Saccharine science fiction concerning a domestic android named Andrew, who comes to want his freedom and his humanity. We go through a long stretch of sitcom material, followed by an even longer, and slower, stretch of tearjerker material, both stretches littered with juvenile off-color material. Isaac Asimov, the author of the original short story, is the fictional world's foremost authority on robots, and always has something interesting to say on the subject. But then Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus got into it, bringing flatulence jokes, scatological jokes, stand-up jokes: "This Buddhist walks up to a hotdog vendor and says, 'Make me one with everything'." Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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