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www.moria.co.nz - : Electric Dreams is a sweet little film. The playful computer-styled credits promisingly announce it as a ‘fairy-tale for computers’. After all at that point we had had computers and robots with sexual needs - Demon Seed (1977), Saturn 3 (1980) - why not romantic ones as well ? But what follows is all a little too po-faced towards its subject to work. It lacks the promised effervescence, it is merely earnestly enthused when it should be colourfully tongue-in-cheek. And what should have been dizzy slapstick emerges as only heavy-handed. The romance is pleasant but bland - Virginia Madsen is, as always, fine but Lenny Von Dohlen, of unsettlingly piercing eyes, is played as an incredible drip. more...
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efilmcritic.com - : So Mr. Proto Computer User gets one those fancy new Home Computers and programs it to control all his householdy functions, like lights and doors and coffee makers. So far we are right in a Ray Bradbury story and you know something has to got to go wrong. more...
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