Fun 1950s Alien Robot

Rating: 6/10 (23 February 2015)

A boy makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
At first, I wasn't really sold on this film because I thought the animation style was a little bit cheesy. I was reminded of Don Bluth and such films as "All Dogs Go To Heaven". Not that Bluth made bad films, but by 1999 we were expecting a lot more from our animators.
Anyway, my concerns on animation were overshadowed by a genuinely good film with some fun characters. Not a great film, but one that light-heartedly looks at the 1950s and 1960s Cold War era. This is a satire on a child's level. In some ways, it has a similar feel as Joe Dante's "Matinee" (1993) and could make a good double feature.