Jacob Scharping

It’s a Pop Culture open letter to AI. It has great production value, better-than-alot story (even if much dialogue wasn’t ultimately to my taste) and Jennifer Lopez to deliver it. It could have been much worse than it is. The big battle scene was worth the whole movie to me!

Three stars on its own, one star for my nostalgia, and another star for not being retroactively problematic. While the jokes are slow and a bit slapstick, and nostalgia plays a large part in my appreciation, this movie is a spiritual precursor to the comedy styles of the Dumb and Dumber and Hot Rod’s guilty pleasure of watching people act like idiots and the absurdist approach to securing a laugh like in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. It also exhibits the similar self awareness of Wayne’s World. While it may not match the same tier as these examples, it blends them in a charming early eighties kind of way. It’s not even deeply socially problematic like many older movies can be. Not everyone cares about that, but it’s worth mentioning.