Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
Sexylocher
Masterful Movie
Mojochi
I'm not sure what I just saw here, & how I've never even heard of this before. It is easily the most unintentionally bizarre thing ever conceived on film, & though it's a genuine failure on multiple levels (So much so that Kaufman apologized & offered people their money back on a Letterman appearance) it's not without its charms.It's got some interesting cinematography, makeup effects by the acclaimed master of 80's FX Stan Winston & a wonderfully unprecedented synthesizer & orchestral fused score, composed by none other than the great John Williams, which lends the film some heart...beeps.Though I'm really surprised that Carol Kane didn't end up as the female lead, Peters & Kaufman bring to the film exactly what you'd expect, as well as they likely could, & there is a root of a story in there with some actual heart. I streamed it on Amazon. Don't watch it to see a good movie, as it may be 1 of the movie industry's biggest train wrecks. Watch it like a time capsule revealing something historical about a people who lived nearly half a century years ago & their vision of a future. 1981 was a strange time.I swear, Andy Kaufman had the absolute strangest career in entertainment of anyone who ever breathed. It's like he lived in the cracks between where the entertainment industry reality stopped & fantasy began. If anyone else had made this movie, I'd think they had gone mental, but if you said to me Andy Kaufman made it, I'd be like "Oh... That makes sense".
Stephanie Donald
First of all, consider that this was the only motion picture Andy Kaufman made before he died. He was quite sick when he made it and he never defined himself as a comedian; he always defined himself as a "song and dance man." It was the rest of the world who kept trying to shove him into the comedy can. Andy was perhaps the most misunderstood performer of all time and undoubtedly a genius. At the time this movie was made, Kaufman's break-out TV series, Taxi, had just been cancelled and he had just been diagnosed with a rare large cell carcinoma in his lungs. He wanted to get away from the disastrous "Inter-Gender Wrestling" gig he started that caused his popularity to fall flat and got him banned from Saturday Night Live. Bernadette Peters had just come off playing a cupie-doll airhead against Steve Martin's moron in "The Jerk" and Heartbeeps seemed like a good follow-up role. It's nuances you need to watch for in this film. The unlikely allies of the robots, Val, Aqua and the Catskill Performer, while being pursued by a crazed police robot, makes for a simplistic, yet classic tale of good vs. evil and good wins (spoiler alert!). Much of Kaufman's performance reminds me of the innocent, yet poignant Latka from Taxi. Thank you very much!
johnstonjames
if your first reaction upon seeing 'Heartbeeps' is HUH? you're probably more than justified. even if you don't find this movie appealing in a cutesy-poo, charm sort of way, you'll probably still find it a little off the wall and more than a bit absurd.besides the usual babyish, sentimental group that always gets hooked into popular schmaltz, and i've met many of those, some of us get hooked into this for the pure peculiarity of the story. as any fan of this cult comedy knows, it's about a couple of silly little robots who decide to run away and start a family together. i can't really tell you exactly what the appeal is to this, but for me, it kind of reads like some kind of live action Filmation cartoon from the seventies. it's pretty innocuous and silly stuff. but for some of us the appeal is strong and obviously with most, on a intuitive feeling level.Andy Kaufman's style of comedy was fairly idiosyncratic, personalized and individual to a point of egomaniacal. he was a young man suddenly thrown into the spotlight, like so many young performers, and either he had too many ideas, or knew too little what to do with all the attention, because all fame seemed to do was make Kaufman retreat more inwardly and become, at times, almost incomprehensible. i enjoy Kaufman but i can't always say i get him half the time. he was a very hard celebrity to make a actor out of because his performance skills were so different and hard to place in just anything.i can't imagine a better film for Kaufman than 'Heartbeeps'. the role seems tailored for his eccentricity. not to mention he seems eerily robotic and unreal in his role as Val the house Bot. i also can't imagine a better leading lady for him than the incredible Bernadette Peters. Peters is aways pure gem and she herself is a very individualized talent. without her and Kaufman this film would have been impossible.there's also a couple of funny cameos by 'Rock'n Roll' high school stars Woronov and Bartell. they don't have much to do, but they are hilarious as spoiled rich, yuppie-types who are perplexed by the robots who crash their party.this quaint movie memorabilia reads a little like 'Wizard of Oz', meets artificial intelligence meets Woody Allen's 'Sleeper' or something like that. whatever, it's amusing sci-fi comedy stuff. the only real cliché here though, is to call this little movie a enigma. no kidding. you think. a lot of people will probably find this movie hard to get used to because of it's kookiness. for other's, like myself, the real enigma is why this film is so appealing i just can't resist it. that's the part that kind of perplexes me.
Pooua
Before "Bicentenial Man"... there was a group of robots... I watched this movie one time, 20 years ago, but I still remember it fondly. I have always thought of it as an allegory, centered around two robots who "grow up" through their wild, teenage years, have a child and face crises together. They finally discover the meaning of love, in a way that is deeper than just being fond of each other, as they sacrifice for each other. I was so impressed with this movie that I can still recall much of the dialog. I remember the jokes and plot twists. The movie is light-hearted, funny and insightful and is even poignant at times.
