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Why so much hype?

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I loved the movie and wish I could find it on DVD or even VHS. It's not meant to be a "serious" SF movie, but, like a lot of the SF stories out there, it's a social commentary. Even today (2008), there are still people who are afraid of what computers can do and what we'll eventually let them turn us into. I like the idea of them using Casablanca as part of the movie. We all have a bit of "Rick Blaine" in us, I think. Too afraid to rock the boat, but once we get to the limit of our fear, we don't care about being afraid any more and "do the right thing". The same could be said of the characters in Overdrawn. I'd love to have my kids watch this movie. It's a hoot.

I loved Overdrawn at the Memory Bank simply because MST3000 did a wonderful job bashing the movie. Fingal (Raul Julia) is some Casablanca junkie who gets "doppled" into a body of a monkey for compulsory prophylactic rehab when his body becomes tampered with by a demonic child, sending him for a sex change operation instead! This somehow causes an energy surge in which Fingal stops dabbling in dopples and becomes trapped into the supercomputer HX368. He then uses his wit and cunning to make it through his self-perpetuated reenactment of Casablanca and to become interfaced with the HX368. All the while the computer which holds Fingals' memories and conscious are on the verge of being obliterated by the short shelf life of doppling cubes. I don't recommend buying this movie unless of course it is Volume 4 of MST3000 DVD set. I liked it for it's humor and weird filming effects. The whole movie is filmed like a dream sequence, with a slight haze around the lenses of the cameras.

A muddled story of computer programmer Aram Fingal (Raul Julia) who works for vicious corporation Novicorp. They transfer his mind to that of a baboon (a good metaphor for the whole movie), and from there, Aram gets caught in the computer and creates his own world, in which he gets to be Rick from "Casablanca". One of his co-programmers (Linda Griffiths) tries to help him get back into the real world.It's little more than a "Tron" ripoff. Trying too hard to be funny, the whole thing ends up idiotic. Granted, the movie wasn't a total waste: "MST3K" did a great job ripping it apart. What is really hard to believe is that Raul Julia starred in "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" the same year that he starred in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"!

This is a pretty amusing flick for sci-fi fans. I like movies with computers and stuff, like Tron and Wargames and Brainscan. So this is far out too. The best thing about it is the story which is very original and creative. There are no totally unlikely stuff like in another sci-fi, if you know what I mean. There are also no plot holes or dumbing down. Well some bad things then. First, the main actor -- Raul Julia -- is not very sexy really. I think he looks more like a janitor than a computer hacker. Hackers maybe aren't very sexy, but he is none the less not only a hacker. Ok enough of that. Secondly, it looks cheap, and sometimes it looks idiotic. I don't know why it looks idiotic, it just does. I give the movie a 5 / 10.