Making Mr. Right Reviews

For those who thrill to feminist sermonizing and relish a male android slavishly worshipping at a heroine's feet, then this movie is a must. For mainstream audiences, however, MAKING MR. RIGHT is all wrong as an entertainment vehicle. There is a touch of the "good-and-evil twin" theme here, but it's lost somewhere in the witless dialog and harangues from Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson), a high-powered publicist who is trying to work with Jeff Peters (John Malkovich), a scientist who has created an affable android in his own image. Frankie is supposed to teach the android Ulysses (also played by Malkovich) the proper social and intellectual graces. The inventor is a cold and clinical sort who displays no human compassion at all. Conversely, the android starts to develop human emotions, becoming gentle, loving, and sensitive--essentially just the man Frankie is seeking. Magnuson attempts to display the inner dilemma of a modern feminist at odds with the traditional image of womanhood, but this only produces a lot of gobbledegook. Malkovich plays the android like a cretin or a smiling robot. The direction is dreary, plodding along without invention or creativity.