Short Circuit 2

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Megabytes of input! Get ready for a very spirited discussion about this surprisingly ambitious 1988 comedy. It probably seems strange to revisit the sequel without looking at the original Short Circuit, but we all realized that we have much clearer and fonder memories of this one.

Short Circuit 2 has so much more going for it than any of us could possibly have anticipated. For a kids movie about a talking robot, this slapstick fish-out-of-water story is also brimming with moral dilemmas, spiritual quandaries, and philosophical ponderings. We're not making this up! And because the filmmakers chose to make a movie that was actually about something rather than going for a simple cash grab, we were able to enjoy this one just as much as adults as we did as children.

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Short Circuit 2?
0:06.3	Hello and welcome, Hey, Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up today.
0:31.0	I'm Chris.
0:32.0	I'm Donna.
0:33.2	I'm Carlos.
0:34.3	And today we're revisiting Short Circuit 2.
0:37.6	Some say he's nuts.
0:39.7	To the moon, Alice.
0:42.6	Some say he's votes.
0:47.0	But everyone agrees he's America's most electric leading man.
0:51.8	Oh, yeah, I'm home.
0:54.0	Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 comedy directed by Kenneth Johnson,
0:58.0	written by Brent Maddock and SS Wilson,
1:00.6	and starring Fisher Stevens and Michael McKean.
1:03.2	Steve Guttenberg and Ali Sheedy are a no-show in the sequel,
1:06.3	so Stevens Ben Javari character has been upgraded from Zany sidekick to leading man.
1:11.4	He's a recent New York City transplant who in a single day goes from being a sidewalk huckster
1:15.9	to co-owner of a company that's manufacturing toy versions of the robots from the first film.
1:21.4	There's a ham-fisted reunion with Johnny Five, some nonsense about diamonds being stored in a bank vault,
1:26.5	and a lot more existential exploration than you'd ever expect to find in a kids movie.
1:31.7	Donna, what do you remember about short-circuit dose?
1:35.4	Well, I remember not very much, actually.
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