The fantastic Robin Williams (“Good Will Hunting”, “Flubber”) stars in this rather poor movie. It seems he has a tendency like two other funny people Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy to star in bad movies quite often. Although not as bad as the film “Jack” or “Toys” it still manages to be a weak choice for the star.

In this movie, Richard Martin (Sam Neil “Jurassic Park”) buys himself a robot named Andrew (Williams). They Martin family find him to be unique and Richard teaches Andrew about emotions and humour until as the years and generations of the Martin family go by Andrew starts to develop emotions and feelings, especially after several operations are performed on him.

The robot in this movie looks ridiculous. Whenever I see him, I just want to laugh; he’s actually partially based on Robin Williams himself. The robot looks worse though when he has an operation so he can smile. Finally after a later operation we see Williams without a costume on. Although Williams is good the script is so bad, he has virtually nothing to work with. Sam Neil is exceptionally good and probably the best aspect of the entire film sadly. The rest of the cast disappointed.

The script in this film is so robotic that it kills a lot of fun. As the robot develops emotions and becomes more and more human the film wants you to feel for Andrew, but I don’t as the dialogue in this film is so awful the characters, including the humans all feel very mechanical. The film is unpredictably stupid and like I said it’s not the worst Robin Williams movie but that doesn’t make a good one by any means. I highly recommend you skip this film as it is major misuse of talent and a generally weak family sci-fi experience.