CompleteMartialArts.com - Short Circuit 2
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Starring: Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston
Directed By: Kenneth Johnson
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Binding: Video On Demand
Release Date: 2008-08-21
Running Time: 111
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1988-07-06
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Summary: Short Circuit 2 - Great Movie
Comment: I loved this movie when I first saw it - too many years ago. Was thrilled when I found it on DVD (at a great price from Amazon) and showed it to my grandkids. They loved it too!. We had a Short Circuit Marathon and watched both 1 and 2. Johnny 5 rocks!
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Summary: wonderful movie
Comment: This movie brings back a lot of memories. Growing up, I went to the theater and watched this film. Same casts of characters as the first one with a few new people in it. Johnny Five is a wonderful example of what a true friend is like. Helps his friend Ben build rebots that would help out his company. Johnny Five also learns the differances of good friends and those who just want to take advantage of others and use him for bad purposes. All in all, this movie rocks!!!!
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Summary: WARNING TO PARENTS - NOT FOR YOUNG KIDS!
Comment: This film should be rated PG-13 due to the prolific swearing in nearly every scene. There were even a couple of sexual references. My 3 year old pulled this off the shelf at the rental store from the family section. He's seen the ads for the upcoming Walle movie and the robot on the cover of this DVD box has a similar look.
While this film might appear at first glance to be a good candidate for family viewing - it isn't. Adult's who liked the first film will probably enjoy this sequel, but keep it out of reach of your young children, unless you'd like to expand their vocabulary!
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Summary: Short Circuit 2 is great family entertainment!
Comment: This is a wonderful film! I think this one is even better than the first one. It's one of those that we can watch again and again. You might want to buy both and make it a night of Short Circuit fun.
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Summary: There needs to be more Johnny 5 in the world
Comment: What to do now there's no more Short Circuit movies to watch? Why was there never a third? And why, apart from Johnny 5, was Fisher Stevens the only original character brought back?
Those were only minor quibbles for a great movie. And the god awful cover art, which the more I look at, the more I hate. But then they could have done worse. It could have been a white background with the two main characters photoshopped in.
I really enjoyed the first Short Circuit movie. The second? Even better. With more fun from Johnny, including even more interaction with Ben (Fisher Stevens), and more fun-ness, including making the toy Johnny 5's dance, and more, Short Circuit betters the first.
I was kinda disappointed that Stephany didn't reappear for the second movie, she was a bit of a miss, and was only mentioned a couple of times, apart from a voice recording - but at least she wasn't completely forgotten about.
What's good about reading other reviewer's ... reviews is that the amount of people is saw this when they were young. I always seem to get introduced to these movies a lot later in life - for example I'm a nearly mid-twenty something and seeing this for the first time. What would it have been like to see it as a child? That, I can only dream about.
Short Circuit 2 pretty much follows on from the first, with Ben now in the big city, trying to sell his toy Johnny's on the street, next to a fake Rolex selling vendor. A toy buyer, Sandy, stumbles across a toy Johnny after it 'escapes' and brings it back. Talk of money is banded about, and next thing Ben knows, he needs to make 1000, in 31 days. With the fake Rolex selling vendor, Fred (Michael McKean) as his partner. But bad guys want to break into a bank to steal some priceless jewels, but how are they going to do it? The rest is predictable, but fun.
Jack Weston appears as one of the bad guys, who befriends Johnny, in order to get him on his side, finding out he is incredibly naive. For any eighties rom-com fan will recognise him from Dirty Dancing, as Max Kellerman. (For anyone who hasn't seen this or Dirty Dancing, boy do you need some education!) Short Circuit 2 actually appears to have been Jack Weston's last movie before he died from lymphoma in 1996.
I'm disappointed there was never another Short Circuit movie. And another one. And another one. And another one. It could have been a great franchise. But what's good is normally best left to a minimum, before it loses its glow. Short Circuit didn't pander to the major franchising deals, the endless mindless sequels, and instead left the world a different place with just the two films.
Now where do I buy a little Johnny 5?
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