A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 146 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DRWD89567D
ISBN: 0783265638
UPC: 667068956726
EAN: 9780783265636
ASIN: B00003CXXP
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: March 5, 2002
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History will place an asterisk next to A.I. as the film Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But let the record also show that Kubrick--after developing this project for some 15 years--wanted Steven Spielberg to helm this astonishing sci-fi rendition of Pinocchio, claiming (with good reason) that it veered closer to Spielberg's kinder, gentler sensibilities. Spielberg inherited the project (based on the Brian Aldiss short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long") after Kubrick's death in 1999, and the result is an astounding directorial hybrid. A flawed masterpiece of sorts, in which Spielberg's gift for wondrous enchantment often clashes (and sometimes melds) with Kubrick's harsher vision of humanity, the film spans near and distant futures with the fairy-tale adventures of an artificial boy named David (Haley Joel Osment), a marvel of cybernetic progress who wants only to be a real boy, loved by his mother in that happy place called home. Echoes of Spielberg's Empire of the Sun are clearly heard as young David, shunned by his trial parents and tossed into an unfriendly world, is joined by fellow "mecha" Gigolo Joe (played with a dancer's agility by Jude Law) in his quest for a mother-and-child reunion. Parallels to Pinocchio intensify as David reaches "the end of the world" (a Manhattan flooded by melted polar ice caps), and a far-future epilogue propels A.I. into even deeper realms of wonder, even as it pulls Spielberg back to his comfort zone of sweetness and soothing sentiment. Some may lament the diffusion of Kubrick's original vision, but this is Spielberg's A.I. (complete with one of John Williams's finest scores), a film of astonishing technical wizardry that spans the spectrum of human emotions and offers just enough Kubrick to suggest that humanity's future is anything but guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon
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 Absolute garbage February 14, 2010
Cinemabon (United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wrote my college paper about Steven Speilberg. I am an ardent fan and love his work, even parts of "1941." However, I squirmed along with several other filmgoers at the premiere of this film. Finally, several people around me could no longer take it. They started to walk out. These were not disgruntled teens. The people who walked out were disgusted. I can't say that I've ever been as disappointed by Steven's work as I am with this film. It isn't just bad, it's insultingly bad. Watching it again would be pointless. Don't waste your time. You've been warned. I spent three months on another website debating with a film critic why I hated this film so much (abusing children for one... it's tasteless!).
 Heart clenching February 13, 2010
Katherine Menchaca
This movie made me cry so much toward the end. I loved it, I've never seen a movie quite like this one.
 A.I., is a great ride, with philosophical questions... February 3, 2010
David Wilkins (Minnesota)
Few sci-fi movies invite as much thought and consideration as 'A.I.' Large philosophical questions are put before the viewer to engage the heart and mind, while we're dazzled by some of the most imaginative scenes ever put on film. We live in an age when true artificial intelligence no longer seems far fetched, and the real horizon brings relevance to issues, such as our responsibility to the entities we might one day create.
Speilberg's design team created amazing worlds that range from sunny up-scale suburbs, to haunting techno garbage dumps, where abandoned mechas (mechanicals) go in search of spare parts...a replacement jaw, an arm or leg. Or Rouge City, a Las Vegas-like town where anything can be had for a price. And New York City, decayed and submerged in some future decade. In a world where many humans (orgas, or organics) feel disenfranchised, they hold Flesh Fairs, assemblies of frenzied hatred where mechas are destroyed in the most violent ways possible.
Haley Joel Osment ('The Sixth Sense') is the child-mecha, designed to know and feel love. He is imprinted, bonded to a childless couple who, though well-meaning, abandon him due a turn of events. The imprint is deep, and will haunt him through a vast journey to regain the love he knew from his adopted mother. Jude Law, in a memorable role as Gigolo Joe, is a "lover-mecha" created with an illicit purpose. A. I., is a song of the spirit, an eternal search by an innocent created mind to regain a love interrupted by hard dealings in a hard world. As Gigolo Joe says, "They created us too smart, too quickly, and in too large numbers".
There is a yearning edge that leans toward sentimentality, but if we can't occasionally connect with such stories, we may as well pull the plug on everything else. Though a couple of aspects were mildly disappointing, 'A.I.' is storytelling and film production on steroids, and the sum of its parts are too good to ignore.
 Great photography, dull story December 24, 2009
Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
2 of 5 stars for the sci-fi movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Frankly, I'd give this movie a 1 of 5 stars, however, it is really well made with great photography and clean special effects, so it gets a 2 of 5. Set in the future where a company made a mechanical boy. The kid who played the robot did a good job. The story is insanely dull and excessively long at 2h25min. If they cut about 1h from the movie it would be OK and get a higher rating. Sorry, I do not recommend this movie; BTW, I lasted 1h30 before quitting for something else.
Mr. know as a simile of Library November 25, 2009
RICARDO SAAVEDRA S (México, D.F.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like very much the scene where it appears Mr. know as a simile of a Library of the future where we can see that even in the form of holograms, the disambiguation continue through the basic principles of categorization in classes in order to find the information we need.
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