Cyber-C.H.I.C. (1989)

Directors:

Ed Hansen
Jeffrey Mandel

Writers:

Ed Hansen (writer)
Jeffrey Mandel (writer)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Plot:

A cybernetic agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring.

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Robot | Cyborg | Independent Film

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Kathy Shower	...	ROBO-C.H.I.C.
Burt Ward	...	Johnson
Jack Carter	...	Dr. Bourgeus
Phil Proctor	...	Police Chief Marlon
Kip King	...	Dr. Von Solon
Ranson Baker	...	John Kent
Jeff Austin	...	Rufus
Tony Miller	...	Denny
Erik Fledsion	...	Einstein
Jeffrey Judson Smith	...	Dawg (as Jeffrey Smith)
Peter Johnson	...	Gimp, The Satan's Onion
Paul Rohrer	...	Sgt. Ryan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shanna Lynn	...	Biker girl
Julie Newmar
Lyle Waggoner

Also Known As:

Robo-Chic

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Trivia:

Star Kathy Shower was also the executive producer, but she quit the picture soon after filming began. Another (uncredited) actress was hired to impersonate her.

Horrible. Just horrible.

I've got a little confession to make. I'm one of the easiest-to-please movie goers out there. I liked BALLISTICS: ECKS VS. SEVER. I liked THE TUXIDO. I enjoyed MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE so much I saw it almost to the point of having it memorized. Hell, I was even entertained by JOHNNEY MENOMIC. So what does all this have to do with ROBO C.H.I.C.? (Or Cyber Chick or whatever) Just this: when I think a movie was hard to sit through and it's not some intellectual, artsy, slice-of-life film, you know it's BAD. Half of what makes it so painful to watch is the fact that the actress who plays the title character tries WAY too hard to act like an emotionless robot. (Maybe she should've just tried acting "normal", snicker.) The rest of the cast isn't much better, everyone tries to be funny and ends up just being annoying. Of course the film does try to be intentionally goofy, as a spoof of ROBO COP, it's just that it ends up being so in an irritating way instead of a genuinely funny, entertaining way. It's been years since I saw this so I can't remember much about the plot or so many of the things wrong with it, just the general way it made me felt. What's more, the only ways I would ever see this a second time was if someone stuck a gun to my head or eles offered me a minimum of a thousand dollars and I knew he was good to his word. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!