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.
D.A.R.Y.L. has generally received mixed reviews.
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D.A.R.Y.L. was released in 1985 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 94 reviews, giving D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 38%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed D.A.R.Y.L. a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 60%, D.A.R.Y.L. is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1985, which stands at 59%.
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