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Are Vanessa's parents real people?

posted 13 years ago by DeRo64
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I mean, were they complicit with Dr Evil in planting a robot spy with MI6 or whatever Powers is a part of? Wait a minutes ... didn't Frau Farbissina introduce Dr. Evil to the fem bots in 1997? They didn't seem to have nearly as much personality as Vanessa, so wouldn't she be an advanced model despite being made decades earlier? This makes no sense!!!
Okay, so I know they time-travel in this movie, but... You know what? Forget it. I'm going to the bar to get drunk.

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[–] monstermayhem32 13 years ago

It is too bad that this concept was never explained since I doubt that the real Vanessa was killed even though it could have been a possibility.

[–] melco92 13 years ago

Why do you doubt the real Vanessa was killed? It's really the only way it makes sense.

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[–] Darwinskid 12 years ago

The best answer is lazy writing. Hurley, I think, didn't want to return so they had to find a way to get rid of her and had to pay her a ton of money for a cameo at the beginning. The way they go about it in the movie pretty much gives the impression she was a pain to work with and they weren't very bothered to let her go.

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[–] Alice-Morgan 9 years ago

Basically. Even for a dumb movie that was a really dumb twist though..

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1158) 6 years ago

How did you come to that conclusion just from watching the scene? The whole movie is a spoof of 007-type movies, and in 007 movies, he has a different love interest every time, and nothing is said of any past lovers.

[–] DeRo64 12 years ago

Interesting, but that also opens up the gate to a whole bunch of stuff they could have done but for some reason didn't.

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[–] TheLordofTheHarvest 10 years ago

It was more or less the movie's way of parodying the James Bond trope of the previous film's main girls not returning in each sequel (minus Moneypenny/M/Slyvia Trench in From Russia With Love."

It wasn't supposed to make sense and it was just done as a way to eliminate Liz Hurley from the mix. Something must have happened late in the mix to force their change, wonder what it was.

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[–] louiseculmer 9 years ago

It doesn't make sense at all. i suppose when the first film was made, there wasn't a sequel planned, and when they made this one they simply had to come up with a way of writing vanessa out, it would have been better if they hadn't got married at end of the first film, then there would be no need for the absurd fembot vanessa thing.

[–] worc508 9 years ago

I think Vanessa's parents are real. It's just too bad we didn't get like a scene with Mrs Kennsington who was Austin's partner in the sixties commenting about her robotic daughter.

[–] hurricane (1967) 5 years ago

I always took it as part of the joke that the Vanessa reveal made no sense.

When Basil Exposition told Austin that he'd known she was a Fembot all along, Austin looked at the camera in something of a confused manner. I took this as a fourth wall breaking moment, as if to admit even he knew it made no sense.