SnoopyStyle The Stoneman Institute of Mathematics under the military is developing a Supercomputer. The military is launching a secret satellite. Timmie Merinoe is an average ten year old. His father tries to improve his intelligence by bring him to the Supercomputer. Timmie improves to such an extent that he is able to reassemble Robbie the Robot which arrived from over 300 years in the future. Robbi helps turn him invisible. Meanwhile, the Supercomputer intends to take over the world using the military satellite.There is a lot of nonchalant going on in this movie. None of the adults seem affected by a time-traveling robot especially the father. He treats the invisibility like an inconvenient prank. At times, it's laughable. This was probably strictly directed at kids. Reasoning is rudimentary and so is the acting. This is nowhere near the classic Forbidden Planet. There is a limited connection to the iconic movie which is more than simply reusing Robbie the Robot. It's cool to see this for a fan of Forbidden Planet but it's a weak movie on its own.

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.

horsegoggles At every turn the extraordinary is dismissed with casual abandon. I think a formula was used to determine the dialog in this film, especially where interaction between the boy and his parents are concerned. What would a normal person be to expected to say in a given situation, use an opposite response. I focus on dialog because dialog is what I have the most trouble with in this film. The few times I have seen this I have wondered at what seems to be totally disconnected reactions to strikingly bizarre situations, and I have come to the conclusion that it was done on purpose. I have no insight into the minds of writers or directors, but considering the weak story, something needed to be done to make a potentially really boring plot engender at least a little interest. Even at the risk of making a silly movie. Another possibility is that everyone came to work loaded every day. I don't know how to rate it. I will need a time machine to go into the past and become invisible so that I can sit in on the planning of this one.

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.