This movie is rather funny and like some of the other viewers, the main song has stuck with me since the movie was first released. One point this movie tried to make is that there can never be enough montages. Without all the musical montages in this movie, the film would have lasted only thirty-minutes or so. Anyway, if your in the mood for a movie with a strange love triangle that doesn't involve questioning a characters sexuality, watch this.

Electric Dreams (1984) is a good fun film about a geeky office worker Miles Harding who has problems with his organisation skills and buys a computer to help him out.

Meanwhile Miles has a new neighbour in the form of Madeline (Madsen), Miles soon falls in love with Madeline and the pair start dating.

Everything seems to be going OK for Miles but there is a problem, his COMPUTER!!!! The Computer called Edgar is alive and jealous of the relationship, he too has fallen in love with Madeline and will do anything to wreck the relationship, he wants Madeline all to himself, funny stuff!!! The film has a really good 80's feel about it and has a brilliant soundtrack, the film itself would be average but it's a lot better than average thanks to the computer. Edgar the computer makes this movie a winner and a guilty pleasure!!! Highly recommended for fans of 80's movies, 7/10 for Electric Dreams.

This movie is about an architect living in San Francisco that buys a computer to help organize his life. Thanks to a unwanted computer overload and champagne spillage develops a mind of its own. This results in havoc between Miles and his neighbor Madeline who develop a relationship. Soon the three are involved in a love triangle between man, woman and machine.

This movie a great soundtrack with Culture Club and Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder0. The films style has a zippy pace and feels like watching a long music video. This aspect of the film hasn't dated, however some of the technology has which is fun to look back and view.

Overall, this is a lovable romantic computer fantasy and has a soft spot in my heart.

They don't make 'em like this anymore. Watching a restored version of this film on DVD put a smile on my face. It's a warm science fiction romance about an electronic prodigy with the sensibilities of a child come to life.

Miles is the proverbial introvert who has a relatively good job, and is smitten by an arrival of the opposite sex in his building. But at the same time Miles, being a paper and pencil architect, is wondering how he can get his life organized. He goes for the obvious option of seeking a left brained solution. In other words; a computer.

But the logic circuits of keyboard, monitor and printer cannot compare to the ultimate solution of a second mind in the form of a the fairer sex. Miles discovers the thing that a computer can not give him, and Edgar, his computer, discovers what he cannot have and has always misunderstood about human feelings.

It's a simple film with lots of cinematic trickery to make it appear bigger than it actually is. It's a film about heart and mind, and about which wins out over the other. It's a classic tale of the mind finding the heart, and the heart finding peace of mind with another soul.

One of the appealing things is seeing various exteriors shot locally, including a local radio personality whom I used to listen to on KMEL, the Blue Angels, Palace of Fine Arts and a number of other places. The music is of course classic 80's fare, and the primitive electronic tones highlight's the time and theme

It's a delightful warm-hearted film that I waited many years to see again in its full widescreen glory, and relive some younger days when things were a little more innocent, and a little more lively. When computers needed dialup modems, electronic music had just come into its own, and video games were still using cartridges (note the Activision cartridges for the Atari 2600 behind Miles when he purchases his computer, Edgar).

Well, I waited well over 20 years to see it, and I'm glad I did. It's the kind of simple and loving film that I would be proud to shoot for the rest of my life. It has heart, it has warmth, it is a segment of 1980s San Francisco Bay Area that puts a smile on this viewers face. It is electronic romance San Francisco 1980's style.

Please watch it and enjoy, but try not to be too judgmental.

With the one of the best romantic songs performed in the history of cinema..."Electric Dreams by Giorgio Moroder", who was also the composer of the soundtrack for this movie.

Yes, welcome to the pop 80's, with the first computers, who looks in todays "Internet era" slightly obsolete, simple, but cute romances and naturally, trendy pop music which gives a special push for love scenes. Sure, I was only a little boy, when I saw this one in 1984, but despite the simplicity I fell a love with it. Maybe it was, because of a very cute blond Madeline or maybe it was for computers, which was very popular in our country back than. Beats me. But, I'm sure that there was one thing I didn't forget. An above mentioned front song.

It followed me through all these years, and in October 2003 I finally get a chance to see my childhood love again. How was it?

Well, it didn't touched me, like back in the past, until the romantic ending where I felt again this great felling of the 80's when everything seemed so simple...

So, all in all, Electric dreams will always have a special place in my heart, although it has some flaws, simple script and some holes in the story...but hey, it's either you fall in love with this one or it will leave you cold...I had to decided it, so I rented it again, and the rest you know, if you read my critic:)

7 out of 10

(with a special ticket to my top 10 most special movies)

A decent enough piece of film, and one that works just fine, when say, every channel on TV has an infomercial, wrestling, and a reality show on. I saw this when it went to HBO, or Showtime in late 1984, or early '85. I recall it WAS NOT a box office champ, by any means.

The leads are both very likeable, and Bud Court's "EDGAR", works just fine. What I noticed was a very "not-quite American" feel to it. Even though it is set in San Fransisco, the movie felt European. The pacing of some of the lines, and some of the interior shots could have just as well been in London.

See it for the chemistry between the three(!) and do enjoy the standard 80's format for a movie. Strong sound track, pretty stars, somewhat implausible(For 1984 technology)plot!

The film itself has a certain charme and is very 80s. But ultimately it's also fairly boring, mainly as there isn't much in terms of a story and the musis scenes are incredibly long and drawn out. But it is quite intersting in terms of what people in the 80s thought about the future of computers. Mainy functions the computer takes on were total science fiction at the time but are noew a normal part of any smart home. Most digital natices won't get how absurd many things were to the 80s audience. Although there is no proper explanation as to why the computer gets his powers the ethical implications of artificial intelligence are actually quite interesting. Although a typical 80s romcom today it is actually food for thought.

Electric Dreams is a quirky '80's film that has remained one of my favorites from that decade. The story of a boy, a girl, and a computer trying to find the meaning of love could have easily been a ridiculously campy movie, but instead is played out with a lighthearted sincerity. Lenny Von Dolen's portrayal of architect Miles Harding is done well, conveying the feelings of insecurity and wonder of falling in love for the first time, and Virginia Madsen's performance as would-be girlfriend Madeline equally shines. The movie is shot more like a music video (Director Steve Barron also worked on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" video), and while there have been plenty of films that have used similar "MTV-style" techniques in the '90's, this was an unpioneered format at the time, and it seems to work the best here. The set design is great, the scene pacing doesn't drag on, and the sentiment is in the right place so that viewers can laugh at the humorous parts and relate during the romantic scenes. The music soundtrack is also top-notch, with music from Culture Club, Jeff Lynne, Heaven 17 and Giorgio Moroder. The computer technology and the commercials set this movie firmly in the early '80's, which may make it seem a little dated, but the overall story still holds up well and is fun. Electric Dreams is an enjoyable romantic fantasy that a lot of people may have missed when it was first released (even more so since the film seems to be out of print), but for those wanting to see something a little different, this may be what you've been looking for.

After arriving late for work a colleague of Miles Harding suggests he gets an electronic organiser. He is unsure but goes to the shop and ends up buying a state of the art computer, which he hopes will help him with his work as an architect. He sets it up and because of a typo it addresses him as 'Moles', apart from that it seems fine and helps control his house. He then thinks it would be a good idea to download his work's database; this causes the computer to overheat and he throws a glass of champagne over it in a panic! He doesn't know it at first but this causes his computer to become sentient. Soon after it starts mimicking sounds it hears; including the sound of Madeline, the upstairs neighbour, practicing her cello. She thinks it is Miles and befriends him believing him to be the musician. They grow closer and her tries to get the computer to write a song for him to give her. To do that he must teach it about love. When the computer starts to fall in love with Madeline his troubles really begin.

It must be stated that this is a fairly lightweight film... if it weren't for the various musical scenes it would be about half its length and it isn't long to begin with. That said it is rather fun and is likely to be nostalgic for anybody who watched it in the '80s. The idea of a love triangle where one 'person' is actually a computer is novel and the way the newly sentient machine went from curious learner to borderline psychotic was enjoyably and mildly disturbing. Lenny Von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen are solid as Miles and Madeline and Bud Cort is great as the voice of the increasingly troubled computer. Overall I'd say this is lightweight froth but sometimes that is just what one wants to watch.

I was subjected to this film during tenth grade computer studies class, and it was alright, but definitely nothing to spend any money to watch. It tells the rather quirky tale of a man, Miles, who manages supposedly to win the favour of his next-door neighbour, Madeline, through beautiful music that is played by his intelligent, state-of-the-art computer, with its own built-in personality. The problem, of course, is that the intelligent computer then competes with Miles as to who gets the girl. Emotions run high, as you would obviously expect.

It's an interesting look at the computer age from the early, formulative stages of it but these days it really does look quite silly and dated. It's nothing more than your average take on man vs. machine and the tension never really grips you. The direction is mediocre, as are the performances, and the 'special effects' regarding the computer are frankly feeble, even for its time.

I think the only people who could really get anything from this film are computer lovers, or romance lovers, but it's just another flick for everybody else. ** / *****

This movie takes us back to 1984, a time when computers were still mysterious machines which inspired notions of science fiction in the minds of average persons.

I was only 12 years old when I first saw this movie on HBO back in 1984(5?). This movie really captured my imagination. Computers fascinated me and "Electric Dreams" bolstered that fascination with a fluid plot, dazzling special effects, and a captivating soundtrack. The music, in particular is so good, I could still sing/hum the tunes for years after first seeing the movie. My favorite has to be the "Duel" song between a cello and the computer. Wild, wacky, wonderful stuff!

Now if that summary didn't totally confuse you, I am glad! This is a movie I saw when I was in college and, while I would freely admit it was a really silly and dopey film, it still had a lot of charm and I'm glad I saw it.

In particular, I loved the music--even the stuff from (yuck) Boy George. The Giorgio Moroder theme was great and Jeff Lynne's songs were FAR better than the lousy songs he contributed to the rotten film, XANADU. The other contributors also did a good job. I even went so far as to pick up a copy of the album.

Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen were both fine in the movie--he as a nerdy and hopeless nice guy and she as a beautiful cellist. The ULTRA-STRANGE plot involves Lenny buying a home computer than soon begins showing evidence of a personality. Ultimately, the computer and Lenny fall for Madsen and it is all wrapped together for a happy ending (what else?). Strange yes, but also rather watchable. And, as an interesting curio from the mid-80s, it's worth a look!

I saw this film many years ago as a young boy and remembered that it was very funny. So last year I made a vigil to make sure I saw it again, and I was not disappointed when I did. Considering the way computers are taking over our lives, this film is ingenious in the way we are shown how a computer can change your life and also help you become a better person. I wish I had a computer just like Edgar!

Miles Harding is what you might call a loser. He is an architect who is at the cross-roads of his job and the rest of his life is unorganised. However, when a friend tells Miles to get an electronic organiser to help put his life back into order, he gets something he didn't bargain for. Miles purchases a computer, that just happens to have artificial intelligence. To make things worse, he has a new neighbour, a beautiful young woman named Madeline. Things start to get heated when Miles and his computer ‘Edgar', both fall in love with Madeline. The sparks are sure to fly when things turn into an ‘Electric Dream'!

This is a priceless movie. Sure it was made in 1984 and it is a bit dated, but that takes nothing away from how great it is. The storyline is probably my favourite part of the film. The way the audience sees Miles and Edgar having a relationship, and then seeing Miles trying to counteract that with the beautiful Madeline, was just hilarious. Edgar really does steal the show, with his stubborn ways and funny antics, making it an hilarious experience to watch him. His character is for me similar to the TV show Knight Rider, where we see a man talking to a car, who has a similar personality to that of Edgar.

The cast of Electric Dreams was very very good. Miles was played by actor Lenny von Dohlen. He was great in his role and really does make the audience feel that ‘Edgar' is taking control of his life. Then you have the delightful Madeline, played by actress Virginia Madison. While her character knows nothing about Miles and his computer, she plays the part of Miles girlfriend extremely well. Virginia has been in some very big films. These include the Haunting alongside stars Catherine Zeta Jones and Liam Nelson, The Rainmaker and the steamy drama, After Sex. The voice of Edgar the computer belongs to actor Bud Cort, who did a brilliant job. His humour and voiceover talents were out of this world. He has had an impressive career, appearing in the TV comedy series MASH, with his other movies including Dogma and Coyote Ugly.

This movie had a great script and that was thanks to a man by the name of Rusty Lemorande. I feel he got it just right and that it had the right amount of humour with a dash of serious romance. Then take on board the great work by director Steve Barron, he put the film together with just the right amount of his touches. I believe he had a big impact on how the audience sees the funny and naughty side to Edgar.

This then takes me to the other great part of this film, the soundtrack. I will never forget the first attempt Edgar makes at trying to write a love song, it was hilarious. Then you have the real songs like Video by Jeff Lynne, Love is Love by Culture Club, Electric Dreams by P.P Arnold and the best song on the whole soundtrack, Together in a Electric Dreams by Human League with Philip Oakey. That song is very infectious and makes me happy everytime I hear it.

In conclusion, I loved everything about Electric Dreams. It is a funny look at how crazy love can be and that with a little patience everything can work out for the best. Edgar says something that I totally agree with `that love is about give and take', I stand by that rule. If you are in a relationship that is not abiding by that rule, then you should rethink about why you are in it. It is a two way street when two people commit to each other. Madeline's comments in the end of the film prove that. Though it is innocent, this film also proves how valuable a tool something like a computer or the internet can be, and how evil it can be, by taking over your life. A person recently asked me ‘how can a film score a perfect 10?' I say it is up to the individual's own opinion. I love this film immensely and can only recommend you get a bit of a shock by hiring Electric Dreams!

Rating: 5 stars or 10/10

Miles Harding (Lenny von Dohlen) is a San Francisco architect working on an earthquake-proof brick. He buys a computer and connects it to his home. He downloads everything and spills champagne onto the computer. Madeline Robistat (Virginia Madsen) moves in upstairs. The computer becomes fascinated with her cello playing and joins in. Madeline thinks it's Miles playing. They start dating with the computer creating music for Madeline and Miles taking the credit. That is until the computer revolt.

This was movie computing. It's absolutely silly but it's probably one of the most romantic computer movies. It's 80's-tastic. It takes bits from Cyrano de Bergerac and gives it an alternate ending. It's got the synthpoppy Video and quite a few fun songs. It's got the lovely Virginia Madsen and nerd-hunky Lenny von Dohlen. It's completely silly but charming nonetheless.

Director Steve Bannon Stepped Off the Then Trendy "Music-Video" MTV Stage, where He Married Music and Images for the Best of the Bunch. Michael Jackson, etc.

Deciding to See What He Could Do with a Feature Film.

What Resulted was this Highly-Entertaining One-Off of the Emerging Consideration of Just What Impact These New-Fangled Electronic Machines Called "Personal Computers" (PCs) would or could Do and the Impact of such an Exponential Growth of Capabilities and Functions.

He Blended a Triangular Rom-Com Scenario where the 3rd Person is an Inanimate Machine.

Sci-Fi Literature is Ripe with Computers, Robots, and Machines becoming "Sentient'' and Wreaking Havoc of Varying Degrees...

Issac Asimov's "I Robot" (1950), Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968), of Course Made into the Film "Blade Runner" (1982), and there was a "Twilight Zone" Episode from 1964 Titled "From Agnes - With Love".

But it's Accurate to Say that Bannon's Film and Story was Existential at the Time with the Avalanche of PC's Becoming Available and Affordable for "Desk-Tops" Everywhere. So the Core of the Story has Precedence, it's the "Now" that is "New".

The Movie has Many Layers that Make Up the Romp. Some are Romantic, Sweet, and Fluffy.

Filled with Endless "Songs" and Music, but the "Upbeat" is Invaded by some Nasty, Unsettling, Horrors, and Thriller Tropes.

From this Forgotten Entry in the AI Genre to "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995) to "Her" (2013) to Spielberg's "A. I. Artificial Intelligence" (2001) there are No Shortage of Films that Could be Included in the "Cyberpunk" Genre. This is One of the Earliest of its Type.

A Solid Movie that Fits Comfortably with those Others Mentioned, and it Brings Along its Own Charm and Entertainment and Should Not be Over-Looked.

For Nerds, Computer Geeks, and Sci-Fi Fans, it's a Must-See/

For All Others, it's...

Worth a Watch.

This is a fun, lighthearted movie about boy meets girl meets computer! Of course, the plot is a little cheesy and silly but none of that really matters when it's fun and takes us back to a simpler time. What makes it fun comes from the context of technology in the 1980s. Early home personal computers struggled with storage capacity and computing power to do little more than write a short letter and play primitive games, and their future role in the home was still being questioned.

Watching this film these days is a little laughable and a bit unsettling because of how far the technology has come, and as such it hits a bit different. There's less suspension of belief now which actually makes it a bit more distracting from the main plot than a simple fairy-tale. It throws a lot of shade on the film that was not originally intended because of how much it predicted that it got right.

We don't need to spill champagne on the circuit board to have a computer to perform a good facsimile of artificial sentience and intelligence when we have functioning chat bots using language learning models. And although there'd be huge network dropouts and long waiting times, our computers would not fry themselves trying to download the internet over a dial-up telephone modem! Leaving our computer on for hours hooked up to home automation isn't far fetched anymore either, and getting our news from the internet is commonplace - even if we don't need to make hardcopies of it! I just warn that you will have to suspend your thinking about the legal implications and health impacts of what damage that computer causes by the end of the film.

The arc of the computer learning about love mirrors the protagonists journey in learning to love. To that end it succeeds and the ending pays off thematically as well, because that's what it was really aiming for.

One thing I will say is that a fun film can never have too many montages, and Giorgio Moroder's end sequence music "Together in Electric Dreams" is a classic 80s hit that is still great even today.

I remember back in the l970s I saw a TV film with Bill Bixby in which he had a computer that fell in love with his girlfriend and composed poems for Bixby to give to her. I thought that's what Electric Dreams was based on, but haven't heard anyone admit that's the way it came about. But anyway.....

Electric Dreams is one of those films that even with some slightly dated technology in it (circa 1984, and even for this film some of the technology is stuff most people don't have in their homes yet!) the story and its effectiveness are timeless. It has a very strong European influence to it that I appreciated--director Steve Barron has a true flair for combining nice visuals and story without each element bogging the other down.

Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) buys a computer to help in his quest to design the perfect earthquake-proof brick. He spills a drink on the keyboard, giving it life in the form of the voice Edgar (Bud Cort). In the meantime, cellist Madeline (Virginial Madsen) moves in upstairs and guess who starts to like Madeline a LOT?....

Several elements make this a winner: The fact that the lead actors Lenny Von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen were cast (relatively unknown actors then) instead of flavor-of-the-month ones. Bud Cort was a brilliant choice for the voice of Edgar in the computer. The music was obviously lesser known to mainstream U.S. audiences but well loved in Europe. Culture Club was a bit established, but artists like Heaven 17, Jeff Lynne (of ELO), Philip Oakey (of Human League), P.P. Arnold, and Helen Terry gave the film a great atmosphere with original songs that still hold up quite well today (yes, the soundtrack is available as an import on CD). I'm proud to say I have the 12" remixes of the songs "Together In Electric Dreams," "Now You're Mine," and "Video" as well as the soundtrack.

You don't have to exclusively like romance stories to enjoy this film. It has a little of everything for everyone, and invites repeated viewings. It's charming, will make you laugh, and I dare you to not get a little teary-eyed when the phrase "I LOVE YOU ...ME" appears on the computer screen to the beautiful music piece "Madeline's Theme" from Giorgio Moroder.

Two scenes in particular will have you feeling exhilarated--when Madeline and Edgar do a musical duet of a familiar classical piece, and the ending where the song "Together In Electric Dreams" is bringing everyone in the city of San Francisco to their feet dancing. It will give you a rather overwhelming feeling of joy, and a completely satisfying ending. Just make sure to view all the way through the credits, there's a little surprise after them!

At the time this review was written, Electric Dreams is only on out-of-print VHS in the United States, but is available on a European region 2 DVD. MGM had been reissuing tons of films on DVD with no frills (except mislabled releases like Swamp Thing--not PG but actually the European cut, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2--not actually R but the unrated cut) and I plead with them that when this one is ever issued in the DVD format, that we are given some extras like an audio commentary and behind the scenes features. There must be some very wonderful stories to tell about this charming film and the loyal following it has.

As the tagline on the original cover read, it's "The most unusual triangle in the history of love." If only more people could be brought together like this and fall in love, the world would be a brighter place!

"Open up your eyes and you will see, love is love is everything to me..."

Electric Dreams is a typical cheesy 80's movie with one original idea: a computer being in love, in the days before computers were considered to be mundane machines. I admit that romantic comedies are generally not my favourite, but I did manage to sort of enjoy this one. It's 80's music, while not all that bad (it is a bit too sappy at times), gives it away as well.

The plot revolves around a geek, Miles, who falls in love with a woman next door, Madeline. Unfortunately, the computer does as well, so it is Miles versus a computer for a woman's affections, with the computer trying to cause trouble for Miles.

The acting is OK, if a bit sappy, but what do you expect from an 80's romantic comedy? Electric Dreams is an enjoyable experience; however, it is the computer that puts this movie above mediocrity. Without the computer, this would be another one of those cheesy, cookie-cutter man-versus-man romances which nobody would give much of a thought to.

3/5 stars

Young leads Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen, an appealing '80s soundtrack and a decorative direction from Steve Barron are almost enough to make computerized fairy tale worth watching. Nebbish architect in San Francisco, admonished by his superior for failing to keep a tight schedule, buys his first home computer to help straighten out his life. While working on a gizmo that will keep buildings safe during earthquakes, this not-nutty professor accidentally douses his new PC with champagne, which has the opposite effect of a malfunction: the computer is reborn with its own personality. Meanwhile, a pretty concert cellist has just moved in upstairs... Boy-girl meet-cute (with the computer playing both cupid and romantic adversary) inches itself along, engaging but in fits and starts, buoyed by Barron's music montages and Madsen's sunny smile. Rusty Lemorande's mercurial screenplay is a liability; the computer's impertinent nature coupled with the architect's bursts of irritability are off-putting ingredients in a featherweight doodle like this. The supporting characters never emerge, and Bud Cort's voice as Edgar the computer is a gimmick that doesn't come off. ** from ****

Steve Barron's "Electric Dreams" will almost certainly be one of the hardest movies to find, but if you can you should definitely check it out. It got released around the time when computers were starting to become part of everyone's lives, and it seems to be predicting just how much these devices would come to dominate our lives. Lenny Von Dohlen (never heard of him until I saw this movie) plays an architect who buys a computer to get better organized, but an unexpected event turns the thing into a sillier version of HAL...especially after the owner falls for his musician neighbor (a young Virginia Madsen).

At once piece of light entertainment and a look at relationships, this movie does it just right. Some scenes are probably just comic relief, like the concert, but the computer does teach the man a good lesson about life. You're bound to love what the computer does in the movie's last scene.

All in all, a really fun movie. I can't believe that it's out of print while tons of boring movies get special edition DVDs. Definitely check it out if you can. Watch for a young Miriam Margolyes as a ticket taker.

I rememeber hearing Giorgi Moroders Electric Dreams all the time at the local school dance back in 1984 in Denmark. Throw a silly 1980s party and watch this on VHS with your retro friends.

When viewing this film one must remember it was made in 1984. Starring Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and a computer... it is barely palatable rainy-Saturday-afternoon fare. Its primary plus is that it was Virginia Madsen's first movie and she came across well as the central romantic interest.

We can't judge this movie by today's standards. With Jurassic Park still nine years away, CGI at that time was in very primitive stages. The computer used a CRT screen and telephone modem. That gives the viewer a hint of the era. As such, the movie has fairly advanced concepts: speech recognition, artificial intelligence, computer data exchange (the World Wide Net was still some time in the future)... so in those aspects the movie was "interesting".

While I can't say this movie was a "stinker" (there are certainly far worse movies out there)... it is a yawner. The somewhat predictable plot as well as the "any old ending will do" wrap-up makes this an hour and a half of time to spend cleaning one's house instead. Parents would want to be cautioned about a singular and brief repetitive line of offensive language as the computer is learning to "speak"-- as well as increased cursing near the end of the movie.

Bottom line there is better fare to watch. Aside from the historical aspect (Madisen's first real role and the concept of computers in 1984)... this is one that can be skipped with no loss. The character drama was cliché and over-the-top, the script juvenile, the music seemingly thrown in just to promote the songs and sell the soundtrack (common for the 80s)... and the story not all that entertaining. Not family fare... and not really all that appealing to adults either, this flick is a "watch it once" movie-- if you must. I doubt many will watch it a second time.