Hot Bot (2016) Reviews

• What is a hot bot not? Funny, that's what it's not.

  BA_Harrison2016-03-13

  Hot Bot's writer/director Michael Polish clearly intended for his teen sex comedy to be a hilarious mix of Weird Science and Superbad, Cynthia Kirchner's high-tech sex robot Bardot replacing Kelly LeBrock's living Barbie-doll, with high-school geeks Leonard Stupenski (Zack Pearlman) and Limus Huffington (Doug Haley) a cross between Superbad's Seth and Evan and Weird Science's Gary and Wyatt. What he actually delivers is a charmless wreck of a film with zero laughs that is about as sexy as sticking your dick in a light socket. Limus is a scrawny, lank haired dweeb with a charisma bypass, while his best friend Leonard is unlikeable in almost every way imaginable (imagine an even more irritating version of Jonah Hill crossed with Jack Black at his most grating, and you're not even close to how obnoxious this guy is). Within minutes, I was rooting for these idiots to be captured by the FBI agents—who are hunting for the missing sex-bot—and made to 'disappear' (ie., a shot to the back of the head and a shallow grave); sadly, they're there for the duration, 86 painful minutes of desperately unfunny, puerile gags as the lads try to keep Bardot from her intended owner, sleaze-ball Senator Biter (Larry Miller). After much inane 'comedy' during which neither nerd scores with the sex-bot (despite being invited to f*** within minutes of meeting her), Polish adds insult to injury with several supposedly hilarious out-takes during the end credits that somehow prove even less funny than the stuff that made it into the film.

• Unwatchable

  ivko2016-04-06

  Some talented comedians are in this, but don't let that fool you. It's not funny, sexy, or interesting. I watched the first 11 minutes and 34 seconds on Netflix, then flipped to the last 5 to see how it ended and couldn't make it; it was just too painful to watch. The writer and director should be drummed out of the industry and be sentenced to watch this film in its entirety every day for the rest of their lives. Apparently this review needs 10 lines to be publishable. I find it ironic that the standards required for me to warn you how awful this, this whatever it is (visual sadness?), are apparently higher than the standards required to produce it in the first place.

• Don't...just don't.....

  andy-710642016-03-13

  As other reviewers have said, this is a pile of poo, it's dreadful. I couldn't find one redeeming scene or performance in the whole damn movie. The 2 geeks are awful stereotypes, one taking unlikeability to a whole new level and the other one just bland, bland, bland. The "hot bot" isn't, not even lukewarm. If you're thinking Kelly le Brock in weird science then stop now, she's nowhere close. The script is awful too. It's just a really bad movie.

• Holy CRAP! And by CRAP I mean CRAP!

  BartSamson2016-03-04

  Spoiler: THIS MOVIE IS A PIECE OF CRAP!!! Holy mother of God... I'm ashamed for Larry Miller, Danny Masterson, Angela Kinsey and everybody that worked on that piece of CRAP! The movie wants to be "Weird Science" meets "Superbad" meets "E.T." but it's just a big piece of dog crap! The script is totally inane, character's psychology and development is non-existent, and the direction is worse than all the rest! I saw it on NetFlix and was tempted to ask for my $8 back for the month! My only advice is to stay away from this PIECE OF CRAP! Go re-watch "Weird Science", "Superbad" and "E.T." instead! Oh, did I mention it? This movie is freaking' PILE OF DOG CRAP!

• If you laugh, it will be at it not with it.

  ginglederf2018-09-25

  I'm going to start off by saying if you are watching this "comedy" for sex scenes, you will be sorely disappointed because no one gets laid. I will say I did enjoy the first thirty or so minutes of this film, solely to Mystery Science 3000 it. The film has numerous plot holes and problems, that I will detail below. For one, the annoying fat kid is clearly a discount Seth from Superbad, but not funny or likeable. The other one, I couldn't even tell you about because he has the personality of a desk lamp. I'm not even sure if he spoke the entire movie because he is that forgettable. Secondly, a lot of the plot didn't make sense or was just stupid. I may have misunderstood this, but did the sex shop owner say the thing ran on Wi-Fi? What? And why on earth would you need to give it your credit card information, which apparently charged the kids dad $70,000. Are you meaning to tell me that a 500k sex robot has micro transactions? Who so going to shell out that kind of money just to be charged more to use the damn thing. Speaking of the price, I swear at the beginning they said it cost 500k but then later the FBI (who were involved for some reason) said it cost a little under 300k. Also, at the end this robot just boards a flight with no issues well the FBI gets cavity searched. Are you telling me two FBI agents can't get through TSA un-scathed but sex robot somehow walked through a metal detector and boarded a plane no problem? I also thought it was worth mentioning there was an odd and uncomfortable scene where the senator breaks into the boring ones house, talks about his old masterbation habits and then molests the guy for no obvious reason.