Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
A filming-by-numbers mix of small-town nostalgia, soapy family drama and high-tech sfx, this Dreary Android Runaway Yarn Lags way behind the Spielberg thoroughbreds it tries so hard to ape.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
If there is a subtext to ''D.A.R.Y.L.,'' and I'm not entirely sure there is, it's that one should always be kind to a computer, because a computer might be somebody's brother.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Second half of the picture is the most far-fetched and also the most fun ...
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
To be sure, we`re not talking about a bad movie, just one that could have been so much better.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr 2014
fresh:
There's an intrinsic emotional pull to this earnest tale of parents in search of a child.