Why the low score? :(
I guess its probably just one of those films where you either love it or you hate it?
shareI'd say most folks are pretty neutral on this film rather than loving it or hating it. The majority of voters gave this a 5 or a 6; I chose the former. It's not a bad film, and the first "Short Circuit" wasn't that great, but this one is missing the appeal of Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg. At least it has Johnny.
shareJust seen SC 1&2 for the first time in years and really liked them.
I gave them both a 6 out of 10.
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I don't know, but I can list a few reasons that made me not like the movie too much.
- The atmosphere is 'harsher' - it's not as inspiring, exciting, sweet and lovely as the first movie. Instead of beautiful countryside or nice place like Oregon, we're in a noisy, chaotic metropolis with not much nature. Mid-eighties vs. late eighties - the latter will always lose in atmosphere.
- The whole point of view changed from 'what is life' and 'respecting life and nature' to 'teenage gangsta thugs have violent fight against robot'. From a deep and beautiful philosophical pondering sprinkled with comedy, one-liners and wacky fun humor, to a mundane, violent, more serious tone.
- Trying to preach instead of provoking thought and insight - you should blah blah and don't be a racist or violent blahblah ugly duckling drama blah
- Drama instead of comedy
- Shocking violence and pain instead of brighter storyline with hope and fun
- The ending is too sugary sweet and perfect contrasted to what just happened earlier
- Lots of boring filler
- Uninteresting and unrealistic 'injected romance' that wastes the viewer's time SO MUCH
- Destroying the original characters, their names, identities and backstory
- A lot of the movie happens in a boring factory instead of picturesque Oregon and beautiful nature sceneries
- The pacing is all over the place
- It's not poignant, like the first one - it doesn't offer the adult almost anything, and it's too violent and scary for kids - it falls between the cracks and doesn't really fit anyone
- Johnny 5 wanting revenge is not a good plot, in the first one, he just wanted to live without being shot at
- The whole clichéic 'bank robbery' crap is just so typical and lazy trope, how many times do we need to see 'bank robbers are bad'? Are those private bank owners SO scared that someone's going to rob them, they have to include this trope in every darn movie?
- The story just isn't very good
- Besides the bank robbery and Johnny 5 getting violently beaten up, what really happens in this movie? Filler, filler, filler and more filler, Johnny gets a couple of books and gets hassled. That's about it. The first movie explored many themes - who has the right to live, who has the right to kill life, and why, and what makes the distinction important, etc.? What is life? Where do we all come from?
This movie asks 'how to rob bank robbers' and 'if someone looks different, can they be bullied' (how typically preachy and boring).
It's like saying 'racism is bad'. It's groan-inducing, because a) everyone KNOWS that already and b) we've been already told it so many times
Tell me you have not seen this movie's plot many times already, when it comes to injected romance and bank robbery stuff. There has to be a thousand of 'romantic comedies' out there that have the same kind of scenarios and there has to be a thousand bank robbery movies that are more imaginative than this movie's bank robbery stuff.
Why is people robbing a bank seen as the worst crime ever in movies, but banks robbing people is seen as a good thing?