Michael's Movie Grade: B+
A fun and surprisingly heartwarming quirky comedy.
This movie is about a man (that is an amateur inventor and has invented many silly and useless as well as failed inventions) who builds a robot friend and likes cabbages. This may seem quite silly and it is. The movie though perfectly embraces this silliness and therefore it become easy for us to do the same thing. The film is full of strange and quirky humor, that may be plain weird but is still quite funny. What makes this movie work as well as it does is though is how much we truly care about these characters. Underneath all the silliness this is a film that constantly has its heart in the heart place. In a world that has become so cynical, it is always wonderful to visit a movie as good-hearted and non-cynical as this. Because of this is the type of film that you leave the theater with a smile on your face, not just because some of the jokes made you laugh but because it made you simply feel good. The relationship between the two title characters is very heartwarming and despite the silliness of the friendship existing is completely believable. Even when the two argue, you can still feel how much they care about each other. There is also a romance in this movie, and it is also well handled. It is very sweet and heartwarming, yet never distracts from the main relationship in this movie. All of this leads to a surpassingly exciting (if still silly) climax that works beautifully. Yet none of this gets in the way of the weird quirky humor, that most moviegoers would see this film excepting.
On the downside despite the quirkiness, this movie's plot follows a very conventional thread, and it is always easy to predict what will happen next. Also, the mockumentary approach doesn't really add much and leads to the film's least funny gags.
This is simply a delightful and charming movie that is also really silly.
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