The Bicentennial Man

(Buena Vista)

Where have you gone, Robin Williams? In this Chris Columbus adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 1976 short story, Williams plays a robot, Martin, who has a heart, one that is nurtured and then rejected by the family he lives with. And so it goes and goes for some 200 years, Martin spending the first 180 behaving, if you can believe it, like a naive Forrest Gump. Finally, he wises up, some trite lessons are learned, and Martin turns into the lifeform known as Robin Williams, well-meaning, no longer very funny, and definitely, even for children, a bore.