History YMMV / AIArtificialIntelligence

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Creator/JudeLaw worked with a choreographer for months to nail down Gigolo Joe's dancing and general mannerisms.

** Gigolo Jane, played by Creator/AshleyScott, only appears for barely a minute, but was featured a lot on the film's promotional materials and ads, and then on the dvd/blu-ray packaging and menu images.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As expected from a Spielberg sci-fi movie. The home video packaging emphasizes three cases, the secretary's RobotReveal, [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/mediaviewer/rm384905216/ the FemMecha Nanny]], and the 'Vegas on steroids' that is Rouge City.

* UncannyValley:
** Turned on its head here, as most of the humanlike robots are played by live actors - but used to very good effect with CGI-enhanced, partially-broken androids, and many scenes where David just doesn't... seem... quite... human. Like the one where he "breaks" after eating human food.
** The main character's actions can be very unnerving sometimes, which gives a subtle indication that in spite of his emotions and fleshy exterior, he is still a machine. The thrown away, out-dated robots that are seen rummaging through a pile of leftover robotic parts in the forest also qualify, but most definitely the "nanny" robot, who happens to be missing 3/4s of her head.
** Creator/JudeLaw's face was sprayed with latex, and his hairline was painted to make it look like a seam, thus make him bizarrely too-perfect to look real.

** Likewise the crowd at the Flesh Fair revolt when Lord Johnson-Johnson wants to destroy David, a robot who looks like a realistic human boy, but they didn't once feel remorse for [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute the non-cute and far less human looking robots]]. Is Brendan Gleeson correct when he says that David is another Robot and fair game for the fair regardless of how human he looks? Are the crowds awakened to the monstrosity of their appetites when they revolt to save David?

** Martin as a JerkassWoobie. Think about it: the kid comes out of the cryogenic coma he was in, only to find out his parents have replaced him with a RobotKid. JerkAss tendencies may well be justified there.

** Is Martin a cruel, selfish child, or is his reaction to David - and the notion that his parents had "replaced" him with a robot when they thought he was dying - largely understandable and easy to sympathize with?

** Is Lord Johnson-Johnson just an impresario making a living by destroying advanced machinery (and preaching his [[{{Technophobe}} Luddite]] worldview), or is he a sadistic killer? It all depends on how "human", or at least how sentient, you think the mecha are.

** Is Lord Johnson-Johnson just an impresario making a living by destroying advanced machinery (and preaching his [[Technophobe Luddite]] worldview), or is he a sadistic killer? It all depends on how "human", or at least how sentient, you think the mecha are.

** Is Lord Johnson-Johnson just an impresario making a living by destroying advanced machinery (and preaching his [[Technophobe: Luddite]] worldview), or is he a sadistic killer? It all depends on how "human", or at least how sentient, you think the mecha are.
** Likewise the crowd at the Flesh Fair revolt when Lord Johnson-Johnson wants to destroy David, a robot who looks like a realistic human boy, but they didn't once feel remorse for [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute the non-cute and far less human looking robots]]. Is Brendan Gleeson correct when he says that David is another Robot and fair game for the fair regardless of how human he looks? Are the crowds awakened to the monstrosity of their appetites when they revolt to save David?

** Likewise the crowd at the Flesh Fair revolt when Brendan Gleeson's character wants to destroy David, a robot who looks like a realistic human boy, but they didn't once feel remorse for [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute the non-cute and far less human looking robots]]. Is Brendan Gleeson correct when he says that David is another Robot and fair game for the fair regardless of how human he looks? Are the crowds awakened to the monstrosity of their appetites when they revolt to save David?

** Notably, Creator/RogerEbert initially gave it a score of 3 stars out of 4, and criticized the ending, but since included it in his "Great Movies" list.

* SnicketWarningLabel: Stopping with either of the two scenes listed in EndingFatigue would give you an ending sad enough.

* OneSceneWonder: Gigolo Jane, played by Creator/AshleyScott, only appears for barely a minute, but was featured a lot on the film's promotional materials and ads, and then on the dvd/blu-ray packaging and menu images.
** Sheila, the mecha secretary who appears in the opening scene, played by Creator/SabrinaGrdevich, is remembered by many for having her face open up, [[RoboticReveal revealing that she's not actually human]], in a scene [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome that is completely impresive for a 2001 film and still holds up very well many years later]].

* TheWoobie: Oh, come on. Who didn't want to reach through the screen and give poor little David a hug?

** The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge Are not aliens.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.

** The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge ARE NOT FUCKING ALIENS, GODDAMNIT.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Scenes of frozen, distant-future New York City include the twin towers of the World Trade Center poking out of the ice. Spielberg made a conscious decision to leave them in, knowing he would take flak for it either way. Cinemas though (including outside America - the UK was affected) did have signs put up making them aware that footage of the towers featured in case of accidental offense.

* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Pinocchio'' with robots? The idea's been done as early as the 1950s, thanks to [[Creator/OsamuTezuka Osamu Tezuka's]] ''Manga/AstroBoy''.

** Notably, Creator/RogerEbert initially gave it a score of 3 stars out of 4, and criticized the ending, but since included it in his "[[RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies]]" list.

* OneSceneWonder: Gigolo Jane, played by Ashley Scott, only appears for barely a minute, but was featured a lot on the film's promotional materials and ads, and then on the dvd/blu-ray packaging and menu images.

** [[Creator/ClarkGregg Agent Coulson]] working for [[Creator/WilliamHurt Thaddeus "Thunder" Ross]].

* FandomEnragingMisconception: The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge ARE NOT FUCKING ALIENS, GODDAMNIT.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.

* MisBlamed:
** Surprisingly, Kubrick was the mastermind behind the fuzzy Pinocchio subplot, while Spielberg introduced the dark grittiness of stuff like the Flesh Fair.
** Oh, and that sappy ending? Yeah, all Kubrick. Spielberg went through with it because Kubrick was his friend and he wanted to keep his vision alive, even if it meant he'd be given all the blame for it.

*** An ''intentional'' example for David: is his childlish innocence a genuine act of free will or is he innocent simply because he is programmed to be that way?

* FandomEnragingMisconception: The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge ARE NOT FUCKING ALIENS GODDAMNIT.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.
** Another is that for the last time '''Spielberg DID NOT add that infamous final part!''' As later on revealed, ''Kubrick'' was the one who wanted the film to have that particular ending and Spielberg keeping it the way it was to honor his deceased friend.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Scenes of frozen, distant-future New York City include the twin towers of the World Trade Center poking out of the ice. Spielberg made a conscious decision to leave them in, knowing he would take flak for it either way. Cinemas though (including outside America - the UK was affected) did have signs put up making them aware that footage of the towers featured in case of accidental offence.

* FandomBerserkButton: The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge ARE NOT FUCKING ALIENS GODDAMNIT.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.

** FandomBerserkButton: The machine entities at the end [[CommonKnowledge ARE NOT FUCKING ALIENS GODDAMNIT.]] They're robots who have evolved through upgrading themselves continuously over the course of 2000 years until they're so advanced that they're practically living beings.