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Two boys follow in their late fathers foot steps by inventing weird and wonderful gadgets. Trouble lies ahead when after a halloween party the spirit of their father ends up in the latest invention, a robot.
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!
1991 ‘And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird’ Directed by Tony Cookson
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Conservative, overly judge-y 'values' (people who commit suicide are terrible people and also there's heaven) are mixed with new age-y boomer hippie-isms about moving on into the cosmic ether or whatever. Oh and robot technology stealing bad guys because of course there are. But Homer from Near Dark and Rayanne Graff from My So-Called Life playing with a Ouija board at a Halloween party is like an out-of-body experience.
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Ouija board throws the soul of Alan Thicke's voice into the robot his children built. Audience is initially made to believe he committed suicide. There's some suggestion of human-robot sexual coupling. Actually really, really depressing.
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not gonna lie i thought this movie would be a little lighter but there's a very real very weird pervasive undercurrent of grief running through this that i really wasn't expecting, which is maybe on me because it's a dead dad movie, but also it's a dead dad movie about a dead dad who lives inside of a robot? i've gotta say there's some insanely mismatched energy here like i'm not implying this movie gets meaningfully heavy about the loss of a parent i just felt confused watching this attempting to parse the tone. i will say one thing i myself was clear about feelings wise is i really hope the mom had sex with her dead husband whose consciousness rests inside the shell of a robotic vacuum because that's kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity imo!
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I'm sick in bed and I streamed this dumb robutt movie with friends and we all had a laugh at Alan Thicke's robutt voices and advances and that was good enough for me.
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Not for me. But when I watched it, it was the perfect thing to take my mind off of more pressing matters that I have no control over. So light and perfectly manipulative. I really do like Joshua John Miller as a performer. And that baked-in Disney style, with the over-emphasis of visual set-up.
Well it was fine, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. If that makes sense.
The right film, at the right time.
Thanks Marna Larsen you done me a solid. I appreciate it.
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ALAN THICKE IN HIS GREATEST ROLE
The strangest assortment of wish fulfillment I've ever seen, from geek gets the girl to dead dad comes back. The poster alone should be enough to send us all screaming to our therapists. If we could afford therapists. The song over the credits ("Love Breaks All the Rules") clenches it.
Alan Thicke must have been laughing his way through his dialogue, but it doesn't show. Joshua John Miller (the "young" vampire in Near Dark and the screenwriter of The Final Girls) carries the film. We also have Marcia Strassman (M*A*S*H*, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) as the mom and A.J. Langer (The People Under the Stairs, My So-Called Life) as the love interest. Edan…
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"YOU'LL GO LOCO FOR MY COCOA!" - the spirit of Alan Thick's Dad character, now in a robot body, pretending to have a robot voice so his wife doesn't realize the robot is in fact her dead husband.
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The reporter lady plays way too evil and the complex theological implications of death and grieving is not evil enough.
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Why have only 342 users logged this?! This is on Tubi AND it's a harmless family movie for all us nineties kids. Suicide is mentioned though so it may require a discussion beforehand or after. Also, another warning, you're not going to laugh at all. You're just going to be reminded of that time in your life where you did. Oof, that's dark.
FFO: Free Willy, Dunston Checks In, Flubber, formulaic and illogical children's movies
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Harmless sci-fi fantasy has just enough B-movie charm to raise it slightly above its low budget limitations. The acting is pretty decent and the visual effects good enough to make it a worthwhile viewing. Two brothers build a robot and the soul of their recently deceased father (voiced by Alan Thicke) returns to Earth to inhabit its metal frame. The attempts at humor don’t always land, but its affable goofiness keeps it going for the most part.