Review – The Invisible Boy

Hey, we’ve got this leftover Robby the Robot suit from Forbidden Planet. Audiences liked the robot in that one. Maybe we could make another movie and they’d like him again, even if it was a really cheap production with a terrible script and bad acting. Or then again, maybe not. In the last half hour or so there’s some vaguely chilling stuff about a supercomputer trying to take over the world (a plot used to better effect in other movies). But for the most part this is a stiffly-written tale of a math nerd who ignores his son until the lad ends up befriending a potentially-dangerous automaton. Mildly amusing