars, I'm figuring these
guys are getting about two miles to the gallon.
Shut up!
Now, I love that Brian has a laptop to guide him, even as his car is going faster than
a Cessna.
Now, of course, the kingpin in movies like this always has a little sister for the cop
to fall in love with, which, of course, will cause him to lose his edge.
As the fetching Mia, Jordana Brewster is as flawless as a mannequin and just about as
animated.
There's a problem.
What's that?
You need to get some sleep, and you definitely, definitely need a shower.
You don't expect a movie like this to be steeped in realism, but I've seen speed racer
cartoons that were more believable.
The streets here are often conveniently deserted for the extended race scenes that play like
video game sequences, complete with this relentless pounding music.
Where are these criminals really that dangerous?
As best as I could tell, they spend tens of thousands of dollars to soup up their cars
in order to steal stuff like DVD players from trucks.
The Fast and the Furious?
I don't know.
I think the Dumb and the Reckless is more like it.
I really like this movie.
I think it's in the great tradition of summer drive-in movies.
It goes back to movies like Death Race 2000 and Grand Theft Auto, and it is so much better
than a movie like Last Summer's Gone in 60 Seconds.
It has interesting characters.
Vin Diesel has something going for him, I think.
It has utterly ridiculous scenes.
I love the fact that in L.A. there was no traffic and no cops, which we know of course
is the way it really is in L.A., and I just felt that it got exactly what it wanted to
get done.
It just kind of delivered this kind of summer exploitation mentality in a clever way instead
of a dumb way.
I'm thinking between this and Tomb Raider that you're going after the job that David
Manning, the fictional critic who likes all these movies, is going after.
You are being-
I'll stand behind both of those films.
You have to.
Pauline Kael said, if we cannot enjoy great trash, there is-
She said, what'd she say?
I like great trash, too.
The movies are so rarely great art, she said, that if we can't enjoy great trash, why should
we go?
I like great trash.
I've given thumbs up to movies that other people think, oh my God, that's a bunch of
garbage, but this thing, even for what it's trying to do-
You have to have the trash-o-meter.
Thumbs up for this movie, thumbs down for Mummy Returns.
Even the drag racing scenes, I mean, it's just the music keeps playing in the same way.
It sounds just like a video game, and they're going straight.
That's an ironic point.
They're hitting a little, they're hitting those little rocket booster things, and then they
go faster.
What's interesting about that?
It's a little satirical point that they want you to think it's like a video game.
So you're saying they were aware, they were making a bad movie, and they were having fun.
They weren't aware they were making a bad movie.
They knew they were doing that with the music.
They did make a bad movie.
That was a bad act.
Okay, coming up next, Eddie Murphy is drafted into a woodland army in Dr. Dolittle 2.
Sure, I got rabies, I could bite somebody, but I can only do so much.
And looking ahead to next week's openings, Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez are star-crossed
lovers in Crazy Beautiful.
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Oh, no thank you.
I've eaten already.
Hey, the beaver offers you a fish.
You take the fish.
The god-beaver, who is the godfather of the forest, asks Eddie Murphy a favor he can't
refuse, and Dr. Doolittle, too.
Evil timber tycoons want to cut down the trees, and the animals, also including Joy the raccoon,
can only be saved by the veterinarian who can talk to the animals.
Doolittle discovers a female bear of a rare species on the land and recruits Archie the
circus bear to mate with her, because bad guys won't be able to disturb this land if
it harbors a protected species.
What I'm proposing to you is I'd like to take you back to where your ancestors roamed,
get you out in the woods, and teach you to be a real bear.
Look, I like the bear I am, okay?
I'm famous.
Look, have you been to the gift shop?
I have my own beanie baby.
If you do this, I promise you'll be the most famous bear in all the world.
Bigger than Pooh.
That's Steve Zahn as the voice of Archie, and he's the funniest thing in the movie,
as a showbiz bear who hates the idea of living in the woods with all the bugs and bad weather.
But Doolittle is persuasive, and Archie meets his blind date, Ava.