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March 20, 2005
Short Review : ROBOTS [Mov] [Eng]
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This short review is written by Funn Lim. You can find this review in Reviews > Movies.
"Robots is a movie I desperately want to like because of the idea of it but at the end of the day, it just wasn't that good. It was, dare I say it? .... boring. "
Released in
2005
Produced By
Not by Pixar, definitely not by Dreamworks SKG. By the same team who made the funnier but really not that great Ice Age.
Genre
Computer animated feature length movie
Voices
Halle Berry .... Cappy (voice)
Lucille Bliss .... Pigeon Lady (voice)
Terry Bradshaw .... Broken Arm Bot (voice)
Jim Broadbent .... Madame Gasket (voice)
Mel Brooks .... Bigweld (voice)
Amanda Bynes .... Piper (voice)
Drew Carey .... Crank (voice)
Jennifer Coolidge .... Aunt Fanny (voice)
Dylan Denton .... Youngest Rodney (voice)
Will Denton .... Young Rodney (voice)
Marshall Efron .... Lamppost/Toilet Bot/Bass Drum/Microphone (voice)
Damien Fahey .... Stage Announcer (voice)
Lowell Ganz .... Mr. Gasket (voice)
Paul Giamatti .... Tim the Gate Guard (voice)
Dan Hedaya .... Mr. Gunk (voice)
Jackie Hoffman .... Water Cooler (voice)
James Earl Jones .... Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)
Greg Kinnear .... Ratchet (voice)
Jay Leno .... Fire Hydrant (voice)
Natasha Lyonne .... Loretta Geargrinder (voice)
Brian McFadden .... Trashcan Bot (voice)
Ewan McGregor .... Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
Tim Nordquist .... Tin Man (voice)
Jansen Panettiere .... Younger Rodney (voice)
Al Roker .... Mailbox (voice)
Alan Rosenberg .... Jack Hammer (voice)
Stephen Tobolowsky .... Bigmouth Executive/Forge (voice)
Stanley Tucci .... Herb Copperbottom (voice)
Chris Wedge .... (voice)
Dianne Wiest .... Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Harland Williams .... Lug (voice)
Robin Williams .... Fender (voice)
Crawford Wilson .... Young Rodney (voice)
Lara Cody .... Additional Voices (voice)
Cooper Cowgill .... Additional Voices (voice)
David Crommett .... Additional Voices (voice)
Darin De Paul .... Additional Voices (voice) (as Darin DePaul)
Dann Fink .... Additional Voices (voice)
Timothy Gulan .... Additional Voices (voice)
Alexander Haney .... Additional Voices (voice)
Angela Haney .... Additional Voices (voice)
Ray Iannicelli .... Additional Voices (voice)
Sondra James .... Additional Voices (voice)
Vanessa Lemonides .... Additional Voices (voice)
Anthony J. Lewis Jr. .... Additional Voices (voice)
Marcus Maurice .... Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Perito .... Additional Voices (voice)
Kristin Reeves .... Additional Voices (voice)
David Rossmer .... Additional Voices (voice)
Lyla Stone .... Additional Voices (voice)
Bruce Winant .... Additional Voices (voice)
Plot
Taken from IMDB.com
Even in a world populated entirely by mechanical beings Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor) is considered a genius inventor. Rodney dreams of two things, making the world a better place and meeting his idol, the master inventor Bigweld (Brooks). On his journey he encounters Cappy (Halle Berry), a beautiful executive `bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet (Kinnear) who locks horns with Rodney, and a group of misfit `bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender (Williams) and Piper Pinwheeler (Bynes).
Comments
I really want to like this animated feature. I really do. It has the story of a very polite and well mannered underdog, it has an assortment of really quirky characters, a very interesting storyline and a very clean cut type of story. No in jokes, not fart jokes (ok, maybe a few), no spoofing of this movie or that story like the other about that green ogre. I want to like this movie because the voices did well, especially the increasingly handsome Ewan McGregor (haven't heard from him from some time, I am bored with Jude Law). The thing is it's just too shallow. It has a big story, an even bigger heart to make it good but somehow it just falls flat. It's short, I think less than an hour and a half but it felt like an eternity. Like that over expanded scene of how Rodney travels from the station to the city and on the way meeting Fender, then the almost last scene where he and his gangs like Transformers fighting the bigger, newer robots and somewhere in between where he met Big Weld. It was too long, too draggy and because everybody seems to look like the same colour, rather confusing. And the story was inadequate in the sense that why Big Weld was hiding in retirement? We know why because we assume but not more was explained to actually how that younger, meaner robot, Ratchet could possibly convince Big Weld to retire. Something was just not right with this movie. Even Robin Williams, ever funny and really the only reason to watch Alladdin fell flat. His so called funny scenes like Singing In The Oil scene and his impersonation of Britney Spears came out of nowhere, looking desperate just to get some laughs when they weren't funny. I find his Bender very annoying and somehow underdeveloped. The only nice aspect of this movie, and very watchable is Rodney Copperbottom himself and the very first few scenes about his birth, how he wanted to become an inventor and his relationship with his father, voiced wonderfully by Stanley Tucci. Halle Berry was simply wasted or rather wallflower in here, Amanda Bynes as Piper was just simply of not much use. Greg Kinnear as Ratchet wasn't evil enough, he was just too into what his mom was saying and his mom wasn't even interesting as a villain. I find her scenes boring, annoying and too cartoonish. I have a feeling these days animation or computer animation is all about gathering the biggest names in the movie industry and paying all too much attention to the animation BUT very little on the story. For this I must say this; Pixar rules because they're not too obssessed with getting the biggest names, they get people perfect for that particular character, animation always superb to the point of awe inspiring and the story, though simple to understand but has such depth and meaning, often Pixar is a success is because the story is it itself memorable. And they don't have so many people or characters in one scene or spoofing this or fart jokes that.
Robots is a movie I desperately want to like because of the idea of it but at the end of the day, it just wasn't that good. It was, dare I say it? .... boring.
Plus Points
The graphics, especially the robots looking very much like their real human counterparts and the idea of the story. Ewan McGregor, always good in anything he does, even when he is not appearing on screen.
Minus Points
I think I have said it pretty clearly; no direction, unrealised story, unexplained plot points and some very draggy and unnecessary, unconnected scenes.
Verdict
Little ones will love it and may learn a thing or two about following your dreams, dream big and all. But as a movie in itself, I am sorry to say, I don't hate it because there is nothing to hate about a movie who has the best of intentions to give a good story. But the entire execution of the story was somehow side stepped by the presence of too many unnecessary character and in the end, it was a complete boring mess. Go watch The Incredibles again, buy Finding Nemo, search for A Bug's Life or Toy Story or Monsters Inc or simply save that money of yours to watch Pixar's Cars. I am supposed to cheer for Rodney but in the end, I was glad to be out of the cinema.
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