Film Forum

U.S., 1986
Directed by John Badham
With Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton
Approx. 98 min. 35mm.

“Goofy Guttenberg plays a brilliant but totally reclusive inventor who has constructed robots with the power to nuke whole cities. At a military demonstration, the fifth of the series is struck by lightning, and receives the intelligence that it is alive. Eager to escape those who wish to terminate it, Number Five — a multi-purpose kitchen implement on wheels — takes refuge with fanatical animal lover Ally Sheedy, and the chase is on. Cuteness is never far off, though Badham has enough sense of pace, and the robotics are sufficiently inventive, to keep the laughs coming.” – Time Out

Reviews

“The movie, which has the clean, well-scrubbed look of an old Disney comedy, is nicely acted by Miss Sheedy, who demonstrates a light-comedy touch unlike Amy Irving’s.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times