Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Invisible Boy (1957)

MGM
Directed by Herman Hoffman
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)

It is revealed that the scientist that invented Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet had a time machine and visited the future. He made it back to Earth with the robot, which sits in pieces in a forgotten lab. An annoying kid gets hypnotized by a super computer and puts Robby back together again. Robby is reprogrammed and becomes evil Robby, a pawn in the super computer's plan to annihilate all living things. The invisible angle is both juvenile and unnecessary, just a gimmick to throw in scenes of the boy spying on his parents or getting revenge on a bully. They take away screen time from the far more interesting computer taking over the world story, which unfortunately is left underdeveloped.

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