E.T. the Extra-Tutorial  Kubrick seems to guide Spielberg's hand
in the ponderous A.I.  What follows next is perhaps the most
twisted Kubrick-Spielberg amalgam imaginable: We're introduced
to Gigolo Joe, played by Jude Law behind a thin veneer of makeup
that turns him into a human-size sex doll -- Fred Astaire on the
dance floor, John Holmes in the sack. Living in a sleazed-out
town, Joe comes across as something that could have been cooked
up by Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove collaborator Terry Southern, a
man fond of his kink. "Once you have a lover robot," Joe brags,
"you'll never go back." But Joe is nothing more than a plot
device, the older brother David never had. He belongs in a
different movie -- a fun one.  When Joe finds himself in bed
with a dead girl, he's forced to go on the run and winds up in a
robot graveyard in which outdated, gruesomely half-destroyed
models scavenge for parts. David and Joe are rounded up for a
Flesh Fair, where mechas are destroyed on stage for human
amusement. It's a horrific