Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Family, Robots
Tagline: You can shine no matter what you're made of.
Plot: The pixel-happy production company Blue Sky follows its successful feature ICE AGE with more animated antics in ROBOTS. Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) is a talented inventor who hopes to make his fortune by moving to Robot City and working among the nuts and bolts of the robotics industry. Rodney fantasizes about building robots for his boyhood hero and master inventor Big Weld (Mel Brooks), but when he meets him, Rodney's dream threatens to turn rusty. Big Weld reveals that his company is now being run by the evil Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear), a merciless moneymaker who wants to rid the world of the antiquated robots that clutter up the streets of Robot City. This leaves Rodney's aspirations needing a major oil change, and with little chance of finding work, he feels about as useful as a broken spare part. So he takes to the streets, where he finds some unlikely salvation in a group of robots lead by Fender (Robin Williams). Fender urges Rodney to help save them from the scrap heap, while Ratchet and his company create threatening new policies on robot reconstruction. The ensuing action leads to a breathtaking set of adventures in the futuristic city. A fun, dizzying delight, ROBOTS benefits from the many voices of Robin Williams, who is the perfect comic
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 "Robots" has a plot that centers on the availability of spare parts, and uses a lot of them itself, borrowed from other movies.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
...Robots builds a fun story of hope and adventure filled with punch dialog and sharp comedic timing.  --Robert Strohmeyer (FilmCritic.com)
Great job, Robin…you saved this film from being a truly unmemorable affair, in my opinion. Ironically, lots of people will hate the movie because of his over-the-top nature, so I guess it all depends what you’re looking for. 5/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
“Robots” is much more extravagant in its visual effects, of course; in fact, on that level it’s fairly successful. C--Frank Swietek
It’s worth a matinee as it’s enjoyable waste of time before it’s forgotten completely.  --Eric Lurio
"Robots'' is a film with the soul of a pinball machine.  --James Verniere
... there are a few amazing action sequences set in the mechanical robot world that rival anything we've ever seen, at least in terms of technical proficiency and state-of-the-art wonderment. But where are the characters to make it all MEAN something? Watching strangers on a roller coaster isn't nearly as much fun as watching your friends. C+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
We're living in a golden age of animation, and "Robots" is 24-karat stuff, even if it has a soul of tin...The sophistication of its humor is at the level of "The Simpsons," and the computer animation is a wonder, down to every scratch and screw.  --Kyle Smith (New York Post)
Fanciful animation, star cast can't help 'Robots' salvage rusty story C+--Robert Denerstein
It's smart, imaginative and visually fluid. But there also is in "Robots" an underlying darkness and a sense that there's something cool in its coldness.  --Ed Blank
Though it's often funny and technically impressive, "Robots" falls a little short of the accomplishments of "Toy Story" and "Monsters, Inc." in that regard. B---Jack Garner (TheJournalNews)
Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing. --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Robots gets its hands on the perfect high concept, and then -- like so many other films before it -- never thinks to add a decent story...There's creativity to spare here. Couldn't they have saved a little for something other than the scenery? C--Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)
Robots isn’t bad at all. There are some fun moments, the animation is astounding, and the heart is in the right place, but sadly there is no brain on board here and you have to settle with the simple pleasure of the gag, which for some will prove not to be enough anymore. 5/10--'The Grim Ringler' (JackassCritics.com)
As a pure story of human interest, Robots falls just slightly short of the more personal tale of The Incredibles, though it's certainly superior in its rendering of a believable physical world. --Robert Strohmeyer (MovieWeb)
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 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Gangs of New York |
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 | Drew Carey
The Aristocrats, The Big Tease, Freaky Friday |
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 | Dan Hedaya
The Usual Suspects, Mulholland Dr., Alien: Resurrection |
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| ...“Robots” provides a little something for each and every member of the family. The writing is smart, the animation is the best we’ve yet to see, and even though we’re talking about robots here, there’s a real heart and soul at the center of this terrific animated movie. A- --Rebecca Murray
The jokes may come from all directions and Robots may be one of the most beautiful computer animated films ever made, but without sound characters and an original story, it’ll go through you like a Diet Coke/Cranberry Juice cocktail.  --Uri Lessing (eFilmCritic.com)
...animation, it’s brilliant. If only the story was as sharp. --David Cornelius (eFilmCritic.com)
Robots nails the message – and it’s a worthy one – but the magic’s missing in action. --Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle)
The look of the movie is all it had going for it though, but in comparison to other computer animated features. Maybe I should clarify that, see, Robots, did not have the grown-up sensibility that all these movies have had in the past. It really lacked the witty, otherwordly comparisons of Toy Story, Shrek, and even Ice Age. B--Zak Santucci (TheCinemaSource)
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