If you had not already heard that the eponymous hero is an android, or that the rather unsyntactical acronym stands for Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform, you would have to wait a long time for this movie to assert itself as science fiction. Because the hero is a child, and because his mellow Ozzie-and-Harriet foster parents have no clue to his origins, the whole business brings to mind those Disney live-action wonder-boy fantasies like The World's Greatest Athlete, especially when the little fellow hits a baseball a mile on his first swing. But his baseball experiences, among other experiences, teach him the useful adult lesson that fallibility in human affairs is sometimes more efficient than perfection; and the idea that emotion can be picked up by a computer-brain as readily as arithmetic is a useful science-fiction lesson too. However, once science fiction has stepped forward in the persons of Daryl's "real parents" -- that is, the scientists who created him under contract to those handy villains at the Pentagon -- the movie switches gears for a mechanical (and none-too-smoothly-running) half-hour chase. This will eventually arrive at a happy ending, by God, and it doesn't care how many corners it has to cut to get there. With Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, and Michael McKean; directed by Simon Wincer. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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