Malice@Doll (2000)

In the great tradition of other prostitute robot doll movies like Pinnochio, a whorebot is raped by a monster which causes her to become a real live woman!

I agree that this sounds somewhat disturbing. After all, it’s clear this movie will have some sort of message about the nature of what it is to be human and to have our deepest dreams and desires be fulfilled and the unexpected prices we have to pay for that. I don’t know about you, but I just signed on to see a bunch of cyborgs bump sprockets!

The movie drops us into this post-apocalyptic world without any explanation, but really, what explanation is going to serve to explain why computer generated sexbots are the only things left on Earth?

Sure, there are some other machines as well such as Joe Admin, the thing in charge, as well as another machine that acts as some sort of guard, though I was never too sure what it would be guarding anything from or why it would be bothering to guard these robot hoochies.

One of the dolls is named Malice and she is among a handful of these dolls that have continued to function after the end of the world. Her days are spent walking the streets trying to hump fire hydrants and mailboxes or whatever else is still out there.

Malice is in need of some repairs so she heads up to the part of the building or city or whatever she was inhabiting to get to the Repairer. Everything goes according to plan with the small exception that she ends up in a strange room and gets assaulted by a strange creature with lots of slimy appendages. Next thing we know, Malice Doll has transformed into Malice, the human woman!

Malice is as surprised as anyone to find that she has actual flesh and bone and this immediately marks her as an outcast among her former friends, but Malice hasn’t just been given human form by this sexual assault. She also got a really cool super power in the bargain – her kiss can now turn other machines into humans as well!

Some of her pals are a tad reticent about this, but eventually most everyone gets in on the act, though a lot of them don’t turn out as well as Malice did.

You see, whereas Malice ended up looking like a regular broad (well, regular in the sense that she looks like what a sexually repressed Japanese guy thinks a regular broad ought to look like), some of her friends look really monstrous, having extra body parts and strange faces and all sorts of icky deformities!

Malice begins to think all this human transformation stuff isn’t maybe all that it’s cracked up to be. Malice ends up ditching her human form for a spirit form.

Say what you want about Malice, but she’s no dummy. She’s astute enough to realize at once that being a human being quite simply sucks and she somehow has the ability to transform again, this time to a little glowing white pixie who flies around and gives Joe Admin a final dramatic kiss.

See, this movie is just like Pinocchio if that little blockhead would have ended up turning into Tinkerbell!

The best thing you can say about this movie (actually three episodes of a video feature cobbled together) is that the computer generated animation is interesting to look at.

Even though the movie itself clocks in at a barely-feature-length 73 minutes or so, that’s still way too long to just be staring at a bunch of pretty pictures.

The story only made the vaguest sense in that I guess I could at least make out the themes they were attempting to push across (you know, all that wishing to be human and what is reality crap), but none of the details made any sense whatsoever.

What was this stupid world we were dumped into? What was that stupid creature that raped Malice. Why was she transformed? And why was she transformed again? Into a fairy? Aside from all that though, why should I even care about a robot without any feelings anyway?

I don’t even think she longed to be human at the beginning like a lot of these types of characters do. How is the audience supposed to be drawn into any of the events that transpired? Not coherent enough for regular audiences and not dirty enough for cartoon pervs. A total turnoff.

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