Robots (2005)

Directed by

Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge

Genre

comedy film, fantasy film, adventure film, family film, science fiction film, slapstick

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4,960 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young robot inventor named Rodney Copperbottom moves to Robot City to work for his hero. He uncovers a scheme to scrap old robots and must find a way to stop it.

energeticwhimsicalupbeatcolorfullovablesentimentalfamily-friendlyfast-paced

What happens

Robots is a 2005 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and written by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios, it stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey and Robin Williams. The story follows ambitious robot inventor Rodney Copperbottom, who seeks employment at the company of his idol Bigweld in Robot City, but discovers a plot by its new CEO Phineas T. Ratchet and his mother to forcibly upgrade the city's populace and eradicate struggling robots, known as "outmodes". Development of the film began in 2000, following a failed attempt by Wedge and children's author William Joyce to adapt Joyce's children's book Santa Calls. They instead decided to create an original story based on robots. The project was approved by executive producer Chris Meledandri in 2001 and production began the next year. Robots premiered at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, on March 6, 2005, and was released in the United States on March 11 by 20th Century Fox. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its humor, animation and performances, while its story and characters were deemed somewhat formulaic. The film was commercially successful, grossing $262.5 million worldwide against a $75–80 million budget. A sequel was discussed but never produced due to the studio shifting focus to its flagship franchise, Ice Age. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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