Chappie [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Director: Neill Blomkamp Neill Blomkamp

Overview

Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) expands on his 2003 short film Tetra Val in this futuristic sci-fi saga written in collaboration with screenwriter Terri Tatchell (who previously worked with Blomkamp on the screenplay for District 9), centering on the story of a police robot named Chappie, who develops the ability to think and feel for himself. As people fight back against the mechanized police force, sinister forces seek to capture Chappie for their nefarious purposes.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/01/2016
UPC:	0043396470439
Original Release:	2015
Source:	SONY PICT
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	11,673

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dev Patel	Deon Wilson
Ninja	Actor
Yolandi Visser	Yo-Landi
Jose Pablo Cantillo	Yankie (Amerika)
Sigourney Weaver	Michelle Bradley
Hugh Jackman	Vincent Moore
Brandon Auret	Hippo
Johnny K. Selema	Actor
Anderson Cooper	Actor
Maurice Carpede	Police Chief
Jason Cope	Tetravaal Lead Mechanic
Kevin Otto	Interviewer
Chris Shields	Journalist
Bill Marchant	Professor
Robert Hobbs	Actor
Mark K. Xulu	Gang Member
Sherldon Marema	Gang Member
Shaheed Hajee	Gang Member
David Davadoss	Mercedes Benz Driver
Anneli Muller	BMW Driver
Kendal Watt	Nissan Driver
Eugene Khumbanyiwa	King
Chan Marti	Field Reporter
Vuyelwa Booi	Field Reporter
Mike Blomkamp	Police Officer,Actor
Anthony Bishop	Police Officer
Paul Dobson	Police Robots
Max Poolman	Hippo's Thug
Alistair Prodgers	Tetravaal Mechanic
Wandile Molebatsi	Armored Truck Guard
Arran Henn	VSN News Desk Reporter
Thami Ngubeni	VSN News Desk Reporter
James Bitonti	Gun Store Owner
Andea DeJager	Tetravaal Office Assistant
Hein DeVries	Special Forces Soldier
Daniel Hirst	Merc,Merc
Paul Hampshire	Merc
Timmo Niesner	Voices
Sharlto Copley	Chappie
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Neill Blomkamp

Terri Tatchell

Neill Blomkamp	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Terri Tatchell	Screenwriter
Simon Kinberg	Producer
Robin D'Arcy	Executive Producer
Ben Waisbren	Executive Producer,Producer
Steve Boeddeker	Sound/Sound Designer,Sound Effects
Dave Whitehead	Sound/Sound Designer
Sarah Morris	Production Manager
Steven St. Arnaud	Production Manager
Matthew Wilson	Sound Editor
Michelle Child	Sound Editor,Sound Effects
Gord Hillier	Sound Editor
Kerry Gregg	Stunts
Grant Hulley	Stunts
Max Poolman	Special Effects Supervisor
Dinesh Acharya	Special Effects
Craig Berkey	Sound Effects
Chris Chae	Sound Effects
Chris Navarro	Sound Effects
Ken Saville	Sound Effects
Andy Malcolm	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Is it Short Circuit, or is it Robocop? The studio presenting Chappie couldn't make up its mind either, with one trailer emphasizing gut-punching explosions and macho android posturing, and the other featuring a shy robot exploring the contents of a refrigerator and listening to bedtime stories. This sci-fi action drama by innovative South African director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) invites comparisons to both movies, but the end result is more ambitious and profound than either. In the near future, Johannesburg's police force has been replaced with obedient robots with combat intelligence. Their invention has been a boon for law enforcement, as well as for manufacturing CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver), but there's dissent in the latter's ranks. Roboticist Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman) is suspicious of any kind of machine without a human at the helm, while engineer Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) thinks artificial intelligence hasn't gone far enough. In his spare time, Wilson has been working on a more sophisticated program that can think, learn, and create. When his boss nixes the project, he secretly snags the opportunity to test his software on a model that's going to be junked anyway. It's a foolproof plan -- at least until a pair of low-level criminals (Yolandi Visser and Ninja of the South African rap duo Die Antwoord) kidnap him and his experiment "Chappie" (played via performance capture by Blomkamp's go-to leading man Sharlto Copley) as part of their plan to pay back a drug debt. As a newborn consciousness, Chappie is fearful and tender, eliciting kindness from his foster "mother"(Visser) and amazement from his "maker"(Patel), but disdain and frustration from his "father"(Ninja). The three guardians fight over the best way to educate him. With empathy, out of respect for his dawning selfhood? Or with viciousness and swagger, so he can stay alive in their hard world? Blomkamp's movies are linked by the theme of the powerless battling the powerful: District 9 was an extraterrestrial metaphor for South Africa's apartheid, while Elysium represented the conflict between rich and poor. Chappie is about the struggle between children and adults, and about reaching maturity in spite of the baggage imposed by grown-ups and their corrupt society; it's a bildungsroman for the transhuman age. But just because this film is about children doesn't mean it's for them. Its considerable level of violence is nothing compared to the emotional distress meted out to the audience. (When Chappie asks his maker, "Why did you create me knowing I would die?," the question isn't delivered with a quizzical tilt of the head like a golden retriever, but with the genuine anguish of a child horrified by a parent's betrayal.) Yet every frame of this supremely entertaining movie is suffused with confidence, not only in its ability to dish out visceral action thrills, but to do so while still containing the marrow of a very serious meditation on the meaning of existence. In addition, its ingenious finale makes all other films about martyred naïfs look lazy and incomplete by comparison. Superbly satisfying on many levels, Chappie might be one of the best movies of the year.