Une comédie de petit écran.
Le film "Robots" est un peu une déception pour moi. Un film qui parle de l’évolution des robots avec leur intelligence artificielle, il y a de quoi faire, des situations drôles à trouver surtout que les robots en question sont des clones de nos personnages principaux, mais malheureusement à part 2 ou 3 blagues ou situations cocasses, le métrage n’arrive pas bien à faire rire. Les blagues sont toujours orientées vers le cul, ce qui est un peu lourd au bout d’un moment. L’évolution de nos 2 protagonistes est assez bien gérée, au début Hélène et Charles sont assez détestables mais plus le temps passe plus on s’attache à eux, ce qui est un bon point, malheureusement on a jamais peur pour eux malgré leur situation vers la fin du film.
En bref, le film manque d’ambition comme la plupart des films de plate-forme mais si on met ça de côté, ce n’est pas trop mal filmé, les acteurs ont l’air de s’être amusés et on passe quand même un bon moment devant ce film.
It was not boring or something like that, but the premise could have been made into a much better movie, this felt quite bland at times and not as funny as some would hope for.
Shailene Woodley's character just wants men to buy her designer purses, while Jack Whitehall's wants to bed as many women as possible. They both use robot twins to do the romancing, then they swoop in to collect their booty. Due to a mixup, the 2 robots end up on a date and fall in love. Since these androids are illegal, this poses issues for the humans. Whitehall is a fine, funny comedian and his acting tends to reflect the same smarmy, self-involved type (he's also creating a similar character in the current season of Afterparty). Woodley is lovely, but lacks much comic appeal. Even though the story holds potential to be screwball funny, there are seldom any real laughs. The film moves with energy and their chemistry is OK, but essentially it lacks much comic charm. One complaint: While this is supposed take place in 2032, the ONLY futuristic thing is the robots. No driverless cars or anything else.
(Mauro Lanari)
Dystopian sci-fi to criticize today's mankind: if people behave like automatons while the latter discover they have real feelings, it is from them that we could or should learn. Shailene Woodley is already 31 years old and tries to propose herself as a sex-symbol leaving romance, tenderness and loving-kindness to her gynoid alter ego. The pace is incomprehensibly slow, perhaps because the idea is skimpy and would barely fill an episode of "Black Mirror."
Considering what the plot proposes, I must conscientiously admit that Jack Whitehall and Shailene Woodley share a good chemistry. Other than that, the humorous/romantic approach is insipid and essentially unfunny.
There's very little that qualifies as humorous, mostly because the actors play unsympathetic characters, and it's impossible to feel a connection with them, and by that I mean both when they play the robots and their human counterparts.
None of them have any charisma and they are even self-described as the womanizer and the gold digger, while the ''Robots'' have no personality despite the fact that their actions are what trigger all the events in this story.
All in all, this is a very poor film. I was quite surprised to see Shailene Woodley in it and not so much because I think she is a great actress but because I think this is the first role in her career where she was only interested in her salary.
Is this what the future holds for her career? As also seems to be the case with Jennifer Lawrence and the upcoming No Hard Feelings.
Food for thought.
I can only assume that a million monkeys typing on a million typewriters wrote this script. Then they wrote the script and read it and said this is too good good, throw it away. Lets get a million robot monkeys writing on a million typewriters that had just been pulled out **** factory fire and get them to write it. We'll grab some extras from the new purge movie that's filming down the block and call them "robots", but for no reason at all we will also have absolutely realistic robots that are so real you have to poke them in the eye to tell them apart. Pure ****