does all the things that mobile phones do but also it's your best friend. barney is socially awkward, he wants a b—bot, his parents won't get him one, finally they end up getting him a damaged b—bot so that he can fit in with all the other friends. the thing is that b—bot can't connect to the mainframe to bubble, so therefore, it doesn't have the friendship programme. it also doesn't have any of the protocols that keep it safe, so it behaves terribly. he's going to take it back, but then he realises that, actually, a robot that thinks for itself and has to learn about friendship is actually probably a better thing than a kind of, you know, the clockwork orangey, "oh, yes, all these things, they just do what they're told." i thought it was really good fun. it's an entertaining, you know, family film in as much as there's lots of fun stuff to watch, but there's also a lot of great satirical stuff about big tech companies, and harvesting your data and the fact that they are completely unscrupulous, in some cases. that is one argument. yes, other arguments are available. you've got to have something for the adults as well as the children. but the nice thing about this was it didn'tjust feel like what you were getting was gags