Cherry 2000

Plot synopsis:
In the year 2017, the United States has fragmented into postapocalyptic wastelands and limited civilized areas. One of the effects of the economic crisis is a decline in manufacturing, and heavy emphasis on recycling aging 20th-century mechanical equipment. Society has become increasingly bureaucratic and hypersexualized, with the declining number of human sexual encounters requiring contracts drawn up by lawyers prior to sexual activity. At the same time, robotic technology has made tremendous developments, and female androids (or "gynoids") are used as substitutes for wives.
Business executive Sam Treadwell owns a "Cherry 2000" gynoid named Cherry. After Cherry short-circuits during sex, Sam is told by a repairman that she is irreparable. A gynoid dealer tells Sam that "Cherry 2000" gynoids were manufactured in a defunct factory in "Zone 7", a particularly dangerous, lawless area. With Cherry's memory disk, Treadwell hires Edith "E" Johnson, a tough tracker, to guide him to the factory.
As they enter Zone 7, they encounter Lester, a wasteland overlord with deranged subordinates. Edith and Sam enter an underground reservoir occupied by Six-Fingered Jake, an elderly tracker who was Edith's mentor. When Lester's men attack, the three attempt to escape, but Sam is knocked unconscious and taken to a 1950s-styled motel/village run by Lester. He is greeted by his ex-girlfriend, Elaine, who now calls herself Ginger and works for Lester. Ginger tells Sam that he was the only one spared by Lester's men. Lester decides to induct Sam into the group, and Sam goes along. When he witnesses the group sadistically murdering a tracker, he decides to escape. As he escapes Lester's group, Sam runs into Edith and Jake. Jake stays behind to create some distractions, and gives Cherry's memory disk to Edith, though he had earlier led Sam to believe the chip had been lost.
Edith, realizing Sam is a veteran of earlier wars, begins to see him in a new light and have feelings for him. Sam realizes he is attracted to Edith, but feels guilty when he is reminded of Cherry. After fighting off Lester's goons, they continue on to the factory. Edith goes to a brothel/gas station owned by Snappy, a friend of Jake, to borrow his light plane. Snappy betrays them to Lester. Jake is killed, but Edith and Sam escape in the plane.
Sam suggests that they turn around, but Edith is determined to find a Cherry 2000 model so Jake's death will not be meaningless. As they land, Zone 7 is revealed to be actually the ruins of Las Vegas, now a ghost town. The gynoid "factory" is actually a casino called "Pharaoh's Casino". Sam finds a functional Cherry 2000, and activates her with the memory disk.
When Lester's gang finds them, Edith and Sam manage to evade and kill many of his henchmen. Escaping to the plane, the three find that their combined weight prevents takeoff. Edith jumps out, despite Sam rejecting the idea. Sam turns the plane around to help the now-trapped Edith. Sam sends Cherry to get him a Pepsi, then has Edith get aboard. Lester is killed trying to stop them from escaping. Edith and Sam then kiss as they fly away.

Tags: cult

Review:
Man Meets Robot, Ditches Robot for Hot Babe with Gun. 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.
Fortunately, Cherry 2000 bucked this trend and deserves a spot on the shelf of any cult classic and/or Sci-fi movie collector..
But unlike many other cult movies, it actually deserves the title.There are many things to like about this flick.
Of course, Tim Thomerson as Lester nearly steals the show, providing a truly strange, ruthless villain.The effects are cheesy, sure, but they never look fake, unlike a lot of the CGI films coming out today.
a post-apocalyptic world (or sum such) where recycling is important, new fashions are in play and sex robots are possible and people (at least from the characters point of view) have to have contracts to date/copulateCherry then shows us one of the first *real* female action hero's (basically Tomb Raiders Laura Croft v1.0) and some great desert and action sequences that are widely unpredictable and done wellAll the while this stories carries on with credibility and imagination, Cherry 2000 is one of the most successful B movie sci-fi's ever accomplished it's these kinds of movies that give me hope to see more..
(note of course sci-fi had a great few years from about 1997 to 2001)On my last viewing this time I noticed again how good Basil Poledouris score compliments the movie..
I have loved this movie since it first appeared, Melanie Griffith is tough and sassy.
Don't let the age of this flick put you off if you haven't seen it and have even a passing interest in post apocalyptic and/or sci-fi flicks.The special effects are live action which really stand out if you haven't watched an older movie without CG in awhile.
It is the future on earth where anything is possible: even robots that look, act and perform like humans and can do almost any task.
High powered businessman Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) has a problem: his android model Cherry 2000 short circuited during some heavier than expected foreplay.
Weird and Entertaining Sci-Fi. In 2017, Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) is in love with his android Cherry 2000 (Pamela Gidley).
He travels to the border of the Zone 7 to hire the tracker Six Fingered Jake (Ben Johnson) to get another one from the dangerous cemetery of robot controlled by the insane criminal Lester (Tim Thomerson).
Along their journey, Sam discovers that a perfect woman is not a robot."Cherry 2000" is a weird and entertaining sci-fi with a funny story and lots of action.
Melanie Griffith is great as E Johnson, a tracker hired to find a memory chip for a robot.
They could probably make a male version for females, but their heads would probably explode because no matter how hard you try to program it to act perfectly, it will still somehow set a woman off by making her mad, or by making her cry the robot would then just short circuit because no matter what it tries it fails.
In 1987, both of this movie's main future premises  that autonomous, artificially intelligent robotic "perfect companions" would exist as consumer products by about 2000, and that America would suffer a partial political collapse in the same decade  were not particularly outlandish.While Cherry 2000 is presently achieving cult film status, it was originally received as a much more conventional SF movie..
This guide turns out to be a spunky, independent woman (played by Melanie Griffith!) and...you can probably guess the rest but that doesn't mean it isn't fun getting there.
Melanie Griffith, in a role unfairly shunned by the academy, is a bounty hunter in search of a replacement Cherry 2000, the spiffiest sex android on the wasteland market.
In the first scene, our lead character, Sam Tredwell, ( David Andrews) has a soapy, after dinner mishap with his own Cherry 2000 doll, which kick-starts the plot of him having to travel the wastelands of 'Zone 7′, to find another one.
Co-starring with Andrews is a jaunty looking Melanie Griffith, who seems to be playing a female 'Rambo', running and gunning her way through her scenes.
Surprisingly, some of the stunt work, locations and set pieces are genuinely quite stunning, which makes it all the more a shame that the end result is such an elaborate mess.Cherry 2000 is like Mad Max, but madder.
Johnson (the E stands for Edith), hired by lonely man Sam Treadwell (a fairly stiff David Andrews) to take him to a dangerous area where he can find a replacement for his robot wife Cherry (Pamela Gidley).
On their journey they run into colourful characters played by such wonderful acting veterans as Ben Johnson, who's endearing as Six Fingered Jake, and Harry Carey Jr., as Snappy Tom.You know you'll be in for a good time when you look over that supporting cast: Marshall Bell, Laurence Fishburne, Michael C.
The soaring score composed by Basil Poledouris ("Conan the Barbarian", "RoboCop", etc.) is fine accompaniment.Although Thomerson as Lester shows himself to be a serious psycho, this never gets too, too unpleasant, with director Steve De Jarnatt keeping the action moving and having fun with the offbeat little details provided by screenwriter Michael Almereyda (story credit goes to executive producer Lloyd Fonvielle).
I really wanted to like this film and I almost did, for reasons of Melanie Griffith looking really hot alone, but the truth is that this is a really goofy piece of cheese and there is nothing in the movie that really teaches anything.
It has that 80's look which fascinates me, no matter how bad a story or acting, but other than that, just a really bad Mad Max.The idea is that this guy from the rich part of the world loses his beloved female robot to a short circuit.
In the end, he realizes that killing people with grenades and high powered guns makes a "real" girl that looks like a porn Barbie doll be more lovable than a robot.
Mindless action, great characters, dime-novel romance, wonderful scenes and scenery, ridiculous premise, even more ridiculous action sequences, gender confusion (from the DVD cover, "She's your man").And more, no message (OK, a really weak and fun one, capped by my favorite quote having to do with a cola-based soft drink), creditable acting, Ben Johnson AND Harry Carey Jr. Most of all, this film is visually highly original/creative.
I wonder sometimes how such a movie gets produced (like, how did Michael Nesmith get Repo Man out of the Hollywood grinder?).My DVD front cover lists Melanie Griffith and Ben Johnson but not David Andrews, who was excellent.
A dirt and gravel road was all there was to connect to Ash Meadows, and a billboard marked the turn, advertising free coffee.The brothel itself featured a small motel, a pool (seen in the movie), a 9-hole golf course, and an air strip, which might still appear on civilian aviation charts.Some time after the brothel closed, the State of Nevada made it a landmark of some sort, and I believe it takes special permission to enter.If not for Cherry 2000, I would never have been able to see this place.
Thousands of people have seen the movie Cherry 2000 without knowing that they were seeing an historic place..
Up to this point in my life, ( I am 19 ) I note that the worst movie that I've ever seen is "Cherry 2000" I don't know how people consider Melanie Griffith an actor.Her unenthusiastic tone doesn't fit her role as a "bounty hunter".
Apart Melanie Griffith who are a true star, his top billing companion was totally miscasting to the main male role, no enough charism allowed to match with the gorgeous red-haired, despite it was Box office's fairlure twenty years ago this one has enough breadth to survives until now, due the major portion upheld by a odd fabulous supporting casting as Snappy Tom played by Harry Carrey Jr, the great Ben Johnson as Six Fingered Jack cooking snakes, and Robert Z'Dar a weird funny character with ugly face and protuberant jaw as trademark made history in small roles, some sort of Freddie Mercury's alikes, enchanting and fully entertainment for all kind of audiences and it looks like better in original dubbed version!!!Resume:First watch: 1990 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.
An unheard barely seen Melanie Griffith sci-fi film.
The main character is a young man named Sam Treadwell who owns a "Stepford Wives" type female robot who acts as his housekeeper and sexual partner.
(If the number 2000 was supposed to indicate the year in which Cherry was first manufactured, this is yet another in the long list of sci-fi predictions which have proved sadly premature- human colonies on Mars by 1987, and all that sort of thing).Sam discovers that there is a supply of Cherry 2000s in an abandoned warehouse, and decides to recover one and install the previous model's memory chip.
Sam also runs into his former girlfriend Elaine, now Lester's mistress, and the sort of neurotic, foul-tempered woman who could drive any man into the arms of a robotic substitute.The film is intended to be an action-adventure story, but it suffers from one fatal weakness; it stars Melanie Griffith.
She would probably have been better playing the robot Cherry, the girl with the artificial, carefully manufactured bimbo personality.There is occasionally some sharp dialogue; I liked, for example, the exchange when Elaine, told by Sam that her new boyfriend Lester is a psychopathic killer, snaps back "Don't impose your values on me, Sam".
Cherry 2000 is classic model of a love robot in the near future.
When Sam Treadwell's short circuits, he is devastated.He searched for a replacement Cherry (he kept the data chip to place in the new one) but finds that there are none.Finally he is tipped off that there is one in Zone 7 (a Mad Maxish Wasteland area of the USA).Sam hires a tracker (Melanie Griffith) to help him retrieve this Cherry model.
I watch a lot of 'so-bad-they're-good' films, but 'Cherry 2000' was actually quite different.
Therefore, the only thing he can do is set out into a forbidden wasteland where there's – apparently – a robot graveyard full of perfectly-kept Cherrys waiting to be taken back to some lucky man's kitchen.So he does.
A recent article in The Telegraph predicted that, by the year 2050, human-on-robot sex would have overtaken human-on-human sex; I reckon they could be right if the robots look anything like this film's titular model, the Cherry 2000, created to fulfil its owner's every desire.
Blonde, beautiful and obedient, Cherry (Pamela Gidley) seems like the perfect match for Sam Treadwell (David Andrews), which is why he goes to such great lengths to find a replacement body for her memory chip when a frolic on the kitchen floor results in some serious blown circuits.
With the only Cherries still in existence to be found in the robot graveyard of Zone 7, a desert wasteland inhabited by dangerous psychopaths, Sam hires the help of pretty 'tracker' E.
Johnson (Melanie Griffith), and comes to realise that his ideal woman might not be battery powered after all.Director Steve De Jarnatt's other film, Miracle Mile, is an almost flawless example of '80s apocalyptic cinema—an extremely tense, darkly humorous, and touching example of low-budget film-making revolving around a compelling dilemma—what would you do if you discovered that WWIII was imminent?Cherry 2000, a post-apocalyptic adventure that takes place in the near future of 2017 (next year, as I type), also poses an interesting question—will sex with a machine ever be as satisfying as the real thing?—but despite a much bigger budget than Miracle Mile, the film proves far less successful, thanks to an awkward blend of genres, its clumsy, episodic nature, and questionable performances.
Griffith is the film's other obvious weakness—she looks lovely (even with her bad hairdo and dubious wardrobe of tasselled post-apocalyptic attire), but fails to convince as a tough cookie who can handle almost any situation.Cult actors Robert Z'dar (Maniac Cop), Tim Thomerson (Trancers, Dollman), and Brion James (Bladerunner, Enemy Mine) join in the 'fun', but can do very little with the messy material (which might explain why Thomerson doesn't even seem to try).
That said, the biggest problem I had was the 'will they, won't they?' thing between the leads; now, I'm sorry, but given a choice between Pamela Gidley and Melanie Griffith, I'll take the robot any day.All in all though, if you like B-movies and fast forward through the hopelessly (non-)directed action sequences, it's worth watching; it could just have been much better if they'd decided what kind of movie they were making before they shot it..
OK things have moved on and maybe I should take off these rose tinted spectacle, but I don't want to.If you were born after 1990 and are thinking of watching this then you should know, before parting with your cash, that sci-fi films from the period (unless someone threw a tower block sized wad of cash at them) tended to be a bit lame.The effects here are ludicrously bad (even for the 80s) at one point what appears to be Aires Rock is taken out with a rocket launcher.The editing and direction are very sloppy.
A road-movie and science-fiction film, which has become a cult film, that is funny and entertaining despite the downs.The film has a great inventive and a good premise, and the characters are, a priori, quite attractive.
If the movie had been presented as a comedy, and not taken itself not so seriously, I would certainly have rated the film higher, as I laughed more than with many comedies.The cast counts with a very young Melanie Griffith in the role of the naive but daring E.
Sci-Fi. There is little that can be said positive about the soundtrack, wardrobe, acting, directing, blocking, editing, cinematography, casting, sound, lighting, locations or writing regarding this "B for bad" movie.
The music of Poledouris is most effective and stops the film from slipping completely into 'B' movie territory but the main reason we stay with this likeable tale is the relationship between the two leads and the supposed hunt for his 'true love', a plastic doll with extremely realistic robotic functions.
David Andrews gave a pretty average (and wooden) performance while Melanie Griffith shone in the film.
It is a little weird to read the tag line of the movie "In the year 2017, a good woman is hard to find.
This little-known, under-rated, obscure little film packs a lot of entertainment value.A 1987 production, directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, and Pamela Gidley, "Cherry 2000" goes highly unnoticed and unsung in the sci/fi field.
However; I cannot say why, as this movie is extremely well written and extraordinarily entertaining.When Sam Treadwell's robotic companion breaks down, he goes in search of an exact duplicate in which to install her memory chip, and continue his life.
He hires Edith "E" Johnson (Griffith) as a tracker to find her, and together they begin their journey into "The Zone;" a danger-filled jungle of a city in which Treadwell finds the ideal replacement for his Cherry model 2000 love.It is not just a science fiction classic, but it is a tremendous love story, and a marvelous work of writing.
David Andrews and Melanie Griffith had great chemistry together, and this pre-Data android: Cherry 2000 (albeit an intelligent sex toy), gave the plot an amusing and very human twist.
Since most of the story is set a world very reminiscent of Mad Max and Waterworld, fans of the post-apocalyptic type of fantasy should really enjoy this movie.
it's in the future where Melanie Griffith is a action type bounty hunter and this guy has an android lover which is his wife that dies and he has to do find another one like it.but she is kind of out of production.he can get a modern one but he wants the same one so he hires Melanie Griffith to go in to this war zone and track it down,there is only one place where he can get another.in the end he goes for the real thing and not the android.there is action and great music.it will entertain,I recommend if you like sci-fi and action movies..
I think they were showing movies of Melanie Griffith because "Working Girl" had become so popular at the time, and they were showing what a range this actress had from action-adventure to abused secretary.
And Melanie Griffith does have that range.Cherry 2000 didn't look finished when I saw it, but what I loved about ti was it's story.
Great hip action!") so it was suggested that there might be a Cherry 2000 model out in the wastelands of robots.
So, this man had to go into dangerous robotic wasteland territory with a real flesh and blood woman to find a Cherry 2000 robot that he thought was the only woman that could make him happy.As I pointed out, the story was a good story, the acting was fine, the production and post production values were light which took away from a lot for me as I watched it.
The story is about a guy with an expensive "Cherry 2000" sex bot played by the always sensational Pamela Gidley.
The movie addresses some interesting ideas about the future of courtship, with all the diseases now it seems like a robot girlfriend is probably the way to go, but their not human, their just cold machines.
Johnson (a delightfully feisty Melanie Griffith, who looks great with fiery red hair) to take him into a dangerous region known as the Zone in order to find a replacement model for his beloved Cherry 2000 android (the extremely cute, bubbly and enchanting Pamela Gidley) after the original blows a fuse.
In contrast, "Cherry 2000" is one of the worst.The whole cast are more two dimensional than "Cherry" herself, and I'm sure this is one movie that Melanie Griffith would quickly like forgotten.