That ending, that damn…DAMN ending! The Nostalgia Critic reviews AI. Originally aired on May 28th, 2013.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known as A.I.) 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.
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honestly the ending is a lot more bittersweet than people think imo, and the sh1tting on tmz is still hilarious even after they're completely irrelevant.
AI is a Materpiece… If you don't get it.. you just don't get it…
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If you think this movie is trash, you're a fucking moron. I'm out.
I really liked this movie. But this review is really funny.
I agree with the switcheroo commentary at the end. Anyone who has lost the most important person in their life would be moved at the idea of getting to spend one more day with them.
I first heard of this movie in this review. I watched the film, thinking I'd hate it. This is now one of my favorite films.
First, the movie is creepy as fuck. Smash the robot child with a sledge hammer and melt it in a steel factory terminator 2 style.
The fairytale, Pinocchio, blue fairy crap was just plain stupid.
The ending was also dumb.
So the movie shows the dream of two artists, one wishing to be another, and they both failed beutifully.
One (form the grave) at the ending. And the second at all the rest of movie.
Still think this was only made by WB ta outshine tha Matrix
Movie never really explained why they were making a bunch of robot kids
Damn, the ending is so sad! Forget The Mist, A.I. has the bleakest ending!
Teddy was cosplayed in the Shining
I find the Nostalgia Critic to be not only pretentious and unfunny, but also extremely annoying.
He's the kind of person, even outside of character, that I'd find insufferable simply by existing. (The same goes for his fans.)
Btw this film was amazing. I don't care what your opinion is.
I have to wonder if the mom was always meant to be an absolute fucking idiot with no foresight, or if that was something lost in translation between Kubrick and Spielberg
5:57 ya this is definitely is part of why ruins the film for people.
10:58 and that explains why we have so many problems.
14:16 that is awesome.
Wonder what a film collaboration between Steven Spielberg & Stanley Kubrick would fully look like.
34:16 that lien alone makes this one of my favourite reviews.
im surprise that the nostalgia critic didn't review Ex Machina
Why didn’t the hair decompose after 2000 years? Why was teddy still alive when NO OTHER robot was? How come the only times David was able to act emotionally normal was when he was in turmoil? He’s literally a robot, until he needs to be human.
just realized malcom got off easy in the end
Is there no such thing as adoption in the future?
Are no children ever orphaned?
Why would a robot child need a robot teddy bear toy?
Isn't that like getting a toaster for your washing machine?
M3gan was clearly inspired by this movie!
How about getting rid of the real boy. He's Damien.
"Sci Fi version of Pinocchio".
Commander Data. Problem solved before we even knew we had a problem.
5:19 Is that an Al Gore joke?
The obnoxiousness 9f the TMZ parody is brilliant
I like the ending. It’s a fairy tale ending. Ties the whole film together
It makes me feel old knowing that the NC did this review over a decade ago.
Sooo… Can I get some context behind all the tmz bashing? Like… Why? Was tmz really popular in 2013?
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Box Office: $701.1 million
Stanley Kubrick Filmography (1957-1999)
1. Paths of Glory (1957)
Box Office: $141.5 million
2. Spartacus (1960)
Box Office: $1.806 billion
3. Lolita (1962)
Box Office: $944.1 million
4. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Box Office: $894.9 million
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Box Office: $11.224 billion
6. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Box Office: $6.470 billion
7. Barry Lyndon (1975)
Box Office: $1.013 billion
8. The Shining (1980)
Box Office: $647.7 million
9. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Box Office: $865.7 million
10. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Box Office: $544.1 million
Total Earnings: $24.6 billion
whats with evil robot movies turning into misunderstood robot movies when it changes writers/directors? This and Blade Runner, jeez
This movie really needed
Tim Burton
The movie would have been bad and forgettable without the ending it had. The ending was absolutely Kubrickian. It just went beyond in that he used Steven Spielberg to detonate sentimentality by presenting an absolute void as ersatz feeling … and then getting the audience to believe it. If you laughed at it as saccharine or cried as emotionally impactful you only got half of it.
The questions that N.C. posted on the screen regarding whether love could be programmed into an A.I./robot and what the nature of love is were quite profound.Also,Rachel Tietz(in this video)looks an awful lot like Rep.Lauren Boebert.
AI is in my top 20 movies. Masterpiece. Your harshness was entertaining but come on man…. its supposed to be a fairy tale.
Remembering when TMZ was a thing. Wondering if there's a NC episode where he spoofs the Jerry Springer show!
i know yall are making fun of it, but sit down and just watch with no other thought. This movie made me cry. twice…there is more to this movie than "haha weird lol weird"
this is snarky and lame. i hope you regret it. collative learning has a much better deep dive into it.
Wasn’t a train wreck, I liked it
I think I liked the Simpson's ending better
I just thought Doug was gonna kill everyone at the end
I can't believe people who watched 2001 A Space Odyssey, a movie that ends with a giant baby floating in space, wouldn't see Stanley Kubrick wanting to end this movie with a blue fairy granting a wish to a robot child lol
Yeah I never quite full got invested in the post apocalyptic setting of this movie with some children being put in cryogenic suspension due to global warming. I personally think Al Gore took over production and put this plot point to warn people about the dangers of pollution and driving gas spewing cars. I also think that Al Gore was the one who put the Climate Change BS in Gen:lock season 2.
I like A.I Artificial Intelligence
Worst part is that TMZ soft opening was comically Indistinguishable from the real show. I mean who watches this shit still??
More like Genuine Stupidity
Such double standards, nobody gives a shit about the chris rock bot 🙁
It’s such a funny contrast after seeing Schaffrills saying this movie is a masterpiece despite how devisive it is to Doug (as the Critic) tearing it a new one lol
12:33 I get what NC is saying, but dude, in the movie the manual did say that the settings were final and can’t be changed.
Frankly, when I first saw this film, I didn’t even know who Chris Rock was.
The way he yells and swears at movies might have been funny 7 years ago, but it has aged this video like unrefrigerated yogurt on a hot summer day. It's almost like he's bullying the filmmakers just for making a film he didn't like.
Dr. Know is a relic used in basically a version of a city like a large brothal style theme park that's not legal. It has been peiced together by it's owners over time. Remember robots have been being manufactured for a number of years by more than one company..we see this in Flesh Fair.
Doug, I know you're asking, "What kind of mother would even think about dumping her kid off, to live alone, in the woods, rather than reprogramming him, or shutting him off?" I know you're saying "It's unrealistic!" That "No mom would ever come to that conclusion!" But my response is, Did you forget about all the moms, who microwaved their own babies? How about Andrea Yates, or Dianne Downs? This robotic kid wasn't even hers. She loved him enough, that she didn't want him to die, but after the trauma of her entire bizarre situation, she lost her mind. If you replaced your real son, because you thought he was going to die, only to have the little brat miraculously recover, and hate you for replacing him, with a bot, then the bot appears to be homicidal, you'd make crappy decisions too. As a mom, if I were thrown into this whacky, sci-fi scenario, I'd go nuts and probably kill them both. My brain would literally break, from the insanity of it. I'd probably believe that they both must die, in order to save the world from the 2nd coming of Hitler Christ. I'm just saying, I think the scene might be forgivable. Love you, Doug. ❤
Someone please write me a fanfic where the mother and her real kid die in a house fire :')
I thought that the part when the mom abandoned David in the woods was the saddest part.
I'm Guessing 9/11 also didn't happen in this movie's Timeline
I came back to this review just to say, even though some people didn’t like it, I thought the Creator was better than this
The Tracy Morgan edit, LOL
17:31
i loved this movie the whole movie but i could not sit through 2001 space odyssey that was the most boring movie i ever saw givin it was fro the 60s but bloody hell.
I was a poor teen when I saw this movie first time. That time I took everything at face value. The plot responses with me emotionaly. Plot about kid that wanted to be real loved one by his mother. Espetially the ending in wich this kid appears in a miracle lie of being real and loved by his mother for whole one day. Miracle will disappear next day, but the next day will never come because а boy's dream to die for has come true. This is my cherished dream too. I cry every time I think about the ending. Maybe this big and expensive film was made especially for people like me.
With A.I., Spielberg made a kid's movie with lame adults, whereas Kubrick would've made an adult movie with very sophisticated kids.
22:38
I actually think this is one of Spielberg’s most underrated movies. I can’t say I don’t understand why it’s so hated and I can understand why people can’t get into it. But I personally thought it was amazing. I love the idea of the movie, with it being how the robot is actually the one we’re supposed to sympathise with and it’s an idea we don’t often see so I think it’s really clever, especially the idea of retelling the story of Pinocchio through the robot. And I feel like the movie’s both charming enough but also dark enough to be able to execute this idea to the best it could be executed. Also, Haley Joel Osment definitely makes this movie. He’s a ridiculously talented child actor who’s able to make you believe every character he’s playing and I’ve always thought it was a shame he’s never got that much credit for his acting.
I have several questions on why this was a huge hit
6:40 wow that’s creepy af…
Let’s turn it up
15:07 not anymore
Why the actual hell did he wish that bitch back anyway? She's the one who abandoned him while he bawled his fuckin eyes out!!! Wtf???!!
The ending of this movie would have read a little differently if David just asked them to make a new Mommy every day until the sun blows up. That would have satisfied his programming, after all.
The ironic thing is i was hired to talk about people like this.
My mom loved this movie when I was a kid. I thought it was just “ok”. But I remember every time she saw it she cried, especially at the end. As a child it didn’t make sense to me, what was happening in this movie that was so tragic she would react that way? But now as an adult I perfectly understand, ironically like an A.I. itself a child could never understand, because what she was feeling isn’t something that can be truly explained, but is a learned response. You would have to be a parent yourself, or lose a loved one to truly understand. She wasn’t viewing it as just a movie but though the lens of a caretaker. And it’s framed through the lens of the character journey, we go on that path with David and experience it with him. David isn’t just a robot or some “kid” he’s an abandoned child who was willingly rejected by the only “parent” he ever knew, and like a real child his only thought process is getting home again. He was rejected because he wasn’t “human” enough for her, he could behave like a human and mimic a child but the things he can’t do like eat or sleep are what ultimately causes him to be rejected when the real thing is presented. In the end when he’s with his mom for only one more day he can dream, the cruel irony being that now he can be “human enough” for a mother who will never fully accept or embrace him because she’s not really coming back. It makes sense why this would cause my mom to cry because even now David is still trying to change and become “perfect” for an imperfect person who will never see him that way and as a parent she knows a real mother already sees their child as perfect. There is no reason to change them, through all their imperfections that child is yours and they’re already perfect. As an adult who has experienced astonishing loss of my own I understand this film now. And I cry too.
(16:36) Why do I get the feeling that these hunters are actually escaped TRON programs riding unfinished Shark Machines from Kakuranger?
If there's one thing I learned from A.I., sometimes it's not the movie's story that makes it good, but the story of the conception of it. Sometimes, movies aren't made for public appeal to please the masses, but it can be anything. A movie can be a dying friend's passion project revived, it can be a love letter, etc.
16:19–16:23 in megaman x6 sigma was technically that thing.(he was basically a zombie with his mind a pathetic wreck from being pulled at the last second.:3)
I know I'm basically years late… But… What's the song at 38:06
How dare you call it train wreck. It is good for what it is . And photoshop does not do every fx work , you know nothing. Stop it.
I would try this. Find someone who has never seen or knows anything about AI and just have them watch from where the mom wakes up to the end of the movie. If u do that, then i think u have a really great short film about a mother and son. Like a really heartwarming film that good enough to win best live action short. Because a son spending one last day with his dying parent…. thats such an emotional thing. Its just the rest of the movie that sucks so that the time u get to that ending u dont care.
It's like 6 different movies/tones in one
It's surreal, but the realization at the end was sweet
Though as an aside, TMZ has done SOME good by releasing footage of "important" things that otherwise wouldn't of been released…because people that suck even worse wanted money and knew they'd pay for it.
At the end of their one last day, when David went to dreamland, teddy (or the aliens) should have switched him off while living his happiest day
Came for a thoughtful analysis of AI artificial intelligence, left with 5 fewer IQ points. Yikes
aside from your dumb skits your reviews are good
It was an interesting movie, but I have to be honest. I think I may be the only one who thought David's bond with his mom was borderline creepy and sensual. Like unnatural. I get he loved his mother endlessly, but dang, the tone of it was kind of…yikes…
I watched this movie in a foreign country. Being the only native English speaker (I like to blame that) I was bawling in this movie so I liked the ending. ^_^
Listening to your annoying voice must have been a punishment in ancient times. Goddamn thank gods we didn't cross paths.
Heartwarming movie, might be the biggest tragedy that year, 4/10
Idk why but this movie was really depressing to me when I saw it as a kid. And I haven’t watched it since then and I just thought it was too dark for Spielberg. Not that Spielberg can’t do dark stuff but I just found this story too sad for my taste.
Haley Joel Osment acts like Toshio Saeki from The Grudge, who in turn, looks like a half-boy, half-dolphin hybrid.
honestly as a child I enjoyed this, not enough to really remember most of it but I don't dislike it
I skinned my furby, and called him darth vader
The robot kid is a metaphor for Spielberg trying to do a real Kubrick film
This was 8 years ago, yet after Nostalgia Critic shows the Chris Rock stunt… the TMZ skit shows Will Smith first. interesting