Short Circuit (1986)

Short Circuit (1986)

Directed by: John Badham

Starring: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens

I really, really hate this movie. In fact, I hate pretty much every one of those movies from the 80’s that my generation is supposed to have fond feelings for, like The Goonies and Gremlins and things like that. In general, movies from the 80’s were pretty much shit. Especially movies about annoying robots poorly emulating the Three Stooges.

A robotics corporation has invented five super army robots designed to be the most effective war machines of all time. One of them gets struck by lightning, and suddenly he “comes alive”, which means that he doesn’t want to kill things anymore and that he’d rather recite obnoxious catch phrases and play with animals. The company sends out two of the creators of the robot to get it back, but instead they become friends with it and fall in love with the girl the robot was hanging out with. FUCK YOU, SHORT CIRCUIT!

I guess if there’s one redeeming thing about this movie, it’s that the Johnny 5 robot is actually a pretty well-done puppet. They abused it to make it the single most annoying robot in the history of film, but it is pretty well-done. And that’s the only good thing you’ll ever catch me saying about Short Circuit, the movie that makes god cry.