Way back when, a local channel where I lived at the time would air family centric movies on Sunday afternoons. One of these movies, which I was fortunate enough to catch a few times was Magic Boy. I'd first heard about it from friends at school before I stumbled on to it and I absolutely loved it. I didn't remember anything exact about it except that it was distributed by MGM, so I figured it must have had some kind of theatrical run. When I remembered it not too long ago and decided to look it up, I found out that it was one of the first anime movies to make it stateside. Maybe I'm looking in the right places or it's due to age but it's not a movie that I ever heard of again beforeI decided to find out about it on my own. We must have rented that thing half a dozen times when I was a kid. It came with an Itsy Bitsy Spider short that was developed into a series on USA. It was one of those misfit 90s animated movies that I loved as a kid
but it would be interesting to see how it holds up today (Tone Loc as a stinky, neglected baby probably won't be as funny now). I remember my grandma not liking that I watched it because of questionable content (I think it may have been PG-13). It sure was one heck of an odd choice for an animated movie though. Robin Harris wasn't exactly a well known guy among kids; The only reason I knew him was because he was the dad in House Party. It seemed a lot better suited for a live-action romantic comedy though I can't imagine Harris being casted in his own movie if it was. He was probably dead by the time the movie was completed though.