Johnny 5 IS alive!!! Your mommas a snow blower! Woop woop woop
I really did not expect this movie to be that great. The storyline completely took me by surprise and the CG effects (for the robots) were amazing. I love how real the interaction between humans and Chappie look. The storyline with Hugh Jackman was kind of boring and predictable but the rest was really great.
Our rap-stars were definitely not the best actors but it was a nice touch to have some real-world characters in there – especially someone as quirky as Yolandi.
Very sentimental movie, chappie was so adorable
An enjoyable, if somewhat flawed, sci-fi film with plenty of intriguing ideas. Blomkamp's take on artificial intelligence avoids the immediate vilification of technology and instead brings into question the damaging and sometimes savage nature of humanity, which makes Chappie more philosophically interesting.
RoboCop + Mad Max + Short Circuit = Chappie
Neil blomkamp is a underrated director, i love his ideas and everything.....this movie was good i liked it
I really enjoyed this film, from start to end.
Very deep storyline, with some action and humour now and then to add color to the plot.
Sharito Copley's interpretation of Chappie was very well made.
The ending was not foregone.
I loved this as it reminded me of a movie called Johnny 5. I hope there is a squeal to this movie.
Actually and weirdly, I thought this would be some kind of cute animated pixar family movie. Heh, it was not.
I think the movie is actually pretty hard to swallow at times.
Some hefty abuse Chappie goes through, and we are also confronted with about three different villain groups, so it was kinda hard to expect and anticipate the concrete outcome and story plot in advance (plus point). It could have easily went into many different directions.
The cruel world and environment aside, I felt it also pretty interesting in terms of social interactions and role models.
There was also quite some character development in the movie, and by this I don't mean just Chappie (you often just feel sorry what he must endure!), but rather especially Ninja, who goes from badass super jerk to....actually caring about people, and even willing to give his own life for them. That was...pretty touching.
Also, poor America! - What was up with all these weird names anyway!?
Rating: An emotional 9/10
Really awesome movie, I absolutely recommend it
an emotionally thrilling action film, my major gripe with this movie was the focus of die antwoord. Chappie was an amazing character
Move is great its interesting,funny and emotional loved it just ignore bad reviews and watch move you will not regret it
Enjoyable movie. If anyone remembers "Short Circuit 2", it's nearly the same movie but adjusted to the current trends.
I just finished watching it, and while I do understand the "silly" comment, I didn't mind it. I dont want to leave spoilers... Its definitely worth the watch, I rate it a 7-8... Very enjoyable experience.
I think this is a gem. A good story, good action and it even moved me from time to time. Of course this movie will not recieve oscars. This movie will become a cult item and will have a few remakes, directors cuts and so on. The African language is a small bonus. A must see
Too bad Die Antwoord cant act for crap, other than that its a awesome story.
I enjoyed the hell out of Chappie, I highly recommend it! =D
Enjoyed the movie, though some of the acting wasn't the very best.
There are some quite funny moments as well as sweet moments between CHAPPiE and the main characters.
The trailer succeeded in not showing all the great moments from the movie, as some trailers do.
I would recommend watching it, if you need a good laugh, but aren't expecting Oscar performances
As a South African myself even I struggled to understand some of the dialogue Die Antwoord were trying to say While forcing their music down our throaghts.
It isnt bad, but it isnt District 9 quality when it comes to story telling
okay, i have read some reviews and i can just not believe that you can 'like' this movie.
I make it short: This movie is really, really bad in terms of acting and story, but especially in acting.
I don't know, how you can not see this. The 'actors' just overact like hell. The story structure and the main characters are so weird and mixed up like a bad child-story.
Are the CGI and special effects good? Yeah, they are, but this does not help with the big cheesiness you get.
And the last 20 minutes are really cool. No really, they really are. But that's it.
I really like Short Circuit with Johnny Five. But this movie is just the dumped version of that. No charme, no structure, no sense.
District 9 was a milestone, Elysium a little disappointment, but this movie shows: Neil Blomkamp can not write good scripts with drama structure anymore.
2/10
A disappointing and goofy film. We're supposed to root for Chappie but I just found him annoying.
This movie is a Hugh waste of time, money, premise.
The idea of a robot getting consciousness isn't new at all but they all are able to pull it off when done right. This one isn't. The cast itself is awful, lacking any kind of acting ability (not surprising, though). The dialogue is mostly overly cringeworthy.
The movie loses itself in different ideas and at the end doesn't know what it wants to be anymore. But to let the people get out of the cinema in a good mood and with the thought of having seen something worth their money it is thrown in some good amount of action, a very sterile, boring moral as well as a happy ending. Oh, and guess what, the evil persons here aren't actually that evil after all. yawwn
Of course humans are always these greedy, selfish species and the poor, poor little Chappie is on the higher moral ground and would sacrifice himself to save someone else as if it would be totally normal.
For everything shown in this movie there's just not enough time to establish every concept. And I strongly question why this superior noose is on the loose. I mean, it's made such a big deal of its use or authorization that I wonder why only one single person is going to control or observe its use. But without it, the incredibly uninspired climax of the movie wouldn't be possible. So, plot reasons. Always a guarantor for good things.
Nothing surprising happens in this movie ever but somehow the last 10 minutes seem to impress the people good enough when I look at the generally positive feedback this movie gets. The time before that can't be it.
Future police robot is being altered. Amazing movie with amazing ending. 10 stars!
i got bored watching it. wouldn't recommend it.
This movie is boring and predictable with a story seen thousands of times in other older movies. The acting of the main characters are not making that better, they are making it worse. The storyline was so boring, without my popcorn I would have stoped the movie in its starting phase. Viewer gets forced to have feelings for a little machine, machine gets treated bad, machine saves the world and shows that only machines, which are like humans, are worth developing... Sorry for my spelling, I felt asleep couple of times, just remembering that.
Yes, it is illogical in many moments, but it is a great scifi movie. I loved it!
awful just plain awful. Blomkamp films have just got worse. District 9 great..first half of Elysium great second half of Elysium rubbish and Chappie well it just gets so bad...its such a mess. This film just irritated me but hey each to there own :)
Action comedy social commentary to just a little to much for my liking then maybe die any wood is not really my cup of tea
I remember loving this movie when I first saw it way back when, but this watch was a much more average viewing. Falling somewhere between Alita, Elysium, and Mad Max, I like all the counterparts more. This one scratches an it, but doesn’t do much to stand on its own.
Rating: 3/5 - 75% - Worth Watching
it's a cool concept. but they missed for the best ending. Chappie could programmed the factory to create 3 custom robot for each other instead of just 1, having detachable and rechargeable battery feature, make some spare battery for them, then transfer their own consciousness to that new body.
One of my favorite movie of all time! It's sad that the Hollywood doesn't make these kinds of movie anymore...
"I've got blings?... I've got blings!". That's the kind of dialogue you get from this movie and I was actually looking forward to this movie until I sawed.
I remembered watching the first trailer for Chappie and being so moved and interested in the idea of a Short Circuit mash with a little violent future with the street gangs. I got pumped for the movie and Neill Blomkamp hasn't disappointed me yet, and some people may dislike 'Elysium', but to me I enjoyed that film and I really enjoyed 'District 9'. I mean it was such a original and new. After seeing the movie, you what to know what hurts more than pain? Disappointment.
Let's first start of with the positives: Sharlto Copley did a fantastic job playing Chappie and he also did great doing the motion capture work. Copley really brought this character to life and it was a good choice to do. Dev Patel was also good as well and his character was the only likable human being in the whole movie. Chappie was likable at first before he turns into an A-hole later on.
The visual effect's was pretty good as well. What Neill Blomkamp dose well in his movies is blend in effect's and story together so smoothly. The action scenes were shot very well and the sound mixing & editing were really good.
Now for the bad: The two band members in this movie 'Ninja' and 'Yo-Landi Visser' (known as Die Antwoord). Well the acting from those two was not very good...it was god awful. These two really can't act and I heard that they never had acting lesson's before and this is they first time in a movie acting, and it shows. They character's have to be the most annoying, unlikable, and scum of the earth that I wanted to die.
Later on in the movie, Chappie himself turns into a big dick to everyone. He throws grenades at people and steals people cars. Our main hero everyone, when his not treating or hurting people, he goes around talking gangster in that annoying voice. Chappie the ass-hole robot.
Hugh Jackman as the villain was so bland that his plans neither don't work or don't really make any sense at all. Sigourney Weaver only has a couple of scenes in the movie and her character doesn't really do anything special, or anything worth talking about.
I love Han Zimmer music in every movie he's part of and in this movie his music once again was great to listen to, but that quickly stopped as the music changed into Die Antwoord music. I know some people out there are fans of they music but I'm not. This has to be the worst and the most annoying piece of music I ever heard. It was trash music and I hated it.
Listen, you had no idea how much I wanted this to be good. I wanted this to be amazing, but I was extremely disappointed and kind of upset that this turned out to be bad. The movie could have Neill Blomkamp second best film and it could broken new grounds with it's story and message, but no, you know what we got? Annoying human characters that I couldn't give a damn if they die or not, and the movie itself was a big giant mess. I'm pretty shocked how messy this film is.
It has some elements that work but misses the mark
You need quite a bit of suspension of disbelief for this movie, but if you can get past that, its quite enjoyable. There's lots of things that don't make much sense, but the overall story is good, and contrary to some people here, I actually really enjoyed the ending, it was probably the best part of the movie.
Happy end... and I wanted to know more about Yolandi Visser... I was shocked when I found out Ninja and Yolandi used their rap names in the movie and they play in a South Africa hip hop group "Die Antwoord"!
[Die Antwoord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Antwoord)
That's not how it works, that's not how any of this works! (just another AI wannabe mess)
Horrible writing full of cheesiness and dumbness which can be funny in a sense. "Chappie don't kill" "Chappie don't let people tell you what to do"... OK...
I don't know who the target audience for this was kids? adults? dumb adults?
It's part Robocop and part Short Circuit, as a malfunction-prone police android attains consciousness and sets about learning how to live. Along the way, his lessons grow decidedly human, as he falls in with a small gang of criminals and inherits their speech, style, and sense of political outrage.
I'd file it right alongside Neil Blomkamp's first two efforts, District 9 and Elysium, in that it's a technically stunning dose of conceptual wonder, grounded with a strong topical message, that just so happens to fall into the framework of a terribly simple, overplayed basic storyline. It's easy to see the promise in this work, the intense seed of morality that Blomkamp has tried so desperately to inject into a pop sci-fi shell, but for all those lofty aspirations it feels astonishingly mundane.
He doesn't squeeze much from his cast - Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver are both unusually flat - and the constant stream of Die Antwoord propaganda is a bit befuddling. On one hand, the musical duo has legit street cred that makes the picture come across as more authentic and unusual, but on the other it's a great big reach to spotlight them as serious leading actors.
As far as technical showcases go, this is top-notch. It really feels like the mechanical creatures are right there on the set, living, breathing and performing alongside their human counterparts. It looks like nothing else on the market, too, with fascinating art direction (and universally absurd hairstyling) that outright demands attention. A shame there's really so little to it, though, beyond a predictable set of general developments and a hollow, silly grand finale.
Really bad movie. Acting was awful. Characters were terrible. I usually like robot/AI movies, but you should give this one a pass.
Enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to.
Military robot become self aware, a group of humans try to save it. He names himself Johnny Five oops, Chappie. This is the same story as Short Circuit, just 29 years later.
Had me going 'what' throughout the entire film
a quiet surprise storyline. but can do much better.
This is a confusing movie and difficult to review. Not because I didn’t understand what was going on but because it was such a hotchpotch of different films, different styles tonally and different views or ideas. Some people would say that this is great but for me none of it meshed.
Which is a real shame because there is great film here hindered by too many different influences and too much corner cutting in the story department.
Being set in Johannesburg, like District 9, I found the different accents and scenery refreshing but nothing radically so. We start off in pure RoboCop territory with the Scouts supplementing the police in their tough work, tasks that look like a hard day during World War Three but this is effective and sets up the story well – even though I Robot, RoboCop and The Terminator are peaking from behind the scenery throughout.
The film then goes a bit ‘wobbly’ as we expect one man, on his own, being able to perfect Artificial Intelligence, in his living room and we meet what appears to be ruthless criminals.
Therein lies the quandary. What is the tone? Are the South African criminals lovely rogues or hard-skinned killers, is Yo-Landi as soft as marshmallow or a hardened gunslinger? The film makers don’t seem to know themselves veering from one to the other and for me at least this was jarring.
Likewise, the action at times you think that it’s the time of film were no one really gets hurt, then a man gets ruthlessly shot and later on ripped in half. To me it is like someone else edited the film without the director and writers input and got it wrong a bit.
The big question about consciousness and the meaning of being alive are asked in an interesting way. Only for the answer to be given definitively at the end, which is silly and a cop out.
The acting throughout is good, in particular the mo-capped Sharlto Copley, who always gives value, although rappers Ninja and Yo-Landi, playing characters with the same names, bounce between ‘good’ to ‘you aren’t an actor’ moments. In fact, their characters are definitely the most poorly written with them being either rather horrible to actually quite nice but at the flip of a coin. This made them unrealistic and confusing throughout.
All in all, I think this was a good story, I particular liked the very end that could lead onto another film with much bigger questions, but some plot devices and holes were just too big and too coincidental to really work. I know it is a film made to entertain but when an event occurs that could destroy the whole story with one simple action perhaps the makers should concentrate on these little moments in the script. I mean Tetravaal really need to up their security as it was far too easy to drive in and out of the premises with nicked stuff.
, There’s a great film in here somewhere but some poor choices and editing definitely subtracted something from the finished product.
Really really REALLY bad and annoying movie. Probably Hugh Jackmans worst performance of all time too.
Unwatchebly bad. The story makes no sense at all. The only believable character is the one that Dev Patel is playing. The performance of basically all actors is cringeworthy and looks like they generally didn't give a shit at even delivering the terrible lines. CGI is decent and the robot looks believable. If you want to watch this for some reason, then atleast Chappie himself is somewhat entertaining. Everything around him definetly isn't though.
The main character is the robot. He (apparently he is a boy as is said multiple times, generally every plot point gets explained atleast 5 times so even the dumbest person on this planet can atleast get what the fuck is going on in this flick) has to deal with a lot of stuff ( I don't want to spoil it for you ;) ), but I never found myself connecting with him.
Personally I found myself not wanting to continue watching due to the numerous mistakes, weak plot, weak characters. To bring this into perspective: I enjoyed the last Terminator (Genesys, Genesis, Genisus, whatever), which was quite dumb aswell.
While I feel like the collaboration with Die Antwoord took up a bit too much narrative energy, the movie strikes oil with a smartly-told story of innocence.
That movie is sooo awesome!
I guess I´m 30 years too old for this because all this gangsta behavior really annoyed me. Those brain-dead characters and all this crap talk destroyed the whole idea of the movie for me which is a shame because technically this was really good.
Furthermore I think that was Jackmann´s worst role and Weaver´s was rather insignificant. So I conclude they were casted to gain interest for the US market.
Seen a District 9, which was a horrible movie for me, I tought that this is some crappy movie, but definitley i was wrong. Chappie is a good movie! I am not a robot movies fan, but to be honest I enjoyed it :) Great story and in some places very emotional. Almost started crying at some places :D
Who knows, maybe Chappie 2 will come in the future, because of the end :)
Movie that won't show somethin spectacular to talk about for days. On the otheer hand, it is better than many other movies these days so you won't regret spending 2 hours infront screen. Avoiding of comparation to "District 9" is impossible. Two world famous actors, S. Weaver and H. Jackman are the bonus. Enjoy!
Buyt it: a decent movie, visually vey well polished and the story has some depth. As a whole the movie is just a little above average.
Chappie is a good story with bad cinematic execution. I am no "cinema guy", but I feel that it's plot is too shallow. Events and dialogues feels "silly". They could've done better with the idea. Still, I am giving 8/10 for this.
WHAT! After District 9i was really looking forward to this film. Acting was awful especially the silly girl. The while evolution of Chappie was wrong, if it had no knowledge at all, why would it act like a baby? How would it know fear?
One for the kids, my friends
The idea is not new, but the story is well developed, and the sense of humanity of the characters is progressively injected to the viewer by pulsating action phases (some very emotional). It's not too manichean, even with an inevitable bad guy, and there's some laughs to relieve the tension of action/emotional phases that fit perfectly with the main character development. There's a lot less political highlights than in District 9, but it's in favor of a deeper questioning of ethics, a bit of humanity and mortality (like an addendum of "daddy" and "mommy" to the idea of a "maker" - Don't expect a Blade Runner though). Although the A.I. aspect is quite simplistic, the paradigm of human childhood serves well the learning curve of emotions by Chappie.
I would recommend Ex Machina for a more "logical", or even coherent approach of A.I.
That being said, and here the spoiler is inevitable, the ending (or corrected ending maybe?) is too much of a happy one, as almost none of the characters sparking off empathy is really dead. In my opinion, a better ending would have been right after Deon wakes is his new "body", with no other mean to save Chappie, like an emphasis on the robot sacrifice as a choice and not only a programming. (Also sacrificing for his maker would prove to be nonsensical for a superior machine, as it is not, but simply some kind of human...different.)
Maybe too much of a Terminator 2 feel, but I must say it reminded me a lot of it. with the tension of a kind of "chase" after one or another character throughout the movie, the learning of emotions and human nature by the robot from castaways, but I might be obsessed with Terminator 2, and Chappie can't hold a candle to it.
Hans Zimmer's music is quite discreet before the soundtrack from Die Antwoord mainly, but it goes well along with the setting. Ok it's getting annoying after a couple of songs, but still.
Well, you can't have Terminator 2's main theme in all S-F movies, can you? (I would)
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable !! fantastic !! brilliant !!! Finally something new ....
Unoriginal, unmeaningful, unfunny and predictable.
The relation to artificial intelligence is sketchy at best... If you are expecting a Sci-Fi thriller about AI, this ain't it.
I lov this movie,its funny.. am nt geeting much into concepts or story line coz every one has its own opinions. do I recommend this to you? definitely YES!! enjoy.
To be honest I only started watching this movie because Yolandi Visser and Watkin Tudor Jones where starring on it. Even thought their acting wasn't the best that didn't stopped me from enjoying the movie.
one of the worst films I've ever seen, I couldn't tell if it's just a very unfunny comedy or it's genuinely as hammy as it is. Disastrous acting, plot and directing.
Reasonably enjoyable to watch, but the ending is extremely predictable, if you've seen District 9 it basically takes the same route, and disappointing.
The worst thing about this movie is how it handles the concept of consciousness, or rather the way it doesn't. Instead of going the philosophical way, it takes a very one dimensional approach to it, which is a missed opportunity in my opinion. This keeps it all very superficial and shallow.
Also the way Chappie himself is portrayed becomes somewhat annoying halfway through the movie.
The idea is great but it is very bad developed. There's a lot of illogical mistakes.
At the beginnig i thought "Oh, another bad Robocop movie", but the idea is so much more. But a good idea is not enough. The acting is poor and the plot has weak points. My conclusion is that its still a good movie for home entertainment.
This one should be awesome!! Die Antwoord AND robots? Come on! Might even catch this in cinema...
Shout by DmitryBlockedParent2015-03-07T12:29:54Z
Story, characters, visuals, sound. They're really polished and has a lot of small, but noticeable things that make you smile. Sadly, I can't tell the same about the ending. I don't know, had it been corrected or something, but it's so illogical and silly. Still, Chappie IS a very good movie worth watching.