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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled
An eleven-million-dollar fugitive robot shuffles into a police station...shackled in handcuffs! Could it be? Is this what happens when a thoroughly reputable robot visits the city for the first time? Number Five from Short Circuit is back, this time as Johnny Five in the fantasy comedy Short Circuit 2. Johnny's inventor Ben (Fisher Stevens) has left Nova Robotics and moved to the city to start the Titanic Toy Corporation ("like the ship"). This means that Ben is living in a truck and working on the streets, making a meager living peddling toy Number Five robots. When Ben's handiwork is noticed by Sandy Banatoni (Cynthia Gibb), an assistant toy buyer for a major department store, she offers him $50,000 if he can come up with 1,000 Number Fives. It isn't easy to build that many robots in a battered old truck, particularly when you're living in it, but Johnny Five, Sandy and Ben's former inventor-partner Newton all pitch in to get the job accomplished. Johnny becomes a one-man assembly line, but he fails to reckon with the wiles of the big city, where he's mistaken for a bad modern sculpture, harassed by street gangs, perplexed by a priest and runs afoul of a scheming banker with ulterior motives. And it also doesn't help that Ben has fallen in love with Sandy!
"Okay for kids, with some chuckles for adults..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Two thumbs up! Even better than the original." Siskel & Ebert
Editor's Note
Wacky robot Johnny Five breaks free of his bonds once more, striking out for the urban wilds of New York City in search of excitement and fun. But hardened city slickers make an easy mark of the guileless 'bot and try to exploit Johnny Five for some quick, ill-gotten cash.
Plot Summary
A sweet-natured robot called Johnny Five escapes from its lab and wanders around the big city with only curiosity to guide him. His silly inventor, an Indian man who ludicrously butchers the English language, teams up with some local retailers to re-capture his wayward creation. Meanwhile, the plucky robot is in danger of falling into the greedy hands of a businessman who wants to turn the automaton into a motorized jewel thief.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Making-Of Featurette: Actor Profile On Fisher Stevens | | Bonus Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | Chinese Subtitles | | Korean Subtitles | | Thai Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | French Subtitles | | Portuguese Subtitles | | Portuguese Audio | | French Audio | | English Subtitles | | Widescreen And Fullscreen Presentations | | English 2-Channel Dolby Surround | | Spanish Audio | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 9/2/2003 |
| Running Time: 111 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 05995 | | UPC: 00043396059955 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...Wilson and Maddock have improved considerably here....Their construction is more deft, their dialogue is better, and they make Number Five come more alive..." 07/06/1988 p.C1Washington Post 6 of 10
...[Director Kenneth] Johnson pulls heartstrings with the best of them--or the worst, if you hate that sort of thing... if you're a kid, or an adult with an Erector Set, you might just enjoy this summer-weight caper. - Rita Kempley
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