What a weird thing to just now discover: an Andy Kaufman-starring comedy about two robots falling in love and going on the run. I never even knew it existed until today.

Now, I must stress, this is not a good film at all: awful dialogue, slow pacing and practically no story at the center of it. The machines inexplicably behave like people, when there is no reason for them to do so, and the people characters may as well be machines. The movie fails entirely at making you care for any of them or buy into any of the nonsense taking place. But it's also one of the quirkiest films you'll see, with striking visuals all the way through, and technical excellence in all the other departments.

If I was to try sum it up in words, I guess I would have to say it was a cobbled-together hodgepodge of Tron, Sleeper, Short Circuit, A. I. and Batman Returns, filmed by Wes Anderson from a script by an 11-year-old written on a Speak N Spell.

So no, it's not a good film, but it is sort of charming, in an 80s time capsule kind of way, and a pretty thing for your eyes to look at the once.

Buried somewhere underneath this disaster is an intelligent and well-written movie about two broken robots developing self-awareness and wandering off to form a family of sorts. The retro-futuristic styling, placement of vintage cars, and so-bad-they're-funny jokes of a Borscht Belt robot comedian all add to the good-natured appeal of a movie which doesn't take itself too seriously. There are, however, too many fatal flaws for this to work. Instead of having the actors act like robots, they're almost completely encased in a robot suit of armor which makes any actual acting impossible. Even some of the actors playing humans portray them in a robotic manner. Much of the movie consists of the robots wandering aimlessly through scenes that seem to have no thought put into them. As a final nail in the coffin, Andy Kaufman inexplicably chooses to use an annoying cartoon voice that falls somewhere between Leo Gorcey and Latka Gravas. The quirky nature of the film makes it worth watching as a curiosity piece, but only for film buffs willing to sit through just about anything.

I really wanted to like this movie, but the pacing was just way too slow.

It was a nice story, but it was really like watching a slug race.

The movie would have been better served, if it had some more action. I don't mean anything grand, but at least something in the background.

It could have also been helped by songs that set the tone/mood of the more lengthy periods that were absent of dialogue.

It's been about 10 years since I've seen it, so I may have to give it another chance.

3/10 or *1/2(out of four)