Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man 2 Movie Review

Like most sequels, this one's about half as good as the original. It tells essentially the same futuristic story about a romantic robot (Jim Metzler), a tough woman (Deborah Shelton), and the villainous Plughead (Vernon Wells) who lives to share other people's pain and terror directly. It shares most of the first film's strengths and weaknesses, too, but has a stronger emphasis on comedy, much of it broad and hammy, with two supporting characters whose appearance and shtick could have come straight from the mad scientists on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Recommended for fans of the original only. AKA: Circuitry Man 2.

1994 (R) 97m/C Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, Jim Metzler, Dennis Christopher, Nicholas Worth, Traci Lords; D: Steven Lovy, Robert Lovy; W: Steven Lovy, Robert Lovy. VHS COL