Quantum Is Calling (2016 TV Short) User Reviews (2)

Where is Schrödinger

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 17 June 2019]

I think this short directed by Alex Winter (Bill in the Bill & Ted movies) has something to do with quantum mechanics. I found Zoe Saldana's acting to be too hysterical to fully understand it.

Zoe is meant to look after Simon Pegg's cat Schrödinger while he is away.

The trouble is Schrödinger jumps into a box that Zoe opened and the cat disappears.

Is the cat both alive and dead or just elsewhere.

Zoe calls Paul Rudd who puts her through to Professor Stephen Hawking.

There are lots of references to Star Trek (John Cho makes a cameo) and The Matrix (Keanu Reeves lends his voice.)

It is a bit of frivolous fun but I did think the science behind it disappeared.

Even worse than the previous

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 28 January 2018]

"Quantum Is Calling" is an 11-minute comedy live action short film from December 2016 that is the second film in the Quantum series and this one does not star Paul Rudd again, but Zoe Saldana instead. Stephen Hawking shows up again too, significantly early on and then at the very end briefly again. It is fairly difficult to say what the most embarrassing aspect about this one was: the horrible script? the famous actors introducing themselves / being introduced by each other (the Reeves moment was especially cringeworthy)? the shot at making this an actually interesting SciFi film that even takes itself seriously? the superlative about Hawking early on? (no he is not!) Saldana shamelessly ham overacting? I guess it may be the latter. Overall, it is never an interesting watch and even I as an animal lover could not have cared less what happened to the cat. I was not a big fan of the first short already, but it was still far far ahead of this one here, which is so bad it is almost unwatchable. Huge thumbs-down and I hope that's where they end the series, even if admittedly a third film could not be any worse than this one. Really don't watch.