IncaWelCar In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

SCIFIshant This movie had a lot to live up to. Forbidden Planet while not being my favorite sci-fi film is still a respectable title for how much it has contributed to the genre with Robby the Robot and it's hand-crafted martian landscapes and strange immersive soundtrack, but this film is completely predictable and makes absolutely no sense. The story begins when a curious boy finds Robby the Robot and fixes him up. My first question is how is this kid able to rebuild a robot?! He is five! Even for a science fiction film this seems extremely absurd. The boy connects Robby to the super computer without any adult supervision. I get it this is a FICTIONAL story, but who the hell would let a kid mess around with a government super-computer?! Anyways, the kid ends up evading US Troops and enters a rocket which somehow flies to space. The computer takes control of Robby and Robby almost kills the kid until the father of the boy finally turns off the supercomputer. Two words COMMON SENSE those are two things this movie lacks. The only good thing is the music and Robby the Robot. I believe this is a sequel to Forbidden Planet since it was on the BluRay disc as an extra. If this was a sequel to that film then OH BOY THEY MESSED UP!

utgard14 MGM sci-fi flick about a young boy and his robot friend trying to stop an evil supercomputer from taking over the world. There is some invisibility in this one but it seems like it was just tacked-on to justify the title. It's certainly not important to the plot. This has no connection with the earlier Invisible Man series from Universal, either. It has somewhat of a connection to the classic Forbidden Planet, which was the first movie with Robby the Robot. Here, it's said Robby was brought from the future via time travel so there's an implication (though never stated definitely) that it's the same character from the other film. This is more of a kiddie movie than serious science fiction. It goes on longer than necessary and offers little to impress. The cast is fine, although child actor Richard Eyer seems like a poor man's Jerry Mathers. The best thing about the movie (besides Robby, of course) are the old-school computers and whatnots. Silly but charming in its way. It's no Forbidden Planet, that's for sure.

jimreiter While watching the opening credits, all the actors in the film were unknown to me, all except for the last name shown, Robby the Robot. Upon seeing Robby's name, I knew I was going to have an enjoyable evening of home video watching. I am a big fan of Robby, he has to be one of the few film props with his own IMDb page and numerous credits to his name. Robby's co-star, Richard Eyer, plays the part of Timmie Merrinoe, a ten year old boy, the only child of Dr. Tom and Mary Merrinoe, played by Phillip Abbott and Dianne Brewster respectively. This film is set in the paranoia of the cold war as Dr. Tom Merrinoe's work involves using a super computer to monitor the nuclear activity of the Soviet Union. While hanging out in his father's computer lab, the Super Computer manages to make Timmie super smart, and then has Timmie put Robby together from a pile of robot parts. The Super Computer is actually evil and has plans of world domination, which is why he took control of Timmie as the Super Computer needs Robby the Robot do his evil bidding. Little Timmie eventually develops the ability to become invisible with aid of Robby and the Super Computer. As one might expect Timmie has fun with his invisibility by playing tricks until his Parent's discover the truth about their son's new ability, sending him to his room. The main purpose of Timmie becoming invisible was to show off invisible gags and have a cool name for the film, it really wasn't germane to the central theme of an evil computer taking over the world. The Super Computer eventually has Robby hold Timmie hostage in order to get Timmie's Father and the government to do his bidding. When the Super Computer tells Robby to destroy Timmie, he can not and turns on the Super Computer. All ends well at the end as Robby joins the nuclear family of Timmie and his Parent's with Timmie once again among the visible. As silly as the premise of the film is and probably was, it is still good clean fun, and it is a film the entire family can watch. The props and special effects incorporated in this film were typical of a Sci-Fi B movie of this time period, with Robby of course was the coolest of them. The corny simplicity of this film is what I liked best beside Robby. This film is fun, just don't take it too seriously.

oscar-35 This film was charming to review and gives us some of the 50's thoughts and fears. It is charming because it shows us a nuclear family with precocious son of a government rocket scientist. The son's casting is another of Hollywood's predilection with red haired and freckle-faced son/ actors mid-America types that goes to Ron 'Opie Taylor' Howard, today. Another gem of this film is the appearance of 'Robby the Robot' an icon of 50's sci-fi films. This robot's first appearance was in the epic 'Forbidden Planet'. However in this film Robby has a more sinister role by being the unwilling agent of the super computer. The large cast of important roles does a nice job in building the suspense. The super computer trying to taking over worldwide humanity is a well-used film theme with the best redo in "Colossus, the Forbin Project", "2001", and a few more. The ending of the film taking place aboard the spaceship is somewhat unsatisfactory and hard to accept. But then the film's ending is also vintage 50's family sitcom's 'happy ending'.