The science fiction "sleeper" of 1982, Android is a delightfully inventive creation blending special effects, sci-fi hokum and Chaplinesque humor. Former film theoretician Aaron Lipstadt here makes his feature film debut directing Android for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. The setting is a space station in the year 2036. Dr. Daniel (the mad Klaus Kinski) is involved with a Frankensteinian obsession, the making of androids. He has succeeded in fashioning one, his assistant, Max 404 (played by his real creator, co-scriptwriter Don Opper). Max 404 is an all-too-humanoid being, eager to please but comically unskilled in intercourse, social and otherwise. Max 404's intellectual curiosity directs him to the study of earthlings--specifically, the generation of the '50s and '60s--and he longs to visit the land of rock'n'roll. However, androids have been banned from earth since an earlier rebellion. Max seems destined to remain a distant observer until the arrival at the space station of three escaped convicts provides him with a possible hitch-hike through the galaxy. But Dr. Daniel sees among the visitors a likely model for his newest creation, the perfect female android, Cassandra, and has no intention of letting them escape. Variety called Android "one of the best low-budget sci-fiers and the most interesting in-house New World production to come down the pike in some time. Making the most of its severe monetary limitations and consistently applying wit and intelligence to formulaic genre requirements, pic will particularly delight cognoscenti of futurism, ensuring cult status... Most pix of this ilk offer nothing but cardboard characters, so it's additionally commendable that not only Max but the three fugitives...come across with strong personalities..."