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Is NOTHING sacred?

Short Circuit, the wacky 80s film about a sentient robot, is being re-made by the guy who directed Paul Blart, Mall Cop.

Here's my thing: if you want to make a wacky robot movie, make a wacky robot movie.

But make your own wacky robot movie.

Short Circuit was fine. You're not going to improve it.

Surely anything you felt was left unsaid by the first wacky 80s robot movie was addressed by its sequel, Short Circuit 2 (which asked the eternal question: what if a sentient robot moved to the big city, tried to break into the toy industry and found himself embroiled in a jewel theft plot that forced him to become a badass crime fighting robot?).

Go out and create THIS generation's wacky robot film.

Dream that dream.

Reach for the stars.

Create the limping, sputtering, barely-worth-reviving franchises of TOMORROW.

You know, something our grandchildren can remake.