CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

deatman9 This is the sequel to the first classic starring Johnny Five. It returns a beloved character Ben as one of the main leads. Everyone does a great job and Johnny 5 is still as hilarious and adorable as ever. The plot is not quite as good or heartwarming but it is still very good and entertaining.This movie is about Johnny 5 who goes to the big city to help his friend benjamin. He has to help him build tiny toy robots but in the mean time Johnny is manipulated by criminals to do their bidding.This movie is good and in a lot of ways its better then the first because you see the robot much more and he is where the humor is.

ANGEL-S Only 4.8 / 10!? Wow, I simply have to stress this as it is such an underrated title here at IMDb. Sometimes you can be seriously misled by vote numbers.Short Circuit 2 was, at least for me, better then original in terms of script writing. Rare thing about sequels, but there it is. Story was more developed, complex, interesting and characters were more explored then in original movie. I liked SC1, but SC2 was more fun to watch. It has past 2 decades since it was released and yesterday I watched it for the first time in my life. It seems to me as it was not 20 years, but more like 100 years difference. Modern movies and TV shows are way colder, stripped down of any human emotions, love and poetic/romantic views on life, that makes you really wonder... have we progressed in a right direction for the past 2 decades? As cheesy as it seems, this title at least had a decent vocabulary (rarity this days) and addressed many complex things about life like love and understanding of human relationships.Animatronics, with all it's 'simplicity' and flaws in comparison to modern CGI, at least had something real (dare to say 'human touch'), that also adds to a whole effect it had left on me. Yes, today we have Transformers movies that look perfect, but one look at Johnny 5 and you can see what ingredient is missing... One thing is for sure, this kind of films are not made any more these days.8 out of 10

elshikh4 Love it ? Not the right word. Adore it ? That's close. Whenever you hear me saying "I love the 1980s" here is one of the reasons why. Actually it's hard to define what is that I'm crazy about here, but let's accept the challenge for the sake of love. First of all : it's everything ! Starting with the character of Johnny Number Five; imagine an electronic E.T with all the sentimentality, genius, and infancy, that speaks fluently also. (Tim Blaney) as his voice was perfect. (Fisher Stevens) as (Ben Jahrvi) got me to memorize his name well because he just amused me utterly, this guy is so talented as an actor and as a comedian, so bad that he didn't receive the credit or the fame he merits, let alone that it was such a rare matter to watch an Indian (or rather an eastern) character in American movie that wasn't meant to be a mean laughingstock, being an intelligent gentle hero without contempt or sarcasm. (Michael McKean) was so nice and charismatic as (Fred Ritter). (Cynthia Gibb) is exceptional as (Sandy), she portrayed the elegant, ingenuous, and smart 80s' girl, there is something ultra-charming about her in this flick that makes her watchable apart. Wanna talk about chemistry between all the cast, that's the movie to remember.Now let me versify a bit about the concept. JN.5 is this kind creature going through totally unkind world. He's soft intellectual person, who deals with evil life very innocently, which afflicted him with its deformity. We clap for how he fights back till he gets even, but forget the big picture. It's not about the machine that wants to be human, it's about a machine that mirrors how inhuman the humans have become. The script provided the movie with all I think : Johnny becomes a TV freak repeating memorable lines from movies and TV shows, Johnny hates his face in the street discovering how he's completely different (great moment by the way), Johnny helps Ben in his love, and the too touching conflict in the end to bear the pain of who thought as friend, and the combat to regain his self heroically, look at him dies like a Christ to relive again.. Just WAW ! There were so many fascinating ideas along the way, on the top of them for sure was the game of songs to locate the imprisoned (Ben) and (Fred), even the fortune cookies' lines were too comic as well.The directing was flawless, and take it from one who doesn't praise any director much. (Kenneth Johnson) made something really that enchanting. There wasn't one scene that you can call bad or so-so. There is a continuous merry feel all over it. Since the first scene at the toy market with the simple music tone it sets a special sweet personality for itself that never misses. (Johnson) was leading the movie as simple adventure however with so much love I suppose which gave it an assured magical touch. Damn, even the best live Disney movies that I can recall didn't reach to this level of being enjoyable, soul-stirring, and never boring after endless times of watching. Still the sequence of Johnny struggling for the rest of his life, walking lamely in the backstreets, bleeding in awful loneliness is one of the most sights that breaks the heart ever captured on film (I cry every time). Also, the finale result of the climactic sequence with Bonny Taylor's I Need a Hero is definitely one of the best climactic sequences I saw in my life. Although this song has been hackneyed so many times through some of the 1980s movies, such as Footloose (1984), Who's Harry Crumb? (1989), but here is the one eloquent use that marvelously clicked. It's disappointing that (Kenneth Johnson), aside from very good TV works, didn't make many cinematic movies, he could've been respectable lovable moviemaker as celebrated as Spielberg, or maybe better.The music score expresses the movie's funny and bright spirit, it was solidly romantic at places, with unforgettable touches like playing Eric Satie's Gymnopedie Nr. 1 while JN.5 was reading in jail; that's priceless. Finally, it's not another great movie, it's the great movie for me. It still delivers the highest times as its power of being cute and effective never seems to end. It's "alive" flick for sure, and one of the 1980s' best. I believe it's a kind of work that doesn't have even one shortcoming. I'm really confused every time I don't find it in any of "the best 100 movies ever" lists, though not to worry, it's surely in mine. To all the miserable lovers of (2001: A Space Odyssey) watch and learn, because this one is funny and has a meaning unlike so many overrated dreadful crap that you love. This is what movies are all about guys. Nearly one of the most ultimate movies in being a "movie".P.S: at the same year of 1988 there were as well (Die Hard), (Switching Channels), (Without a Clue), (Big Business), (Shoot to Kill), (Stand and Deliver), (High Spirits), or even (My Stepmother Is an Alien). I believe that the 1980s was undoubtedly the golden age of the feel good movies.

plan9-9 As much as I enjoyed the first movie, I had a feeling that getting the second one on DVD would be a mistake. I should have gone with my gut feeling. On the cover, it says that Siskel and Ebert have uttered that this may possibly be better than the first one. I really doubt that - someone please give me the reference if I'm mistaken. The problem is, as with Crocodile Dundee 2 and numerous other sequels, the purpose and originality of the first movie is the development of the characters. The quirks, social ineptitude, surprising qualities, cultural clashes, are what make the movie worthwhile and even enjoyable to watch. With a revenue success, far too often a sequel will appear. Again and again, it becomes clear that when you apply the lovable characters from the first movie to some formulaic plot in the sequel, it fails. It not only fails, it becomes painful to watch, going from one cliché to the next. Funnily enough, the kids seem to like it...