Good entertainment all round

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 1999)

This wasn't what I'd expected at all. I haven't seen a general certificate film for years through frustration at the corny over commercialised cynical tripe dished out by the Disney corporations of the cinema world, but I really enjoyed this animated feature.
A small boy befriends an alien killing machine robot and changes his ways in 1950s USA, with all the paranoia over the Russians, the Cubans and Nuclear War in the background.
This is a delightful little story as the boy and his mother have a government agent move in on them and bully the boy, Hogarth, as the army tries to destroy the giant alien machine.
Most enjoyable was the comical parody of the 'duck and cover' informational films, which was quite funny and almost Ren and Stimpy-esque.