Short Circuit 2 (1988) -🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review
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People talk about Neverending Story giving them trauma, but watching Johnny 5 get beaten half to death messed me up as a kid. I still have a lot of empathy for machines because of J5 😅
Yep. Also led to my love of Holding out for a hero and my lifelong motto of: Derf, a lifeform’s gotta do what a lifeform’s gotta do.
The begging. It was the begging that destroyed me.
Screw that! I know Johnny 5 is going to be a hero at the end, and that is my absolute favorite part of the movie! That's all I need to know.
Ditto Batteries Not Included, and Flight Of The Navigator.
Don't forget about Littlefoot's mom in The Land Before Time
When I watched this the first time, the Oscar twist messed me up. One of my first lessons in how people can be two-faced. A great lesson for a 4-5 year old (born in '84).
The cab driver is the best secondary character in the whole movie 😂😂 .. everything from ABBA to ZZTop 😂😂😂
Saw this as a kid, and the part I remembered was where he was carefully reading Frankenstein and Pinocchio. A story about a creature that was seen as an abomination and not accepted by society, and a story about a wooden puppet who seemed alive but still wasn’t quite real. Poor Johnny 5, identifying with other misfits! I cried, even though I didn’t see the deeper meaning as a child. I just knew he was in chains, treating a couple of classic stories with reverence, and I found it so sad. Funny that it was that scene that stuck with me all these years, and not his near death scene.
I was expecting ugly duckling in those. Like Lilo and Stitch.
As a kid I found the scene where they smash up Johnny Five traumatic, and I remember distinctly thinking how they could switch to triumphant music for the model airplanes attack while Johnny was being mutilated. From that moment on I spent the rest of the film knotted with anxiety because I thought Johnny Five was going to die - 'Holding Out for a Hero' had no effect on me whatsoever when I was filled with so much dread. That's how well Tim Blaney and a puppeteers did.
Looking back as an adult, while I have great admiration for John Badham's directing of Short Circuit and love how they slowly grew this machine into a relatable character, this film is the most fun because Johnny Five is a complete character from start to finish. Incidentally, this was directed by Kenneth Johnson, best known for his TV work including The Bionic Woman, the pilot episodes (originally intended as a 2 hour TV movie) of The Incredible Hulk, and for writing and directing the original mini-series 'V'.
The same for me except worse. To me as a child, Holding Out for a Hero felt like J5's swan song. Some heroes die and that fatal countdown cut with this music... the kid I was assumed the worst. Despite all it's oddities, I prefer SC2 over the original.
"Megabytes of input" is getting more funny with each year.
Also, 'I need a Hero' will always be a Johnny #5 song. I will always associate it with bad ass J5.
This might’ve been first, but I always associate the song with whose hair crumb
Seriously almost cried when I saw this was up. These types of films sometimes honestly make you feel too silly to watch as an adult, you really give us the opptuntiat to see it again without claiming that we watched them as adults in 2024. lol Thanks!!
Short Circuit 1/2 and *batteries not included, cemented my love of robots in film; they're always such helpful little guys. The idea of the killer robot didn't enter my space until WAY later.
I grew up on those, and Terminators 1&2 so I have a mix of joy, sorrow, and fearful respect associated with robots... Let me tell you what, when the robots take over, I'm working for them because I see how people treat their machines
@@LordVolkov well i for one welcome our robot overlords! lol
@@joshfacio9379 Appearing soon at every fast food restaurant in the country!!
I still cry at the attack scene, and the end chase was so epic and had me on the edge if my seat everytime.
I remember being 20 something seeing Fisher Stevens in another movie and thinking, "Huh...he looks familiar." Flash forward a few days, and I'm driving, and the tumblers click, "Ohhhhh, noooo."
For me it was the movie Hackers which starred Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee miller, in it Fisher plays the antagonist but he has the exact same hair and beard as he does in Short Circuit, he just looks like a white Beni.
The Short Circuit films were so much a part of my childhood, I got a 2 sided DVD of both films off eBay last month. My favorite scene of this one was the Los Lobos one, especially the temporary makeover. My favourite line was "K.O. Derf." I miss Radio Shack.
Can of cake! Piece of corn!
Watching this as a child in the theatre was really rough. Seeing Johnny 5 get smashed and then what follows as he's writing on the wall that he's dying.
Us 80s kids were a lot tougher, that was heart wrenching.
I bet you never thought you'd get tears in your eyes for a robot...
Seeing Pippin at the end all "...when you gonna touch my paw?" was so sweet and also hilarious, he's so used to that part of the watch-alongs now that he actually expects it. 🤣
One of my favorite childhood movies. Also one of those childhood films that hits you in the feelz with some scenes.
I saw that look you gave us Matthew when the bad guys broke the toy Johnny 5. To his day it still hits me in the feels in thet scene where hes getting beat up and he's struggling to get up.
That scene where Johnny 5 gets beaten up by Oscar's goons made me cry as a kid. Hearing him yell "but I'm alive!" as he was pleading them to stop made me bawl buckets. THIS IS THE MOVIE is where that song "I Need a Hero" just fits right, not the Shrek version. Seeing J5 bleeding to death chasing Oscar in the end was always epic, I was totally invested on that scene hehe. I saw this on Laserdisc in the 90s. But till this day, it's still pisses me off whenever I see that J5 beating scene again in reruns.
“I need a hero” resonates in my childhood both from this film…AND…
The movie length pilot of the 90s “Lois and Clark- the new adventures of superman”, there’s a costume making montage with Clark and Martha Kent where she’s making a bunch of different outfits for him to try :)
Even that movie length pilot alone makes a half decent “tv movie”
Childhood. You picked a BIG piece of it.
10:59 That ominous look into the camera made me laugh so hard
Technically, there is a third Short Circuit film, but it's a PSA on car theft. It's called "Hot Cars, Cold Facts - A Short Circuit Short", which you can find on RUclips.
And now Emily knows why Johnny 5 feels alive in the American Dad episode My Morning Straight Jacket.
24:40
To be fair that wasn't just a punch to the stomach, that would be known as "a hit right in the breadbasket" or "having the wind knocked out of you", basically he was hit at the same time as he was taking a breath which resulted in him having trouble speaking and breathing, i actually did this to my brother once when we were fighting as kids and it freaked me out.
I loved this film as a kid and even now it made me tear up. regarding the whole brown face thing, I had no idea until somebody told me in my late 20s. I had no idea, which shows that they did a good job and it wasn't totally outrageous
Took robin Williams 200 years to get citizenship
And did and he turned human literally 😢 I love that movie 🍿
Lol
Bicentennial Man right?
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 Oddly enough no: Dead Poets Society.
Alternate reality where Chuck McGill went down same path as Slippin’ Jimmy
Ha! You win the comment section for today. 🤣
Its funny that all the while watching Better Call Saul, I can only think about Chuck as the weasel sales guy from this movie!
Amazing how affecting the robot chalking "Dying" on the wall is!
Watch out for Los Locos.
They'll kick your balls in to outer space.
I'm SO glad you guys are doing this! This was one of my favs as a child, and almost nobody ever reacts to this movie! In fact I think you're the first of the channels that I follow!
7:50 till this day I still say "Isn't that special?" just like Johnny 5! haha
I will admit though, in my childhood I never realized that Benjamin's character wasn't played by a real Indian man. I never thought about it, nor ever really looked to see who played him. Granted it has been like over 20 years since I seen this movie, and so like even that long ago, who ever thought how egregious brown-facing would be? In my defense, as a kid he pulled off an Indian man very well.
Everybody credits Shrek 2 for bringing "I need a hero" to new ears? It was THIS movie for me that made me love that song!!
There is a company that sells a "lego" kit of Johnny 5. Its not actual Lego but it looks pretty good for a kit! And just a few years ago there was this youtube channel that was based out of a CNC metal shop that had a series of them trying to build a life-size Johnny 5, they had blueprints and everything on how best to build him. Not sure if they ever finished. There's also someone on Instagram, @Johnny5Replica that has a screen-accurate full size Johnny 5 and he takes him to comic conventions and such.
The scene where they are trashing J5 was much more traumatic for me than Neverending Story. I loved that robot so much I wanted a little toy of him like from this movie, but I don’t think they made any (talk about a missed marketing opportunity), so I built one out of Lego (toy size, of course). Had all the moving parts and everything, including the treads; I was really proud of it.
My name is B.E.N, I spell it Ben. Never fails to make me chuckle
OMG I've loved this movie my whole life!!
Los Locos kick your ass!
Los Locos kick your face!
Loc Locos kick your balls into outer space!
You know how to make a bass player leave? Make him pay for the pizza lol.
Michael McKean is a national treasure
I love him in Coneheads. We could use someone like that at the border about now.
Michael McKean was also Mr. Green in Clue, which I think you've watched. That's the first movie I ever saw him in.
Danny Trejo as Johnny 23 really took the 'Short Circuit' series in a dark direction IMO (one for the 'Con Air' fans there).
Los Locos took a dark turn in the 90s...
To see more of Tim Blaney's expert robot puppetry, check out 1986's "Flight of the Navigator."
For oldsters like me Micheal McKean is best known as Lenny of Lenny & Squiggy fame on the old Laverne & Shirley sitcom.
My brother and me watched this movie SOOOO much when we were kids. I still get hyped at the "We Need a Hero" part.
I forgot to comment last night that back in my first playthrough of Fallout 4 I actually made a robot with the Automation DLC to look "roughly" like Johnny 5 and I named it Johnny 5 too.
Watched this so many times on VHS as a kid!
Thank you so much for reacting to this sequel!
Yes, Matthew...Geddy Lee is looking at you in annoyance. LOL
Oh...and now you must show Em Joel Grey in Remo Williams. 😍
Oh god, I used to love Johnny 5 and even saw him in the original Disney MGM studios. But watching him getting beat up and begging for his life was the hardest thing I had to watch growing up 😢.
For me I saw this before the first movie, when I was in hospital as a kid.
I only heard about the fisher Stevens thing a few years ago actually.
Unfortunate but still a good movie.
You should check out "Chappie", for what is basically a modern day remake of Short Circuit. It's by Neill Blomkamp who did District 9. Excellent film. (much more serious tone)
We both loved Chappie!
Loved both movies growing up and I still do. First 1 is better, but not by much , at least for me. There is a company that makes a lego version of Johnny 5. I picked it up on Amazon for 14 bucks.
The thing everyone forgets when Johnny 5 goes hard at the end is Johnny is Los Locos!
I remember crying as a small child to Johnny 5's beating. Good reaction. Also, I noticed Emily's UHF Spatula City shirt. You guys should react to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. It was wonderful.
This movie was pretty good but I thought the first one was way better. By the way I mentioned this channel in my video I made today to my subscribers. Granted I don't have a large fan base but I wanted to share your channel with my viewers. Keep up the great reactions and keep them videos coming thanks guys
Wow, you have Show Your Moves as your intro theme. Good choice
Pippen's like, mommy can't we watch some Fellini?
There’s a guy from the UK (I think) Who built his own Johnny 5 replica .. complete with voice capabilities
Saw him on IG
I actually made a Johnny 5 robot in my first playthrough of Fallout 4 with the Automatron DLC.
@@totallybored5526 I know that bit still found it cool with the parts you get in the DLC that I was able to make a convincing looking Johnny 5.
The TV electronics store commercial was in reference to "Crazy Eddies" that sold a LOT of merchandise UNDER COST, inflating sales, in order to spoof investors into buying BIG into the company. He claimed to have TONS of merchandise to sell and convinced investors to get on board quick. The only problem was the only "merchandise" he had a lot of was EMPTY BOXES, costing investors MILLIONS as Eddie sold them his stock and RAN.
Amazon has Johnny 5 build kits
Dude!!!! I clicked on this SOOOO fast! I've been waiting so long for someone to do this movie!!!
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 8 years old and I am now 43 and still cry whenever they nearly kill Johnny 5.
I am sure when you did the that's how Houdini died Michael McKean was the police officer in planes trains and automobiles. So a few things, Steve Guttenberg who was off filming Police Academy 2 and 3 at the time has huge regrets for not coming back for Short Circuit 2. He says when the script was written there wasn't a part written for him. Ally Sheedy was not credited for her 10 second voice over. She demanded to much money. This was filmed in Toronto but had a New York feel. Jack Weston AKA Oscar this was his last appearance on the screen as he died not long after this movie. There is a blooper reel on RUclips about 20 minutes long. Definitely check it out. Tim Blaney Johnny 5's voice actor has said it was difficult to film when he is beaten up because he just knew it would break kids hearts to see this mine included when he says no do not kill me. There has been talks of a short circuit 3 but nothing official. Now you need to check out the other police academy movies
Michael McKean was Lenny in "Laverne and Shirly" his first credited role. He's been in so many different shows and movies. I just see him as Chuck in "Better Call Saul" these days. It is so hard to imagine the Lenny actor becoming the chuck actor today.
McKean is one of those actors who seems to pop up in so many different things over the years. I mostly know him from this movie and Clue because I saw them 100 times, but then he shows up in that one episode of Star Trek Voyager, The Good Place, and much more.
@@user-uo6cq1cp3u yeah he has a ton of guest roles. His career evolution is really interesting imo.
I saw this one almost a decade before I saw the first, and I always kind if preferred this one.
Also this, not Shrek, is what comes first to mind when I hear "I Need A Hero"
Gonna show my age, but Footloose is my "Need a Hero" movie first then this one.
@@johnjr757 You know, for all the references I've been exposed to all my life, I've still never actually seen Footloose.
@@HobGungan You aren't really missing much. It's more of a soundtrack movie.
This movie and Who’s Harry Crumb? come to mind for me when I hear that song.
@@SFOlson I totally forgot this song was in Who's Harry Crumb?! It was the plane chase scene, wasn't it?
I remember watching both this and the previous film repeatedly as a kid, too young to understand much of the subtext and depth, but finding it enjoyable - “cool robot that’s funny” -
But I must have blocked out the part of the smashing up and his plaintive cries for mercy…I mean I recall he got damaged, but his cries of “please do not kill me!” I had ZERO memory of
I forgot how much I liked this movie. Steve Gutenberg was was all about the police academy movies at the time.
7:03 7:07 11:00 Eyebrows, eyebrows. There were a few more...felt like a counter was needed.
Holding out for a Hero was written for Footloose but its use here is what cemented its use as a dramatic 3rd Act song for me.
as a kid I watched this one more than the first one. The attack scene was heavy but his charge to get Oscar against I need a hero was a righteous comeback that I loved.
It was a lightning bolt from the heavens that gave J5 life and it was a plea to the heavens that brought him back.
There are several etsy accounts where you can find several different sized miniature models of Johnny Five, but some of them are....expensive. But there are also two LEGO MOC (My Own Creation) models that can be bought online. I hope to buy one of those models in the next to near future, and maybe use it to create my own little Johnny Five diorama. YO LAZERLIPS, YOUR MOMMA WAS A SNOWBLOWER ! still gets me every time.
Johnny Five's character in this, and his relationships with Ben/Fred/Oscar/Los Locos, are one of the constellations in my personal heavenly sphere, in that I navigate the seas of social interaction by way of asking "What Would Johnny Five Do?"
Back to the Future, Little Shop of Horrors, and Teen Wolf are some of this film's company in the sky. Steve Martin as Dr Orin Scrivello DDS is my north star.
The ‘Footloose’ soundtrack remains the best house cleaning/chore music ever put to wax..
Try it! Your kitchen will be sparkling :)
both then, and now, I love this film, and much more so then the first. I like the first, but LOVE this one. the cast's chemistry was great, the humor is on point, the climax is amazing (I can't hear that song without thinking of this). I even loved the darker scenes despite how heartbreaking then can be, just because of how well they were done. as a shy, awkward kid i had related to ben far more then guttenberg's more charismatic character in the first. and felt the romance subplot was more believable and genuine. and I also loved the scene using songs to find them. just overall a wonderful film.
Batteries not included and My Science Project would both be good follow ups to this i feel. for different reasons.
Thank you. Great reaction video. Really brings back childhood memories.
Adam Savage went to a movie prop place and saw the original Johnny 5 robot
after hitting my head years ago everynow and then ill switch words around in a sentence when talking, and tho it sucks it makes me smile that it reminds me of j5 lol.
I’m watching this full well knowing it’s going to make me cry.
I remember seeing this sequel on tape when I was young and it was aight but I didn't know much about the original and have to say the original was better than this sequel, cool reaction as always Emily & Matthew, you both take and have a nice day
Love Both these movies and I'm VERY happy you checked both of them out
Emily WOW the 2nd time you mentioned that sma;ll Johnny 5 Pippen had had it huh 😂
Great reaction guys 🙂
after all these years i STILL want the toy johnny 5!
its so weird that in the 80's the time of consumerism that there were never any johnny 5 robots. i remember there being some knockoffs that had the head shape but thats it. maybe a radio shack robot had the look (omnibot 2000) but no real short circuit toy.
if you do find something please let us all know. i kno theres some versions on etsy and theres a lego type on aliexpress and amazon etc, couple versions actually but theres always something off...
and if you find any batteries not included robots thatd be nifty too!
For another movie with I Need a Hero, you should see Who is Harry Crumb?. I won't spoil what the movie is about though, or who is in it
“We’re going to be cruising at 32,000…feet. What. The. Fuck. Is. That??”
Benjamin was such a case of Fair For It's Day that it's crazy. Extremely likable character, Fisher Stevens did his homework and his best to be respectful, yet today... Sheesh.
No, his parody of an indian-american was dog shit in 1988.
Spot on one of my favourite movie characters.
Even after Hackers, I still thought he was Indian!
Fisher Stevens made a career out of doing Brownface in the '80s. He also played a Latin guy named Carlos in the movie the boss's wife, with a big mustache and slicked back hair.
This was a childhood favorite! We had this on VHS (One of many movie sequels my stepdad got for sale cheap at truck stops, never the originals. Ghostbusters 2, Robocop 2, Back to the future 3, Die hard 2 Etc) but one thing always bothered me. How come Johnny 5 had to earn his citizenship wasn't he made in America?!
Newcomers, Pip is the star of the show, don't let the hoomans fool you...
Insulting da bassists?!? Hmmm?!? You might get your sherpa title removed for that insult! LOL
I was 11 when this came oh. I remember my older sister being mad that I got to see this and Big Top Pee-Wee in the same day in the theater.
@@3DJapan I was 11 as well.
This reaction gave me all kinds of smiles. I absolutely love this movie, after he gets smashed up and gets words all mixed up, just makes me laugh.
Underrated, fun and worthy sequel
Can I just say: Cynthia Gibb 😍
This was filmed in my hometown. World's Biggest Bookstore was torn down and replaced with another condo :(
I watched this so many times! .. but I haven't seen it in a long time. Really looking forward to watching this reaction!
Whenever I need a feel-good nostalgia flick, I watch this.
There are a bunch of Johnny 5's on Etsy. Standard, gold, punk, whatever you prefer.
Yaaaaaaay finally! I forgot this was even on the list
Im not sure about the mini Johnny 5s, but there are several groups that make FULL SIZED Johnny 5 replicas that do function.
Los Locos with their Theme Song. Ahh the nostalgia.
Is that a SPATULA CITY SHIRT!? Amazing.
I love seeing J5 with his red eyes... You know you messed up when you see that.
Still to this date, one of my favorite robots in media history!
PIPPEN DESERVES MEOW MIX
That scene stays with me always
This is that RARE sequel that is BETTER than the original. Yes, I said it. And I stand by it.
A movie without Ally Sheedy is better than a movie with Ally Sheedy? Heresy I say!
@@krashd 😁
There’s a bootleg Lego store front, Mocpixel and they have two sizes of buildable Johnny 5s.
I live in Toronto, Canada. 12:00 The World's Biggest Bookstore was a bookstore in Toronto at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre. It closed down in March 2014.
the talking cars i remember that in the days
As funny, silly, and surprisingly traumatic as this movie can be at times, I always think has one of the most subtle but interesting ideas in science fiction of the 80s: the USA's first robotic citizen. Seriously, even today that's an idea that films and TV tends to shy away from. How often in science fiction do you see the artificial intelligences deliberately acknowledged and treated as equals? It's a pretty rare occurance, even in series where the AI's are calmly accepted because they've been around for centuries.