Never convincing or compelling enough to stop us from keep moving forward past its ultimate position on the video store shelves
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
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Reviews Counted:132
Fresh:87
Rotten:45
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Meet the Robinsons is a visually impressive children's animated film marked by a story of considerable depth.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Animated, Animation, Science-Fiction, Time Travel, Theatrical Release, Disney Film, Families, Animated Characters, Animated Worlds, Science Fiction
US Box Office: $97,690,955
Synopsis: Based on William Joyce's beautifully illustrated children's book A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON, this lively computer-animated Disney film follows the adventures of Lewis (voiced by Jordan Fry and... Based on William Joyce's beautifully illustrated children's book A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON, this lively computer-animated Disney film follows the adventures of Lewis (voiced by Jordan Fry and Daniel Hansen), a young orphaned inventor who is determined to find his birth mother by using a "memory scanner," a device of his own creation. When Lewis meets a boy from the year 2037 named Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman), they begin a charmingly strange time-traveling journey that involves Wilbur's eccentric family, bowler hats bent on world domination, song-and-dance frogs, and a frustrated Tyrannosaurus Rex. Boasting the debut of cutting-edge 3D technology, MEET THE ROBINSONS is helmed by first-time feature-film director Stephen J. Anderson, who also voices numerous characters, including the mustachioed villain, Bowler Hat Guy. (Other notable vocal actors include Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Adam West, Harland Williams, and Laurie Metcalf.) ROBINSONS also marks Pixar head John Lasseter's first outing as an executive producer on a non-Pixar movie, resulting in a film that features some of that company's signature energy and wit, but stands on its own outside of that universe. While ROBINSONS' literally all-over-the-place plot can be a little difficult to follow at times, its stunning retro-futuristic visuals and amiably wacky characters easily keep viewers entertained. [More]
Starring: Angela Bassett, Adam West, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams
Starring: Angela Bassett, Adam West, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Tom Kenny, Daniel Hansen, Wesley Singerman, Jordan Fry, Rufus Wainwright
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
Screenwriter: Jon Bernstein
Story: William Joyce
Producer: Dorothy McKim
Composer: Danny Elfman
Screenwriter: Michelle Spitz
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Reviews for Meet the Robinsons
Loosely based on a children's book by William Joyce, the film does a lot of twiddling with time.
The characters are beautifully drawn and engaging, and in the madcap world in which Lewis is taken, he feels more at home than he has ever felt. And this weird and scintillating family shows him genuine affection
Flashes of wit and whimsy notwithstanding, the future is just as sentimentalized as the past.
A baby being left on the doorstep of an orphanage has been done many times, yet Meet the Robinsons makes it feel new again, and not just because of the fantastic 3-D technology.
A hilarious and adorable science fiction film with great animation, top notch voice work, and sharp humor...
...the movie possesses an unusually bright and colorful sense of style that immediately sets it apart from its increasingly plentiful brethren.
Pleasant but insubstantial, and with characters whose eccentricities feel just a tad forced and artificial, this is a mild diversion of a film.
Despite its obvious shortcomings, Meet the Robinsons left me wanting a little more. It's been a long, long time since a Disney film without a little lamp logo at the beginning has made me feel that way.
...a movie with its heart in the right place and its computers heading off in all different directions.
A film of terribly alienating character design (so many pinchy faces and tiny eyes!) blended with very plastic-y backgrounds.
The film has a freewheeling, quick-hit absurdism closer to Airplane! than Aladdin.
This shrine to Disney is really the world's most overstuffed Hanna-Barbera cartoon, right down to its Gargamel-patterned villain.
Prone to migraine headaches, I wish the frenzied pace of 'Meet the Robinsons' had been toned down. Still, youngsters will probably love the ride.
A breath of fresh air after 2006's The Wild and 2005's Chicken Little.
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