"Creepy."
This debut film from Locksmith Animation leans heavily on E.T. and Big Hero 6, as motherless and friendless middle-schooler Barney is desperate to get a 'Best Friend Out Of A Box', a robotic social-media-connected companion that everyone else has, but ends up with a damaged B-Bot as a birthday present, which Barney - ironically - has to teach about friendship and fitting into the world. In spite of some jarringly broad-strokes comedy stereotyping in Barney's East-European grandmother, Ron's Gone Wrong is delightful, random, relentlessly wacky and unpredictable, with a sweet central story, thinly-veiled swipes at tech giants and the role of technology in young people's lives, and a lively, colourful style that engages from start to finish.
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