Malkovich seemed to have a lot of fun in one of his most lighthearted roles ever, and there’s quite a bit of physical comedy to his performance that had me doing double takes because I’ve never seen him do comedy in this way before. Right has a decidedly feminine approach to it, and its director Susan Seidelman ( Desperately Seeking Susan) infuses the film with style and verve. When Frankie finds herself strangely infatuated and in love with the android, is it the android she’s loving, or the guy who created it?Ī very delightfully ’80s romantic comedy with a twist, Making Mr. The whole purpose for Ulysses is to send it to space on an unmanned mission to take the place of humans, and so all this love stuff mixes Ulysses up to the point that it can seriously malfunction. Ulysses is totally eager to experience everything, including sex, love, eating, and anything where it can learn and adapt, leading to some brand new rewiring in its synapses, which enrages Peters, who never intended its creation to become a love-sick and preoccupied lover. The android’s name is Ulysses, and it’s very childlike and new to the world, and so Frankie takes it out on the town a few times, resulting in some amusing fish out of water scenarios (like when she buys trendy clothes for it for the first time). The idea to present the android to the public and make it seem relatable is appealing to Frankie, and so she takes the job. Right has a decidedly feminine approach to it, and its director Susan Seidelman ( Desperately Seeking Susan) infuses the film with style and verve.Ī PR executive gets the opportunity to do a PR campaign for the world’s first humanoid android, but she ends up falling in love with it!Īfter falling for a deadbeat local politician she did a PR campaign for, attractive and “with it” Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is on the romantic rebound when she accepts an invitation to do a PR campaign for a nerdy scientist and inventor named Jeff Peters (John Malkovich) who has created an amazing android copy of himself. Right." And we can only conclude that women have decided that machinery is less trouble than men.A very delightfully ’80s romantic comedy with a twist, Making Mr. Yes, we have come a long way in the decade that separates "Looking for Mr. Even if the boy is made of plastic and the girl is a woman of the '80s who owns a PC and saw "$6 Million Man." But love prevails. Of course, as we all know, boy who meets girl must lose girl. Thus revamped, Ulysses breaks out of the lab, has a brief encounter with mall culture, and finally becomes a celebutante. Frankie Stone teaches Ulysses to look into a person's eyes and act interested in what he or she says. Right.Īnn Magnuson, a comedian with limited experience in film, may be well-built, but she certainly proves bland as imagemaker Frankie (nudge, nudge) Stone. When this lovable bucket of bolts is not onscreen, it becomes all the more obvious that something went wrong while they were "Making Mr. Jeff Peters and his creation Ulysses, the only sympathetic character in the bunch. It's a premise with comic promise, but it sputters like a dying can of mousse. Real woman meets replicant when she's hired by the Chemtech Corporation to turn the android Ulysses into the perfect talk-show guest - to gain publicity and therefore more funds for continuing the robotics project that produced him. The message can be summed up in a quote from the uncorrupted (or is it uncorroded?) component-parts hero: "When people learn how to love and care for those who love them, then they may become more than just machines." (Love means never having to say you're soldered?) Screenwriters Floyd Byars and Laurie Frank's flapjack-flat characters meander through a slack plot that aims to address love between life-forms. Right," a well-dressed but disappointing encore for "Desperately Seeking Susan" director Susan Seidelman. Frankenstein's piteous monster the reverse - both of them more persuasively than this "Mr. Yes, "Blade Runner" has already pondered the question, and Dr. Malkovich stars in this romantic interface between bionic boy and retrofitted girl, a comic love story that asks, Can a living doll have a meaningful relationship with an artificially intelligent, anatomically correct android? (And if so, why not just date your Dustbuster?) Right," would he look like John Malkovich? That is to say pasty-faced, gawky and going bald? Myself, I would be thinking more along the lines of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive 1987" Harry Hamlin, or maybe Remar Sutton. Right' (PG-13) By Rita KempleyĪsk yourself this question: If you were "Making Mr.
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