Jexi (2019)
Directed by Scott Moore
Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.
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What critics compared Jexi to
Long ago, in the age of Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” and Woody Allen in “Annie Hall,” right up through the farcical social misfits of the 1980s (Anthony Michael Hall in “Sixteen Candles,” etc.), Hollywood’s freaks and geeks had an undertone of self-hatred.
Unlike the soothing, alluring Scarlett Johansson voice of “Her,” Jexi speaks — in the voice of Rose Byrne — in that neutrally prerecorded, emphasis-on-the-wrong-syllable vintage robot Siri monotone.
Spike Jonze’s Her or Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime are great examples of this.
It’s a B-comedy riff on Spike Jonze ’s “ Her ,” the movie in which Joaquin Phoenix ’s painfully shy character falls in love with an operating system.
“Jexi,” a comedy written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, does not explicitly position itself as a parody of “Her,” the poignant 2013 love story of a man and a very empathetic piece of software.
As Jexi appears to develop feelings for Phil, viewers will certainly be reminded of Her, in which Joaquin Phoenix’s character becomes infatuated with his own phone’s AI.