While nearly every filmmaker ever would agree with you, I had an epiphany about this movie a few years ago. The ending is not in fact an odd left-turn into sentimentality, but the necessary resolution of a tragic story.

I realize this response is a lot late coming, but the last scene of A.I. is essential to the tale. For a long time, I shared your view of where to end the film, but then it hit me. David, who cannot be real in his mother’s world, spends the majority of the film seeking the blue fairy to make him real. When David…

“The team fundamentally isn’t all that good.”