The Movie: Wow, I can't believe I never watched this before! This is an animated movie from 1999, and although it is really great, It never really achieved much commercial success. That's pretty unfortunate, as I feel this movie told a great story that I got into. Plus the robot is really cool too! It features the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., and Vin Diesel provided the voice of the big robot.

It was cute, it was fun, it was interesting, and it was something you could get into. And it had a very non-Disney feel to it in many aspects, from the look of it to the plot, and everything in between. I definitely recommend this movie. One thing of interest (at least to me) is that Des McAnuff is listed as one of the film's producers. He is the artistic director over at the La Jolla Playhouse (not to mention being a multiple-Tony award winning director), and he just seems to keep popping up in the strangest places.

The DVD: I have to admit that I didn't root around the DVD too much, but I did watch the movie itself. This is another one of those Warner Brothers dual-sided discs with a standard 4:3 pan and scan version on one side, and an anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1 version on the other. I actually wish more movies would come this way that way folks with standard TV's who don't like letterboxed movies can have their way, and the other folks that don't mind the black bars, or have widescreen TV's can have their way too.

Special features. Hmmm... well I know there is a theatrical trailer because I watched it. There is also a making-of documentary which I did not watch, and I think there may possibly be a director's commentary track as well. But yeah. Good movie.