They say - "Children should be seen, but not heard." Well - In The Invisible Boy it seems to be the other way around - "Children are heard, but not seen."
From my perspective - When it comes to the likes of children (in this case movie-children), I sure wish to hell that it could be both ways, meaning - Children should "not" be seen, and "not" heard, both, at the same time. Yeah. Now, wouldn't that be just ideal?
Set in California (in and around the Stoneman Institute of Mathematics), The Invisible Boy's sucky, little, Sci-Fi story (from 1957) deals with the attempted "World Take Over" by a massive, supremely arrogant, "thinking" Computer that's obviously gotten way-way too big for its britches.
In this flick's story the institute's top mathematician's son, 10 year-old Timmy, is, in a sense, kidnapped by this "brainy" computer. For this computer to pull off its hare-brain scheme to rule the world it immediately renders Timmy invisible by re-adjusting his index-of-refraction. (Yes. It's really that simple to do when you're a big, frickin', hot-shot computer)
The computer, of course, can speak and it refuses to re-animate the boy until its "high'n'mighty" demands for human co-operation (in its quest to rule the world) are met to its pompous satisfaction.
Personally, I hate "smart" computer movies such as The Invisible Boy. I mean, this particular movie was clearly intended for people (children, I guess) who just don't bother to think things through, or to think sensibly about things, at all.
Robby the Robot (the hero from Forbidden Planet) was given a pivotal role in this flick.
Unfortunately, this time Robby the Robot was bad. I thought that doing this to Robby really sucked. Robby the Robot was a cool robot-dude and he surely deserved to be on the hero's side of things in this flick, too.
From my perspective - When it comes to the likes of children (in this case movie-children), I sure wish to hell that it could be both ways, meaning - Children should "not" be seen, and "not" heard, both, at the same time. Yeah. Now, wouldn't that be just ideal?
Set in California (in and around the Stoneman Institute of Mathematics), The Invisible Boy's sucky, little, Sci-Fi story (from 1957) deals with the attempted "World Take Over" by a massive, supremely arrogant, "thinking" Computer that's obviously gotten way-way too big for its britches.
In this flick's story the institute's top mathematician's son, 10 year-old Timmy, is, in a sense, kidnapped by this "brainy" computer. For this computer to pull off its hare-brain scheme to rule the world it immediately renders Timmy invisible by re-adjusting his index-of-refraction. (Yes. It's really that simple to do when you're a big, frickin', hot-shot computer)
The computer, of course, can speak and it refuses to re-animate the boy until its "high'n'mighty" demands for human co-operation (in its quest to rule the world) are met to its pompous satisfaction.
Personally, I hate "smart" computer movies such as The Invisible Boy. I mean, this particular movie was clearly intended for people (children, I guess) who just don't bother to think things through, or to think sensibly about things, at all.
Robby the Robot (the hero from Forbidden Planet) was given a pivotal role in this flick.
Unfortunately, this time Robby the Robot was bad. I thought that doing this to Robby really sucked. Robby the Robot was a cool robot-dude and he surely deserved to be on the hero's side of things in this flick, too.