Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons
G | 30 March 2007 (USA)
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Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

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Stevecorp

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Bereamic

Awesome Movie

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Calum Hutton

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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Raymond Sierra

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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bettycjung

3/16/18. A decent animated Disney movie that kids will probably enjoy. A good time-travel premise makes this a fun watch.

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SnoopyStyle

Lewis is a 12-year-old orphan and an unrelenting inventor. After 124 failed adoption interviews, he decides to find his mother instead. There are no clues other than the one in his head. He decides to invent a machine to read memories and thereby find a memory of her face when he was a baby. At the school science fair, he encounters 13-year-old Wilbur Robinson who claims to be a time cop hunting the Bowler Hat Guy. The Bowler Hat Guy is after Lewis' memory reading machine and wants to claim it as his own.There are some interesting ideas and a time-loopy story. The Robinson family is a little too crazy which isn't always fun. There is sometimes an overloading of wacky when animated movies want to stamp the word fun on the screen. It doesn't help that the story requires a bit of effort to work out giving it a sense of chaos.Part of the movie is to highlight Walt Disney's words "Keep Moving Forward." I'm sure it was in the original requirements of the movie. It's not a catchy phrase. It's funny that Rob Thomas' song "Little Wonders" starts with the words "Let it go". Somehow, Disney eventually landed on a catchier phrase. Also the confrontation with DOR-15/Doris ends too weakly. Lewis could have done that anytime after finding out that Cornelius Robinson invented Doris. The time-loop story is a little difficult which adds to the chaos of the movie. Overall, I like the movie and its concepts.

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Anssi Vartiainen

Young Lewis is an orphan and a child genius, who nevertheless struggles with everyday life, especially with the prospect of getting adopted. Not helping the matters is that none of his inventions have worked so far. But then one day he meets young Wilbur Robinson, who whisks him away on an adventure unlike anything he has ever experienced before.It's the 47th Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and only their second fully CGI-animated one. And it definitely shows. It's not as bad as Chicken Little, but the textures and the character models have definitely aged less than gracefully, though it has some neat background designs and colours. But, that could be forgiven if the story was good and captivating. It's not. Though, to be fair, neither is it offensively bad and the message of determination and endurance is a good one, but the fact remains that the characters are not built well enough for you to care about them. Plus, there are way too many of them. The eponymous Robinsons family is huge and we get introduced to each and every one of them. Only for the film to do nothing with them. Absolutely nothing. Wilbur is pretty much the only one of them to have any personality or character development beyond the initial quirk.Now, that being said, there is one good character in this film. The villain. The Bowler Hat Guy is a lot of fun. Not the most menacing or diabolical of villains, but he's a breath of fresh air, being both a coward and a total moron. Everything he does in this movie, starting from the way he looks, is hilarious.The bare bones of a good film are here. The late 00s CGI animation lent itself well towards futuristic and colourful designs, the message is a good one and the villain is certainly a lot of fun. Unfortunately, they crammed too much in, didn't let the story breathe and in the end ended up with a product that's certainly not worthy of the legacy of the studio, the name of which was once synonymous with magic.

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Charles Herold (cherold)

This energetic but rather forgettable movie is nicely animated and has a fairly interesting story, but it's not especially funny. If you're expecting something as good as The Incredibles or Up then you won't get it.It strikes me as a good movie for kids. There's a lot of running around and a focus on the sort of antic humor that seems to appeal more to kids than adults. It's a very broad sort of humor. Had I seen this movie when I was ten, I think I probably would have enjoyed it a great deal. But for an adult, I wouldn't say this is a great choice. Although if you like broad, antic humor, perhaps age is not a consideration.

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