Sci-fi comedy for devotees seven and under. Two state-of-the-art androids (Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters under thick coats of lacquer) go AWOL from the repair shop, accompanied by a cruder, joke-telling robot called Catskill, and pursued by something called Crimebuster, a Panzer-like contraption equipped with blaring loudspeaker and blazing guns. It's only an hour and a quarter long, but what with the mincing, marionettish movement of the robots and the prissy overarticulation of their speech ("The same thought just crossed my grid," "You took the words right out of my speaker," etc.), it seems twice that. When it isn't being simply infantile, it is too sentimental to be the least bit funny. Directed by Allan Arkush. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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