I'm Here

This one also may not "count", but...

An internet short for around 45 minutes that was directed by Spike Jonze. It's a story about a world where robots live and work among us as virtual slaves to humans. Yet somehow a romance blooms between an uptight male robot and a quirky female who is determined to let the world know she's "here." It's visually interesting because the robots have a funky, found-art feeling to them. The voice performances are casual and engaging. The meeting and intitial flirtation is a lot of fun and although the "message" about minorities, etc. is heavy-handed, it was still an interesting exercise in perspective shifting. The second half of the movie devolves into a demented version of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." That got a little repetitive and the ending left me unmoved. Still, it's an interesting exercise and I thought it was inventive in the way Jonze literally brings the robots to "life."