A.I. Artificial Intelligence

***A.I. Artificial Intelligence*** (also known as ***A.I.*** or ***Artificial Intelligence***) is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg and screen story by Ian Watson were loosely based on the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. Set in a futuristic post-climate change society, *A.I.* tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love. The film was released on June 29, 2001 by Warner Bros. Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

In a 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics around the world, *A.I. Artificial Intelligence* was voted the eighty-third-greatest film since 2000.

## Plot

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor). Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

## Why It Rocks

1. Many of the performance from cast are great of Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. Even the cast who voiced certain characters did a great job as well, such as Robin Williams, Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep.
2. Once again, Steven Spielberg does a great job for directing for this film and continues the charm of his career.
3. The scenes with David meets Professor Hobby is surprising.
4. The premise of childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love is unique.
5. John Williams' score is beautiful and fits the tone and its scenes.
6. The dinner scenes is hilarious. Nuff said.
7. Like other Steven Spielberg movies, it lack of pop-culture jokes, which is really nice what they are.
8. Heartwarming moments, such as David seeing the Blue Fairy.
9. At the end of the credits, the film pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick, who originally directed this film and died in 1999.
10. The CGI is great, mainly the robots.
11. It has likable characters, such as David, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love for becoming an human and Gigolo Joe, who must help David.
12. The Flesh Fair scenes is entertaining and a good metaphor for what would be looks like: noisy, scary, violence and louder.
13. It does perfectly grasp of the source material to the original short film.
14. The concept of vehicles, like the future cars is actually a great concept for the sci-fi film, as it did fits for the sci-fi film very well.
15. Heartwarming quotes, like "***You are a real boy. At least as real as I've ever made one.***" and "***I'm a boy.***"

## Bad Qualities

1. The CGI, while great for the time, also hasn't really aged well to today's standards.
2. Some scenes can get intense and violent despite its PG-13 rated film, such as the scenes with Flesh Fair where the robots gets destroyed.
3. The infamous ending.

## Reception

### Crtitical response

*A.I. Artificial Intelligence* received mostly positive reviews. Based on 194 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of critics gave the film positive notices with a score of 6.62/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism. *A.I.* is, in a word, fascinating.". By comparison, Metacritic collected an average score of 65, based on 32 reviews, which is considered favorable.

### Box office

*A.I. Artificial Intelligence* becomes a box office success, grossed approximately $235 million.

### Accolades

Visual effects supervisors Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri, and Scott Farrar were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, while John Williams was nominated for Best Original Music Score. Steven Spielberg, Jude Law and Williams received nominations at the 59th Golden Globe Awards.

## Trivia

* For the U.S. theatrical release, the Warner Bros. logo appeared before the Dreamworks logo at the beginning of the film, and the poster credits said, "Warner Bros. and Dreamworks Pictures present." Since the U.S. version's home video/DVD rights are owned by Dreamworks, the Dreamworks logo at the beginning of the movie appears before the Warner Bros. logo, and the back of the box's cover art says, "Dreamworks Pictures and Warner Bros. present."

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