For instance, a wedding scene puts all the principals together, and begs for comic collisions. She can’t quite resolve the split: Her attitude is Andy Warhol, but her story is Frank Capra. But Seidelman’s heart doesn’t quite seem in the machinations of the screwball plot. All the performances are good, notably Ann Magnuson, who has just the right combination of smarts and adorability. He isn’t a conventional leading man, but he is inventive in the early scenes of Ulysses’ education, he uncannily recreates the look and movements of an infant. John Malkovich, who plays both Ulysses and the android’s egghead inventor, is a gifted actor. His rovings through a modern mall provide the most amusing adventures. Except that sex becomes complicated for Ulysses, because it makes his systems overload and his head rotate.Īnd of course there’s a lot of fish-out-of water stuff with Ulysses’ discovery of the outside world (he’s been cooped up in a research lab). There are a bunch of nutty sidebars to this, including the woman’s erstwhile boyfriend, a politician (Ben Masters), and her oversexed girlfriend (Glenn Headley, in a very funny performance) who introduces Ulysses to the joys of uncomplicated sex. This leads to the predictable conclusion that Ulysses begins to develop feelings for this human woman, thus short-circuiting his supposed heartlessness.
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So his creators hire a public-relations expert (Ann Magnuson) to make the android cuddly. The only thing Ulysses needs is public relations the flimsy plot excuse is that this will make him attractive to members of Congress who can fund the project. He performs human functions, and (this is a plus) he lacks the feelings that would create loneliness on a long voyage. It’s all about the perfect man: Ulysses, an android created for long-term space flight. Right is like a classical old structure jammed to the rafters with rubber chickens and X-Ray specs. But for all her ’80s credentials, Seidelman has now filmed a pair of stories that recall nothing so much as the screwball comedies of the 1930s.
Just what you would expect, in fact, from the director of Desperately Seeking Susan, Susan Seidelman.
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Right carries all the funky earmarks of a New Wave comedy it’s full of bright Miami colors, hip turns of phrase, and wacky fashion.
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