I had watched this movie when I was younger, but didn’t enjoy it then because of one character who bothered me. It had been quite some time since my last viewing, and my recollection of the story was hazy, so I decided to watch it again recently to jog my memory and see if my feelings about it were different now. Sadly, I still don't care for this film and wasn’t particularly struck by it. The pacing felt slow at …

It's a pleasant, straightforward film for families. People living in an apartment building facing destruction by property developers find their wishes granted with the arrival of small, robotic beings from another world. *Batteries Not Included* feels like it belongs among other fantasy films about aliens from the 1980s; while it shows its age, it remains above mediocrity because of its inherent appeal. There's…