{"id":1737,"date":"2008-09-15T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2018-03-15T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:40:01","slug":"movie-review-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2008\/09\/15\/movie-review-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review – Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Director :<\/strong>\u00a0 Chris Wedge
\nYear Of Release :<\/strong>\u00a0 2005
\nPrincipal Cast :<\/strong>\u00a0 Voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carrey, Jennifer Coolidge, Harland Williams, Jim Broadbent, Dianne West, Stanley Tucci, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Giamatti, Dan Hedaya.
\nApprox Running Time :<\/strong>\u00a0 90 Minutes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Rodney the robot sets out to make a name for himself in the big city, but runs into trouble when his idol, Bigweld, turns out to be not-so-nice.
\nWhat we think :\u00a0 <\/strong>Dazzlingly animated, Robots<\/em> is charming, effortless children’s fare. The story offers little for adults to find entertaining past a single viewing, but younger kids will want to spend hours checking out the visual smorgasbord this film has to offer.
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After the success of Ice Age<\/em>, 20th Century Fox asked Blue Sky Studios chief Chris Wedge to create something else for the studio to put onto the market. Of course, Ice Age 2<\/em> started production almost immediately, but the studio also began work on this little gem, Robots<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Just like any city in the world….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a world where animated movies are measured by Pixar success and Shrek<\/em> commercialism, Robots<\/em> is an understated and worthwhile exercise in family entertainment, neither blazingly spectacular like Shrek<\/em>, nor despairingly hideous like Happily Never After<\/em>. Robots<\/em> seeks to simply provide entertainment, without trying to moralize anything particular. There are no hidden subtexts here, as far as I can tell. The moral of the story is a rehash of the old \u201cif you want it bad enough, keep going until you get it\u201d adage, with our main character struggling against his inner demons not to give up and go home, when all hope is lost. Rodney Copperbottom is an idealistic young robot (voiced by Ewan MacGregor) who sets out from home to make it in the big city. He is an inventor, you see, and wants to bake an impression at the main industrial complex of the planet (whatever planet this is, anyway) Bigweld Industries. Bigweld Industries is run by philanthropic capitalist Bigweld, (voiced by Mel Brooks) who has been thrown into retirement by usurper Ratchet and his scheming mother.<\/p>\n

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Rodney says goodbye to his folks…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Halle Berry voices Rodney\u2019s love interest, Cappa, a character that is utterly redundant to the main story, yet seems to be shoehorned in to provide an extra character for the final showdown between the goodies and the baddies. Along for the ride is Robin \u201cI\u2019ll do any voice you want\u201d Williams, whoring out his talent on a sub-par character with little redeeming value whatsoever. The character of Fender is there for comedic value, however oftentimes the clunky comedy is at odds with the more seriously toned script. Williams would be better served trying his hand at more serious film roles, something he\u2019s better at (see Insomnia and One Hour Photo as examples) and stay away from a genre he\u2019s pretty much mined out.<\/p>\n

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The story is reasonably simple, meaning it won\u2019t really worry youngsters, and the action moves at a fairly rapid pace, with plenty of manic eye candy swirling and sliding across the screen to captivate even the most attention deficient little ones. Older viewers will find the film a kind of funny, Sunday arvo film: good at the time, but forgettable afterwards. Perhaps this is the films biggest letdown: it\u2019s almost a second tier film trying to be top of the rung, but the story doesn\u2019t hold together, and the characters seem a little slipshod in terms of execution script-wise. That said, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a better film to simply entertain the kids for 90 minutes, and this film manages to do just that quite easily.<\/p>\n

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