Cherry 2000

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Cherry 2000

A lightweight love story underpins a fun story with a range of eccentric characters in a world that has lost it. At no point in time does the movie try to be anything other an entertaining comedy with short bursts of action, and as such, it is a success.

Melanie Griffith may look like a redhead, but she talks and behaves like a blonde. She would have been much more suited to play the robot as she is not tough enough to be the fiery redhead. Griffith does manage to be attractive enough to steer Andrews from his toys. David Andrews is convincing as the uptight executive who needs a real woman. Ben Johnson plays the charming cowboy as good as always. Tim Tomerson steals the movie as the 80's desert wasteland villain. Brion James, Lawrence Fishburne, and Jennifer Balgobin have roles that are too small for their talent. The movie is an amusing little trifle that deserves it's cult status and should please fans of the broken civilization genre of the 80's.

When I first saw this movie I was hooked. I watched it many times and I still find new things. It grows on you. Really good cast and storyline. Watch it! Pamely Gidley is just superduper and the settings are like the Wild Wild West!

Curious futuristic sci-fi offering has a sexy performance from Griffith and likable work by Thomerson, plus an intriguing high concept premise. It doesn't totally come off, but there's definitely some interesting stuff going on amidst the flaws. Scifi movies about the future often don't date well and this one is no different, but it's not without its charms. Some action sequences are jarring and out of place; perhaps they should have concentrated more on romancing the two leads, who have nice chemistry. This is grade-c stuff, but somehow whenever I see it on the tube I pause for a while and check it out. Despite flopping when released, this movie has taken on a formidable cult status since. Might be worth a look, especially if you enjoy post-apocalyptic stories like ROAD WARRIOR or WATERWORLD.

If narrow comedy is a thing, this is it. Most of the jokes are in the premise and signs on buildings. The plot has quite a few holes and things that just don't make sense. She tells him they don't want to be wandering around Zone 7 in the daylight, then they get there in morning and drive around all day. Was that a joke? The end was very predictable but I was still surprised for some reason. Definitely worth watching once.

until I saw this film. It's absolutely hilarious. And Ben Johnson was just a treat. Melanie was never so pouty and sexy, but that Mustang she drove steals the show. A really underrated film with lots of very wicked things to say. This relates to Mad Max about like 007 related to spies or (Chief) Inspector Clousseau related to detectives. Well, it's not in the same class, but it takes a stab at camping the Road Warrior.

This is the kind of film that gets under your skin. One of a small subgenre of Sci-Fi Westerns, its small flashes of inspired writing make it worth watching some night when there's nothing else to do. Cameron Milzer is particularly notable as a blackly comedic psycho-girlfriend, but Tim Thomerson and Melanie Griffith are no slouches themselves. Pleasant bleak visuals and an interesting score from Basil Poledouris (Robocop, Hunt For Red October, & the Conan films, as well as 60 other movies) make for a modest repeat viewability factor. Fun and stupid!

Cherry 2k is a low budget one-off adaptation of the Mad Max concept mixed in with futurist technology ideas and a very cool love story. The male star goes on a quest to replace his lost robot sex android. That's the basic plot. What's unusual is that this movie succeeds in mixing these elements without screwing up. The Sci-fi perspective doesn't overwhelm the overall plot, and vice versa. Very few B grade movies from this time period were watchable, much less worth keeping in one's collection. Fortunately, Cherry 2000 bucked this trend and deserves a spot on the shelf of any cult classic and/or Sci-fi movie collector.