The Invisible Boy

Poster tagline: THE SCIENCE-MONSTER THAT COULD DESTROY THE WORLD!!! The technical aspects and overall concept are cute and even funny in some parts. Particularly in the middle passage, after the boy's disappearance, the pleasantly naive effects, when the invisible Tommy performs mischief on adults, everything culminating in a bizarre bedroom scene with the dad fighting with his son – and it looks, judging by the movements in the air, as if he had some kind of malarial attack. The filmmakers made a short story about the unfortunate influence of a computer on the fate of a little boy and eventually the whole world that originally didn’t feature a robot. But after the huge success of Forbidden Planet in 1956, Robby the robot was very popular, and so he was pushed by the producers into this film, under the motto "strike while the iron is hot". Robby duly enjoyed his position as the main star, the scope of his role is not insignificant (he’s the one who makes Tommy invisible), especially in the final scene, when he faces a shower of rifles, machine guns and rocket launchers, and a fence is not an obstacle for him; he’s crucial for the overall plot. Technically and visually, taking into account the period and the genre, the film is on a decent level (big sets of a giant mega-computer, a hovercraft, a rocket launch, Robby himself) and it can be said that this harmless flick hit the mark for me this time. (02/17/2013)