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03/21/01
Bicentennial Man (1999)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:35
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
Synopsis: Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson
Director: Chris Columbus
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06/24/06
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12/06/05
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04/09/05
...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.
01/02/05
Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road.
10/23/03
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05/20/03
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02/08/03
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12/08/02
Top CriticThe film swiftly settles into an unevenly paced, episodic structure, unsure whether it's a family saga, a sci-fi drama or a children's comedy.
12/02/02
Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering.
11/06/02
Virtually every emotion, motivation, idea, character and plot point in the movie is flat and perfunctory -- except for those that carry the invisible subtitle, 'Cry, dammit!'
10/15/02
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09/18/02
You long for [Williams] to break the metal mold, if only for a minute, to remind you that you are watching the best improvisational comedian of this millennium.
06/05/02
Becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.
04/03/02
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03/24/02
Top CriticIt's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.
03/19/02
Best left on the shelf to collect dust.
03/08/02
A shiny houehold robot becomes an exemplar of the spiritual practice of kindness in this film that must be taken to heart.
03/05/02
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