Narm Charm makes this sentimental cheese enjoyable
According to Wikipedia, Golan-Globus made movies by buying out "bottom barrel scripts" and then producing them. This is certainly "bottom barrel" alright. This is one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen.
We're introduced to a 1980s Japan in which televisions and clocks talk, and robots do all manner of household chores. The most advanced robot of all is one that is nameless, and it shows Susie that it can play catch, tag, help her reach a cookie jar on top of the refrigerator and steal cookies, and do many more things. A verbal flub ("You are too much!") gives the robot its name, and the two proceed to become the best of friends. Aww.
The human-robot relationship looks like it will have to come to an end, however, as Susie's parents inform her that they'll be leaving Japan and heading back to the US. Susie is traumatized and runs off to be with her robot, and Too Much runs off to be with her. Soon, all of Tokyo is searching for the two, while two rival roboticists who wish to steal and study Too Much also separately join the pursuit.
The movie is loaded with cheese and sentimentality. Sad songs play during scenes that show Susie's deepening "love" (if that's the right word) for Too Much, and there's a general sadness to much of the film that caught me by surprise. I couldn't believe something this dumb took itself so seriously.
Of course, there's still room for silliness. You get the usual Home Alone Antics when the bad guys chase the kids at one point, some comedy involving Too Much learning how to milk a cow, and there's also some bumbling cops who can't catch a simple girl and her slow-moving robot.
Oh, that's another thing: Too Much moves very slowly. He's not some kind of super-powered mech, or even an android. He's more along the lines of R2-D2. He can barely fight, and clearly wasn't built for fighting, just for simple tasks. If Susie really prefers the company of this thing over actual humans, she must be quite the misanthrope.
This movie's mixture of sentimentality and sadness crossed with cheese and a stupid plot that only gets stupider as it goes, made it quite a rich source of Narm Charm. I enjoyed it both ironically and unironically - it's dumb, and it's got heart. And honestly, heart and emotion is what a lot of kid movies just don't have.
Narm Charm makes this sentimental cheese enjoyable
According to Wikipedia, Golan-Globus made movies by buying out "bottom barrel scripts" and then producing them. This is certainly "bottom barrel" alright. This is one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen.
We're introduced to a 1980s Japan in which televisions and clocks talk, and robots do all manner of household chores. The most advanced robot of all is one that is nameless, and it shows Susie that it can play catch, tag, help her reach a cookie jar on top of the refrigerator and steal cookies, and do many more things. A verbal flub ("You are too much!") gives the robot its name, and the two proceed to become the best of friends. Aww.
The human-robot relationship looks like it will have to come to an end, however, as Susie's parents inform her that they'll be leaving Japan and heading back to the US. Susie is traumatized and runs off to be with her robot, and Too Much runs off to be with her. Soon, all of Tokyo is searching for the two, while two rival roboticists who wish to steal and study Too Much also separately join the pursuit.
The movie is loaded with cheese and sentimentality. Sad songs play during scenes that show Susie's deepening "love" (if that's the right word) for Too Much, and there's a general sadness to much of the film that caught me by surprise. I couldn't believe something this dumb took itself so seriously.
Of course, there's still room for silliness. You get the usual Home Alone Antics when the bad guys chase the kids at one point, some comedy involving Too Much learning how to milk a cow, and there's also some bumbling cops who can't catch a simple girl and her slow-moving robot.
Oh, that's another thing: Too Much moves very slowly. He's not some kind of super-powered mech, or even an android. He's more along the lines of R2-D2. He can barely fight, and clearly wasn't built for fighting, just for simple tasks. If Susie really prefers the company of this thing over actual humans, she must be quite the misanthrope.
This movie's mixture of sentimentality and sadness crossed with cheese and a stupid plot that only gets stupider as it goes, made it quite a rich source of Narm Charm. I enjoyed it both ironically and unironically - it's dumb, and it's got heart. And honestly, heart and emotion is what a lot of kid movies just don't have.