A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • When hitching a ride, the love robot shows the teens in the cab he torched on male's genetial, a stripper dancing in a laser light. It is small, but you can clearly make out that it is a seductively dressed woman.
  • A male character makes female sex sounds which lasts very brief.
  • A character is a male prostitute. We see him flirting with woman and preparing for sex, though nothing is shown. Discussion about sex.
  • A character asks for a ride to a town, promising teens in the car prostitutes in their destination.
  • A woman wears a cleavage revealing dress.
  • Mild sexual innuendos. Most of them are funny.

Violence & Gore

  • A boy takes a metal object and slowly stab the arm of a robot boy. He reacts which triggers his defence mechanism and therefore holds another boy and they both fall in the pool. The boy is saved from drowning.
  • A robot boy violently trashes a room after being taunted by his clones.
  • At the Flesh Fair, mecha are seen being brutally killed in many ways.
  • One of Joe's "women" is found lying dead in a hotel room. Little blood is seen to the edge of the bed. Her husband found out about her robot romances and killed her for it.

Profanity

  • GD is used at least once

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Adults drink wine with a meal.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Many of the robots in this film have realistic human faces and features on otherwise very mechanical looking robot bodies.
  • A comedian mecha gets shot out of a cannon into a high-speed fan. The mecha gets obliterated and its face hits the bars of the "Pig Pen" where the captured mecha are being held.
  • A nanny mecha gets buckets of acid dumped on her and her face melts as she smiles. Her remains are seen being dragged away.
  • The whole arc of David is to love his mother, but is rejected by her due to him not being a human.
  • This is actually a very disturbing film - emotionally harrowing, and frightening in many scenes.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The protagonist mecha David gets provoked and baited into eating spoonfuls of food (mecha aren't supposed to eat). David's face and eyes begins to sag as he malfunctions.
  • When Joe and David make it to Professor Hobby's office, David is greeted by another Mecha that looks just like him and also claims to be David. The protagonist David becomes enraged and hits this other Mecha in the face with a metal lamp. The initial strike violently strips away the outer layer of skin, revealing the mecha's blue insides before David eventually decapitates him and the head lands at Joe's feet. Joe becomes frightened and backs away.
  • Monica drives David and stroll in a forest. She is actually abandoning David. They both break down for separating.
  • David wonders into a room full of his clones.
  • The entire ending shows David finally getting his wish by spending one day with Monica. Very emotional.
  • The most heart-breaking scene is where Monica says to David "I do love you. I have always loved you".
  • The narrator says the final line "And for the first time in his life, he went to that place where dreams are born".
  • After realising David is built only to love and nothing more, he commits suicide by jumping off a building and falls into the water. He doesn't die.
  • As David sees a statue of the Blue Fairy, a Ferris wheel collapses on them and can't escape David stares at the Blue Fairy repeating to become a real human. 2,000 years passed and the world is frozen. Super Mecha discover David frozen up.
  • David starts screaming "I'm David!" While bashing the head of another robot that says that he is David with a metal lamp.

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