Cherry 2000 (1987)
Action | Sci-Fi

In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. In this “fun” (Leonard Maltin) futuristic sci-fi adventure, Melanie Griffith is “delightful and unflappable” (Variety) as a futuristic bounty hunter on a mission to find a robot replicate of rich man’s shot-circuited wife.

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell (David Andrews, Fight Club) finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 (Pamela Gidley, The Maze), has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson (Griffith) to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of The Zone, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!

While this movie has the elements that Mad Max had it comes nowhere near the excitement of the action scenes. The Cherry 2000 love robot is funny though.

User Comment: David Wood (obsidian-3) • I will not attempt to describe this movie. It would be fruitless. You may at first be frustrated by the seemingly inept invocation of all the tried and true cliches of the "genre" - from Mad Max to its weirder post-apocalyptic cousins. But this is not Circuitry Man in reverse - it is much, much stranger. By the time the polka-dotted bikini-wearing ex-girlfriend of the hero is playing hostess at the disney-esque bubble-dome camp of the desert-dwelling homicidal outlaw gang... oh, never mind. By the way, Melanie Griffith was much better looking before lip surgery. Almost hot, in fact. But rest assured, this is a work of genius, exposing a deep understanding of the rift between genders during the height of the supposedly post-sexual-liberation 1980's, an almost sublime sense of humor about sexual alienation and most of all, the erotic link between women and cars in American culture is finally completely laid bare.

In fact, this movie is so profoundly subversive that it could only be made under cover of shlock. Do not be fooled by what seems like coke-addled acting and tourette-syndrome editing. This film is high art. Especially the part where the robot says "is that your hand?" Stay up late and watch it on TBS tonight! And take notes!

Summary: Weird sleeper sci-fi B-movie an unintentional work of genius.

--- JOYA - No SDH ---

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